If You Forget to Clean Your Gun

              The title might sound crazy and that it isn't coming from me at all but there are times where ideas for these entries come from other people and other situations in life. I learn from other people and those people are encourages me with or without knowing it at times. You also might think that this entry is messed up because of the comparison I am going to be making but again it will make sense just in a strange way.
               Forgetting to clean your gun at times can be compared to forgetting to clean out or guard your heart or even checking it at times. There are signs for both and to do both things right and get a good outcome. For the gun, you want to be able to shoot what you are aiming at and hit it. For the heart, you want to be able to love and do it well to the people around you. If you forget to do something as little as clean the gun or put the bullets in, then it won't work right. Even if you do those things, it can still be block by the simplest of things. You might think you don't need to clean the inside overtime before you shoot or you can shoot so many times then you can clean it. That isn't true. I don't know much or if anything at all about guns. I am not there yet.
                But I do know a little something about love and God. Hear me out on this. You have to do little things to make the gun work, right? Same with Love, there are signs you need in your life and other people need to see in your life to know that you Love God with all your heart. I have 3 of those signs from the sermon last night. I will tell you I tried to wrap my mind around it while I was at church but I just couldn't without writing it down like I am now. Those 3 things you need are:

-Love for God and others.
-Obeying God's Commandments.
-Knowing that God has overcame the world. 

               The verses that were used were: 1 John 5:1-13. That chapter tells us how to clean our lives and live it our of Love. One of the many chapters and books that are in the Bible. Yet at the same time, we could have the signs of life in us but that doesn't mean we are alive. Just like it means the gun could look great on the outside, all nice and shiny, yet it is dirty on the inside as well. We can still be living but living as the world and not how God wants us to live in Love.

"It is possible for something to be alive and temporally not show any signs of life."

            Just like we are to the gun, we are the source that that gun needs to have to work. We need to be there to pull the trigger. God is our Source of Life. Enteral Life only comes from Jesus and nothing else. We might try to find other ways and things to be the source but if we know better, we always turn back To Jesus. This next saying really gets me because it makes me see how to grow and pursue deeper relationships and friendships.

"The mind and heart works together to trust and believe."

            If you don't keep those two things clean, then it is hard to trust or believe anyone around you. It is even hard to trust yourself. I have been there. I have doubted myself about what I have said or even done but I am getting better at it. I know now that both my heart and mind have to agree with each other. While I didn't understand what was going on until last night, it all makes sense on how I look at things and relationships. When both things agree, it does make it easier and gives you more peace about it. I'm not a hunter but I know during the hunts that those two things have to work together along with the gun to know when to pull the trigger. It is the same feeling. That same happy and rush feelings. Those feelings of you can't lose and when you make it, you are just overwhelmed. When you don't make it, you just feel like everything has been lost and it is your fault.
               You have to figure out right away what you did wrong. You look at you when very well it could have been the other person just wasn't ready or there was something wrong with the gun like not clean enough. I could do 3 page entry on this topic but I think I will stop this one here and type up another one. The point I want to get across in this entry is this:

"Be real with what you have, especially when you have given up so much, because you never know when it will touch someone's else life."