Chris' Christian Blog

January 15, 2022

Prompt: "God revealed something to me this morning. Judges 14:20 stood out to me.

But Samson’s wife was given to his companion, whom he used as his friend.

I find it interesting that it says he used him as his friend.

I sent this to my pastor and it got kind of deep. You see? I have been even trying to friend, friends of friends on Facebook. I have been trying to pay attention to every possible contact I can make. That is good to do in my business, but the Holy Spirit said to me this morning, “Are you just using people or are you truly willing to be a good friend and help each and every one of them?” I had to think about that for a minute and truly consider it. I want to have a right heart with God and a heart to serve others and to do good. Yes, I have fallen short and for that I have repented. I just really want to be successful. I want to be my own boss. I like the freedom and flexibility. I want to truly help others with a right heart.

Let's examine ourselves and ask, "Am I being a true friend to everyone I meet or am I just using them for selfish reasons?"'

I understand flooding social media. I have a page on social media that may as well be a public page. In fact, I believe when I get my student loans in a few weeks I may contact Facebook and see about doing a premium page as a local celebrity. My book is being published and it requires some work on my part. While my heart is not set on being a professional writer any longer since God called me to chaplaincy, I still want my book to sell. So I may talk to Facebook about doing a public page.

Now to the question at hand: "Am I being a true friend to everyone I meet or am I just using them for selfish reasons?"'

I try to love on everybody. That does not mean anything weird. It just means that as a chaplain my calling is to be "in the world but not of the world."

I am even considering taking a day out of my schedule to go to the local Walmart, armed with some tracts and a few bags of lollipops. I will buy a folding chair that I can carry with me. Then I will sit and give lollipops to the children as they come in and distribute tracts to their parents.

As a chaplain my job is to go into the world and minister. That ministry often includes people I will see only once. The impact of that one time however can be eternal whether they become Christian or not. Why? Because I made a memory that will last forever. Do you think those children I give lollipops to are ever going to forget me? More importantly, they will remember that it was a chaplain who gave it to them. Jesus gave them a lollipop. The parents will remember the love (and perhaps the hyper children.) The parents will remember that for that brief moment in time a chaplain took time out to love on them and their children. That makes a tremendous impact for Jesus.

I try to never "use" anybody. I spent a large part of my life leaching off of society because I had always been told that I would never be able to hold a job because I had "issues". I was diagnosed with ADHD as a child and initially spent four weeks in a psychiatric unit. That set up a pattern of psychiatric units and mooching off society that would plague me most of my life. Every time I took on work I would be talked or manipulated into losing it over my perceived disability. The fact is that I believe at the very outside I have Aspergers perhaps, which is a high functioning form of autism. I tend to be a little slow on the uptake sometimes and am very gullible. However I no longer see myself as "disabled." I hold two associate degrees and two bachelor's degrees. I am an honors student in my third year of graduate school at a prestigious university. So I am not disabled. I may be somewhere on the autism spectrum and I may have suffered a Traumatic Brain Injury, but I am not disabled. I am a child of the King. I am a prince. I can and will succeed if I live long enough. As I said, I used people for years thinking it was the only way to survive. I've broken out of that way of thinking. I no longer use people. I love on them and encourage them to succeed. If somebody does a job for me I try to pay them twice or three times what it is worth. When somebody does me a favor, I try to generously reward them. If it is on here, I give them copious amounts of gift points. I know that gift points actually have a monetary bearing. When I have the money I often buy a few million to give away and reward people with. Don't be surprised if you suddenly find you have have a few hundred thousand more gift points than you can account for. That is my way of saying thank you and letting you know I love you.

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