JohnnyBGamer

Wow, the past few days have been crazy! Took a quick trip out to California for my sister’s wedding. Had a good time hanging out with family and witnessing firsthand the behind the scenes drama a wedding provides. Good times! 🙂

Spent today resting up. Happened to watch the Microsoft E3 press conference…which was lame. The Kinect, while cool in some respects, regurgitates many of the things the Wii has been doing well for years now. Apparently no one at Microsoft HQ has been playing the system formally known as the Revolution. I suggest they pick one up pronto!

Downloaded my Welcome Home games from Sony this afternoon. Ended up grabbing InFamous and Little Big Planet. InFamous, so far, has been pretty sweet!

Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing

4. O to grace how great a debtor
Daily I’m constrained to be!
Let Thy goodness, like a fetter,
Bind my wandering heart to Thee.
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
Prone to leave the God I love;
Here’s my heart, O take and seal it,
Seal it for Thy courts above.

– Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing

God’s truth doesn’t change. Even when that truth is found in a hymn written in 1757.

What is your life?

¹³ Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” ¹⁴ Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. ¹⁵ Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.” ¹⁶As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil. ¹⁷If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them. – James 4:13-17 (NIV)

The future is a blank canvas that we like to scribble all over. Ideas fueled by our imaginations, egos, and sometimes even greed paint glorious indecipherable doodles that don’t always line up with God’s will. We say to ourselves, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money. (James 4:13b)” Notice though, that in doing so, we have failed to bring God in on our future plans.

¹⁵ Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.”

I don’t think that we always intentionally leave God out. Dreams and ideas mixed with future planning can quickly become intoxicating, even overwhelming. No, I think that we get so caught up in planning out the future, that we do not realize just who gives us our dreams.

¹⁴ Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

Our world is full of distractions; distractions that beg for our time and that contribute to the numbness we feel towards the urgency clearly spelled out in Scripture. If our lives are but mist, why aren’t we taking everything to God in prayer?

RIFT Impressions 1.2

Often times I feel like I’ll mention a game on this site and then never talk about it again. I promise you that this is not some small part of a larger conspiracy theory. I truthfully just quickly get bored with games that fail to grab hold of me. Case in point:

Closing Thoughts:

MMO’s are time-sucking-vortexes that I simply do not have time for anymore. While I still enjoy reading about them, I feel that the genre as a whole has not advanced forward. World of Warcraft is the pinnacle of modern MMO gaming. Games like RIFT, though polished, offer me nothing compelling to forget about World of Warcraft and move forward. I do hope that Star Wars: The Old Republic and Guild Wars 2 do something to shake up this genre funk. I miss playing a good MMO. Until that day, MMO’s like RIFT have been banished from my computer. Case closed.