Easier said then done.
But the funny thing about the Bible is, is that it's so clear! Seriously, it flat out tells you what to do. Another funny thing is, is that those flat out things are so difficult for us to do.
I have been reading in Deuteronomy lately and one of the many amazing verses says,
"The LORD your God is testing you, to find out if you love him with your whole being. Serve only the LORD your God. Respect him, keep his commands, and obey him. Serve him and be loyal to him." -Deuteronomy 13:3b-4.
That is a perfect example. It clearly says that God tests us sometimes, and that we need to serve him, to respect and obey him, but day after day we sin and break his rules.
Why is it so hard, why can't we just do what our Creator wants?
Well, we have a sin nature, we are never going to be perfect, and the fact is, we can't obey him, at all. We can't even keep one law that he has set for us, it's impossible.
But that is the beauty of it really. Since we as humans are incapable of obeying and following him, he sent his son to save us, to help us.
Through his son we can lean on him and depend on him to help us take every step in life, and then, when we completely trust him, we can follow God.
Yes, it's very hard, but with God and the love he has for us, we can do it with his help, we just have to accept him, and follow him and trust him enough with our lives.
Monday, August 17, 2009
Thursday, July 30, 2009
ATL (:
This past Monday-Wednesday Alexis, Emily R and I went to Atlanta (by ourselves!). We stayed with her aunt and uncle for the few days that we were there and it was tons of fun!
Monday we left from Alexis' house at six am (whoa) and along the way we went to the very first CHICK-FIL-A!!! It was awesome, we dined in (: Then around one we arrived at six flags and rode pretty much all the rides worth riding and then left around six.
Tuesday, we woke up and went to Warped Tour at eleven, and stayed until six. It was great, except I don't think I've ever heard so much language :o Makes me appreciate that my parents raised me in church and raised me to love God with everything I have, because that was not an atmosphere that I would've wanted to live in! That night we tried to go swimming but it was about to storm and really really cold so we came in, ate a delish key lime pie and talked, then went to bed around twelve.
Then Wednesday we were going to hang out around downtown but we realized we needed to be back at five so we left for Jacksonville around ten am (:
That's pretty much it. Except....
I shall share something I learned from my quiet time. Actually, it was on the way back and I read my Bible a lot of that drive because.....it was the best thing to do for a six hour drive lol.
I've decided that I am going to read through my Bible from start to finish and I was reading in Numbers at the time and out of the many verses I will talk about one that I really liked.
Numbers 12:8 says,
"With him I speak face to face, clearly and not in riddles;
he sees the form of the LORD.
Why then were you not afraid
to speak against my servant Moses?"
I will bet that almost, if not every, Christian has been scared to witness to someone because of some reason or another. I am for sure, I guess because I am scared of a little rejection, or what I will look like when it's over. But right here I believe that God was showing me this to remind me that He is on my side, yes, my Creator and Saviour is with me at all times, so instead of me being afraid of a mere human, shouldn't they be afraid that I have God on my side?
So pretty much what I got out of this in a nutshell is that I shouldn't be scared of witnessing because God is with me and he is ruler over all and if something bad would happen, he will be there to comfort and/or defeat it (:
Monday we left from Alexis' house at six am (whoa) and along the way we went to the very first CHICK-FIL-A!!! It was awesome, we dined in (: Then around one we arrived at six flags and rode pretty much all the rides worth riding and then left around six.
Tuesday, we woke up and went to Warped Tour at eleven, and stayed until six. It was great, except I don't think I've ever heard so much language :o Makes me appreciate that my parents raised me in church and raised me to love God with everything I have, because that was not an atmosphere that I would've wanted to live in! That night we tried to go swimming but it was about to storm and really really cold so we came in, ate a delish key lime pie and talked, then went to bed around twelve.
Then Wednesday we were going to hang out around downtown but we realized we needed to be back at five so we left for Jacksonville around ten am (:
That's pretty much it. Except....
I shall share something I learned from my quiet time. Actually, it was on the way back and I read my Bible a lot of that drive because.....it was the best thing to do for a six hour drive lol.
I've decided that I am going to read through my Bible from start to finish and I was reading in Numbers at the time and out of the many verses I will talk about one that I really liked.
Numbers 12:8 says,
"With him I speak face to face, clearly and not in riddles;
he sees the form of the LORD.
Why then were you not afraid
to speak against my servant Moses?"
I will bet that almost, if not every, Christian has been scared to witness to someone because of some reason or another. I am for sure, I guess because I am scared of a little rejection, or what I will look like when it's over. But right here I believe that God was showing me this to remind me that He is on my side, yes, my Creator and Saviour is with me at all times, so instead of me being afraid of a mere human, shouldn't they be afraid that I have God on my side?
So pretty much what I got out of this in a nutshell is that I shouldn't be scared of witnessing because God is with me and he is ruler over all and if something bad would happen, he will be there to comfort and/or defeat it (:
Friday, July 10, 2009
Summer Tour!
So, as you all probably know, Tour was FANTASTIC! I am really glad I decided to go.
I am overwhelmed with all the stuff I could talk about to you, about how I roomed with Alexis and Emily R in a basement to ourselves (that was amazing), or the freaky door to door inviting haha.
But for starters, one thing that has stuck with me is the saying "You are representing Christ, so have a good behavoir and attitude!"
I usually only hear that on church trips, so my attitude is "Oh hey, I'm with my church inviting people to come hear us worship Christ, I have to act my best for Jesus!" but then I was like "Wait, why do I only have to do this on church trips?"
So I know I'm really really slow but I realized that whenever and wherever I go, I call myself I Christian, and I need to represent Jesus and not disrespect His name. So now instead of just going around saying "Oh yeah, I'me saved" I actually try to think about my descisions and do what Jesus wants.
More to come.
I am overwhelmed with all the stuff I could talk about to you, about how I roomed with Alexis and Emily R in a basement to ourselves (that was amazing), or the freaky door to door inviting haha.
But for starters, one thing that has stuck with me is the saying "You are representing Christ, so have a good behavoir and attitude!"
I usually only hear that on church trips, so my attitude is "Oh hey, I'm with my church inviting people to come hear us worship Christ, I have to act my best for Jesus!" but then I was like "Wait, why do I only have to do this on church trips?"
So I know I'm really really slow but I realized that whenever and wherever I go, I call myself I Christian, and I need to represent Jesus and not disrespect His name. So now instead of just going around saying "Oh yeah, I'me saved" I actually try to think about my descisions and do what Jesus wants.
More to come.
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