Right now you're probably thinking: that title makes no sense whatsoever. I chose this title because as a college student, I seem to find many sources of worry; schoolwork, student loans, future plans, etc. Matthew 6:26, "Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns: yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?", reminds me that I have everything in Him.
I have decided to start this blog as a sort of accountability project to focus on the Word no matter how hectic a day may seem. Also, it's a fantastic way to connect with others, and hopefully I will be able to get the Gospel out there in a manner that people can relate to.
I absolutely love to listen to anything and everything. If you have prayer requests, praises for Him that you want to share, if you need someone to listen to you vent, if you need advice, please please PLEASE don't hesitate to ask, because we are all brothers and sisters in Christ!
“Jesus answered, ‘Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed,the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life”
-John 4:13-14
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Under construction. Self-improvement. There are a multitude of ways to say it. The bottom line is, I have a lot of work to do this year. My faith has suffered the past six months. Primarily from neglect and confusion and fear. But I am determined to become more proactive. I don’t want to be fed from the Word based on one person’s teachings unless it’s Jesus Himself. I need to examine the Bible and dig deep. I need to become more confident in my convictions, more confident in myself overall. I need to be focused and driven. I need to tell myself that I CAN and WILL make it through this semester. I need to do my best and be satisfied in it. I need to be loving and I need to stop being selfish. And what better time to start than now?
“This is what the Lord says: Cursed are those who put their trust in mere humans, who rely on human strength and turn their hearts away from the Lord. They are like stunted shrubs in the desert, with no hope for the future. They will live in the barren wilderness, in an uninhabited salty land. But blessed are those who trust in the Lord and have made the Lord their hope and confidence. They are like trees planted along a riverbank, with roots that reach deep into the water. Such trees are not bothered by the heat or worried by long months of drought. Their leaves stay green, and they never stop producing fruit.” - Jeremiah 17:5-8
After reading this I had to stop and think: which one am I? The weak shrub trusting in other people’s advice? Or the healthy and strong tree that is rooted in God’s word?
Sometimes I feel like it’s easy to assume that because we are God’s people, we will not face trouble, nor will we suffer in any way. But that’s simply not a Biblical thought process. Even in this passage, we can see that even the tree rooted in God’s word faces trouble: “Such trees are not bothered by the heat or worried by long months of drought” It doesn’t say “if” the heat comes, or “if” a drought comes. We are going to struggle, but it is a question of how we handle those challenges, whether we turn to God, or turn to others.
Mmmm Quiet Times…
Does anyone have a suggestion for a website that posts good study topics for quiet times?
God never calls us to sacrifice as an end in itself, but only through sacrifice on the way to great joy. On the other side of the seeming loss and denial is always reward and pleasure so deep and so intense that it’s almost impossible to call what you gave up a sacrifice at all.
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Joshua Harris (Not Even a Hint)
I think that this is a really difficult concept to grasp when we are looking at the sacrifice as an object that we cling to, instead of looking over that object and at God Himself and at what His will for us is. Sometimes it is just extremely difficult to see it through the pain.
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Romans 7:4, “So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him Who raised from the dead, in order that we may bear the fruit of God.”….Galatians 5:24, “Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires”
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My old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. I do not treat the grace of God as meaningless. For if keeping the law could make us right with God, then there was no need for Christ to die.
—Galatians 2:20-21
