just live.

I read over my blog and I realized that it sounds completely depressing! Ha which is weird, because i'm not a depressed kinda person. I must only feel like really writing down my thoughts when I'm in that kinda mood. I apologize. That depressing streak of blogs must end. haha

I'm beginning to realize some things. This may come across as shallow but as Christians, we are called to live, i mean really live. Granted we are to do school and work and everything else for His glory but I don't think Christ called us to a life bogged down with the pressures of everyday things. Our minds must be set on eternity. And while we are here, we must live. "The glory of God is man fully alive." St. Irenaeus of Lyons I believe that. Jesus came to "bind up the broken hearted" so do things that make your heart happy. Go watch a sunset. Drive 5 hours just to catch a beach breeze. He said, "Above all else, guard your heart for out of it flows the wellspring of life." I believe that by guarding it He didn't just mean protect your heart but He also meant, take care of your heart! What makes your heart happy? Do those things! We are here but an instant, so show the world what joy it means to have the One as our Savior and Lord. Show the world joy! "Do not grieve, for the joy of the Lord is your strength." Nehemiah 8:10 So how do we make it through this life? With the joy of our Father as our strength.


This is a sidenote but it is something I am learning. I once caught myself saying that I didn't want to hang out with certain people too often because I felt like being around them I wouldn't be able to not fall into some of the same sins they do. So i would hang out with them, just not often. but i am sure it came across as I am too good to really be good friends with them. What a hypocrite I am! Those are the very ones I am called to minister to. "If you faint on the day of adversity, then your strength was too small" Proverbs 24:10 How awesome it is to go overseas and around the globe for Jesus but for me, if i cannot minster and love on those who are the very closest to me then what am i doing? We are just called to love people. Jesus was often caught just chatting with the prositutes and the taxcollectors and the Pharisees. I think if Jesus had come at this day and time, he would've been caught chatting with the potheads and prostitutes and all the ones that make us feel uncomfortable. Those people are who we (i'm talking to myself as well) need to ministering too.