God has been teaching me so much lately and it has been so encouraging! Today I was really tired because we are on a lax trip and had ridden in a bus all night. I had the option of taking a nap or getting in the word and everything in me was wanting to take a nap. I'm in a room with Kirsti and Sweeney. So all of the sudden Kirsti goes and sits in the desk in the hotel room.
I asked her what she was doing and she just help up a small purple book. I had no idea what that meant so I was like...what? And she said..Its the Bible! I was SOOOO encouraged and it was so easy for me to grab my Bible and start studying also!
The coolest part about this is that it helps me trust the Lord SO much with the lacrosse team! Kirsti just became a Christian this year and it has been so cool to see her and Laura (another teammates) desire change in so many ways, and now they are studying the Bible on lax trips!!!
I know the Lord doesn't need me to grow these girls, and sometimes I still make things about me. I need to trust phil 1:6--"being confident of this that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus." I want to be CONFIDENT that God will continue to carry out the good work in these girl's lives. God's glory is so much greater than us! And NOT dependent upon me! This is a huge relief!
Friday, April 30, 2010
Saturday, April 24, 2010
empty rooms
Today my parents came up for my last Senior Lacrosse Game--wow, it's hard to believe that it has been four years...
four years of:
--living in a dorm
--playing lacrosse
--waking up for morning weights every tues and thurs at 5:30
--Growing and struggling and growing and strengthening my walk with the Lord
--Getting to know my best friends for life
--GDH food!
My parents helped me pack up some things from my room and memories just flew through my brain! Pictures of me and my first roommates(Jordan Newberry,Allison Green, and Riviere!!). Pictures of me and my ZETA family! Pictures of me and Ashton and our four years together. God has blessed me with the best four years of college. I definitely made mistakes but I'm getting there.
Another memory and cool update: My favorite waitress is Teka at Steamers and I have been really praying these four years to be able to share the gospel with her. Yesterday I got to share my testimony with her! I didn't really get to tell her much bc we always speak in passing but I got to tell her about how the reason I come to steamers so much and why they know me was becuase my freshman year Bethany Griffith who was involved with CO took me once a week to steamers to do a bible study. This changed my life becuase that year I became a Christian, so steamers is an awesome environment!! And I got to tell Teka all about it!!
So after four years, my room is empty. Empty of physical and material things but it will always be FULL of the memories I have here at Pc.
four years of:
--living in a dorm
--playing lacrosse
--waking up for morning weights every tues and thurs at 5:30
--Growing and struggling and growing and strengthening my walk with the Lord
--Getting to know my best friends for life
--GDH food!
My parents helped me pack up some things from my room and memories just flew through my brain! Pictures of me and my first roommates(Jordan Newberry,Allison Green, and Riviere!!). Pictures of me and my ZETA family! Pictures of me and Ashton and our four years together. God has blessed me with the best four years of college. I definitely made mistakes but I'm getting there.
Another memory and cool update: My favorite waitress is Teka at Steamers and I have been really praying these four years to be able to share the gospel with her. Yesterday I got to share my testimony with her! I didn't really get to tell her much bc we always speak in passing but I got to tell her about how the reason I come to steamers so much and why they know me was becuase my freshman year Bethany Griffith who was involved with CO took me once a week to steamers to do a bible study. This changed my life becuase that year I became a Christian, so steamers is an awesome environment!! And I got to tell Teka all about it!!
So after four years, my room is empty. Empty of physical and material things but it will always be FULL of the memories I have here at Pc.
Saturday, April 3, 2010
risk.
I wanted to start this blog enter you guys into my life as I strive to live a life that is not my own; as I strive to live by faith and obedience to God who gave me life through Christ! I am graduating in LESS than a month!! And the real world begins... Life outside of Presbyterian College. I hope you follow me as I learn what it means to glorify Christ in all that I do by enjoying him in everything. What will that be like?
Step 1(for me):
Faith. What is faith? Faith is blind. I'm realizing this more and more. If faith wasn't blind it wouldn't be faith at all. Faith is like Risk. From a John Piper sermon I love:
"Why is there such a thing as risk? The reason there is such a thing as risk is that there is such a thing as ignorance. If there were no ignorance, there would be no risk. Risk is possible because we don't know how things will turn out.
This means that God can take no risks. He knows the outcome of all his choices before they happen. And since he knows the outcome of all his actions before they happen, he plans accordingly. His omniscience rules out the very possibility of taking risks.
But not so with us. We are not God; we are ignorant. We don't know what will happen tomorrow. God does not tell us what he intends to do tomorrow or five years from now. Evidently God intends for us to live and act in ignorance and in uncertainty about the outcome of our actions."
My Risk: Leaving everything I know (relationships at Pc, a great community, etc.) to go where the Lord is calling me. I have no idea what I'm doing, where I'm going, who I'm living with, etc. But I want to have enough faith to know that God is completely sovereign over this situation and he takes NO RISK. He knows me best and his plan for me is good. And so I'll go...and we'll see what happens.
Scripture I'm claiming: By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going. Hebrews 11:8
Step 1(for me):
Faith. What is faith? Faith is blind. I'm realizing this more and more. If faith wasn't blind it wouldn't be faith at all. Faith is like Risk. From a John Piper sermon I love:
"Why is there such a thing as risk? The reason there is such a thing as risk is that there is such a thing as ignorance. If there were no ignorance, there would be no risk. Risk is possible because we don't know how things will turn out.
This means that God can take no risks. He knows the outcome of all his choices before they happen. And since he knows the outcome of all his actions before they happen, he plans accordingly. His omniscience rules out the very possibility of taking risks.
But not so with us. We are not God; we are ignorant. We don't know what will happen tomorrow. God does not tell us what he intends to do tomorrow or five years from now. Evidently God intends for us to live and act in ignorance and in uncertainty about the outcome of our actions."
My Risk: Leaving everything I know (relationships at Pc, a great community, etc.) to go where the Lord is calling me. I have no idea what I'm doing, where I'm going, who I'm living with, etc. But I want to have enough faith to know that God is completely sovereign over this situation and he takes NO RISK. He knows me best and his plan for me is good. And so I'll go...and we'll see what happens.
Scripture I'm claiming: By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going. Hebrews 11:8
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