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