Wow December 2010 is almost upon us!!! I guess I better give a brief update since time flys so fast!!!
I am back living in Michigan. :) I am pursuing getting a post bachelorette degree in Secondary High School Science. I am very excited about this :) I am once again working at the Southgate Lowes store...which I love very much...and every once in awhile I get to use my Spanish...this totally makes my day!!! :)
We have started a small group for the college students that meets in my apartment every Sunday night.
Besides all the other mundane things of life, that pretty much sums up my days.
As I do all these things I am seeking to do them all because of the love of Christ. II Cor 5;14-15 has been the verse I have been seeking to live by recently, "For the love of Christ compels us because we judge thus: that if One died for all then all died, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again."
Monday, November 29, 2010
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
A day at Dunkin Donuts...yummy :)
Dunkin Donuts always brings good conversations and good coffee :) ...
Today I decided to take the day and do some serious reading. I had a sermon that I was going to read by the Father of Elizabeth Prentice called God's Ways Above Men's. Dunkin Donuts was the place I went.
I ordered some coffee and an egg sandwich and started reading. The bases of the sermon was from Isaiah, "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts."
I am not going to preach the sermon again, but there were some great things that stuck out. One of those being, how can we as humans, who are ever changing and growing in wisdom and knowledge, question the God who is omniscient and infallible? He must know so much more than we can ever even comprehend to know, what exists to know. If we were in charge, which a lot of times we try to be in our minds, we would have done things so much differently and they would not have worked!
The fact that many people will say, "Well because you can't explain this to me about God, I am not going to believe He exists," is all the more reason that He really is God. How could we serve a God that we know everything about? How could He really be eternal and infinite if we could understand why He does everything that He does?
But much of the time, we try to set ourselves up as judges. We believe we know what He wants, we know what is right, and we know truth. As the author of the sermon said the fact of the matter is as Proverbs states, "He who answers a matter before he hears it, it is a folly and shame to him" How can we think we even understand what God is doing. There is so much to Him, that we don't even know we are missing it. We have been called to trust, to believe His ways are good. This is what we need to do.
As I finished reading this sermon. I opened my Bible and read through Job 38-42. In the midst of my reading a lady walked over. "I see you are reading the Bible, I study the Bible too." she said.
I looked up and smiled, "Oh you do? That's really cool. Where do you go to church?"I asked.
"I go to the Jehovah's witness church," she replied. I thought to myself, who can know the mind of God.. I decided since she approach me I was going to just share what I was reading.
We had a 5 minute conversation or so mostly with me talking about the greatness of God, how His ways are so much higher than ours, how nothing we do could make Him give us His grace, and everything we do is as filthy rags, then we read Romans 3. She then asked if she could come to my house for a farther study. I thought to myself, usually these people you never want to come to your house because they like to argue about scripture and I don't like to do that. But again, who can know the mind of God. I told her that would be fine because I loved to talk about things of the Lord.
Who knows what will happen..but as she left, I thought to myself, How sad it is that people are blinded by their own righteousness. How many even in our christian rings would people declare you have to be a good person. Even myself sometimes, I think that I have the "answers", but I am still a human not deserving of God's love and grace. He is the one that has change my life! Who are any of us to declare that our way is right? It is not our way. It is God's way. God's way is right. He hasn't done anything how we would do it. He took tax collectors and prostitutes and gave them Himself and changed their lives. He has done the same thing for me. And that lady today, even though she is trying to make herself a Righteous person by doing things she thinks will make God give her what she wants...He has already done it for her. He wants her. He wants to change her life. Christ did not come for the righteous but to bring sinners to repentance. Sinners...last time I checked everyone falls into that category.
Today I decided to take the day and do some serious reading. I had a sermon that I was going to read by the Father of Elizabeth Prentice called God's Ways Above Men's. Dunkin Donuts was the place I went.
I ordered some coffee and an egg sandwich and started reading. The bases of the sermon was from Isaiah, "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts."
I am not going to preach the sermon again, but there were some great things that stuck out. One of those being, how can we as humans, who are ever changing and growing in wisdom and knowledge, question the God who is omniscient and infallible? He must know so much more than we can ever even comprehend to know, what exists to know. If we were in charge, which a lot of times we try to be in our minds, we would have done things so much differently and they would not have worked!
The fact that many people will say, "Well because you can't explain this to me about God, I am not going to believe He exists," is all the more reason that He really is God. How could we serve a God that we know everything about? How could He really be eternal and infinite if we could understand why He does everything that He does?
But much of the time, we try to set ourselves up as judges. We believe we know what He wants, we know what is right, and we know truth. As the author of the sermon said the fact of the matter is as Proverbs states, "He who answers a matter before he hears it, it is a folly and shame to him" How can we think we even understand what God is doing. There is so much to Him, that we don't even know we are missing it. We have been called to trust, to believe His ways are good. This is what we need to do.
As I finished reading this sermon. I opened my Bible and read through Job 38-42. In the midst of my reading a lady walked over. "I see you are reading the Bible, I study the Bible too." she said.
I looked up and smiled, "Oh you do? That's really cool. Where do you go to church?"I asked.
"I go to the Jehovah's witness church," she replied. I thought to myself, who can know the mind of God.. I decided since she approach me I was going to just share what I was reading.
We had a 5 minute conversation or so mostly with me talking about the greatness of God, how His ways are so much higher than ours, how nothing we do could make Him give us His grace, and everything we do is as filthy rags, then we read Romans 3. She then asked if she could come to my house for a farther study. I thought to myself, usually these people you never want to come to your house because they like to argue about scripture and I don't like to do that. But again, who can know the mind of God. I told her that would be fine because I loved to talk about things of the Lord.
Who knows what will happen..but as she left, I thought to myself, How sad it is that people are blinded by their own righteousness. How many even in our christian rings would people declare you have to be a good person. Even myself sometimes, I think that I have the "answers", but I am still a human not deserving of God's love and grace. He is the one that has change my life! Who are any of us to declare that our way is right? It is not our way. It is God's way. God's way is right. He hasn't done anything how we would do it. He took tax collectors and prostitutes and gave them Himself and changed their lives. He has done the same thing for me. And that lady today, even though she is trying to make herself a Righteous person by doing things she thinks will make God give her what she wants...He has already done it for her. He wants her. He wants to change her life. Christ did not come for the righteous but to bring sinners to repentance. Sinners...last time I checked everyone falls into that category.
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Updating Time
After talking with many of you who informed me that you followed this blog...but didn't realize that I wasn't going back to Honduras... I figured that I should update and make it clear. The plan was to be there teaching for the year...but because of some visa problems that we had, we were not able to go back. Thank you all for your prayers, I can say I NEEDED them ALOT!!!
I do miss my students. I am able to stay in touch with them over facebook...which is a blessing. As to why God had us come back early...well who can know the mind of God... definitely not me! I have no idea. Actually, I am still wondering on this. I am seeking and praying for what God has for this next step of the journey of my life... cause right now I have no idea! I would welcome your prayers as I seek His direction. Like my dad told me recently..."Just serve God where you are at." I am seeking to do this, but I would still appreciate your prayers too!!!
Thanks for coming with me on this journey to Honduras and back. I hope you were able to enjoy it some through reading the different experiences :).
Well see where God takes us next... Living with God is an adventure...or as the song goes..."living life means taking chances and there worth takin....lovin might be a mistake but its worth makin..." not sure how that fits in but it popped into my mind! Anyway...keep pursuing God!!1
I do miss my students. I am able to stay in touch with them over facebook...which is a blessing. As to why God had us come back early...well who can know the mind of God... definitely not me! I have no idea. Actually, I am still wondering on this. I am seeking and praying for what God has for this next step of the journey of my life... cause right now I have no idea! I would welcome your prayers as I seek His direction. Like my dad told me recently..."Just serve God where you are at." I am seeking to do this, but I would still appreciate your prayers too!!!
Thanks for coming with me on this journey to Honduras and back. I hope you were able to enjoy it some through reading the different experiences :).
Well see where God takes us next... Living with God is an adventure...or as the song goes..."living life means taking chances and there worth takin....lovin might be a mistake but its worth makin..." not sure how that fits in but it popped into my mind! Anyway...keep pursuing God!!1
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