creativity-wise, you know. <--This photo was taken in Lagos, Portugal. aBsoLuTeLy RaNdOm, I know!
Anyways, on a more serious note...
Lately I’ve been going through this phase. This phase were I just feel outside of myself. Not depressed necessarily. But just outside of myself, like I’m just letting life pass me by. Again, I promise I'm not depressed! lol
Just just that life's funny. Because now I realize that my life isn’t really about me. My life is in Christ and what he has done for me. Now I can't help but to want to live for Him, glorifying God the rest of my days. Doesn’t mean I can’t sin anymore. Like we were talking about in my small group today, our sinful nature is innate--something that we are born with. I realize that lately I have been pretty selfish.
And that, my friends, is a sin in itself.
God must always be at the center of our lives if we call ourselves “Christians.”
God must always be at the center of our lives if we call ourselves “Christians.”
I want to write books, articles, design and all these wonderful things, but what for? Well now for the glory of God.
I was reading this article at SetApartGirl.com. It was talking about coffee shop Christianity--what a concept. This defines what Christianity means and is for a lot of Americans today.
We’re comfortable. We go to church on Sundays. We start a Bible study. We’re in a small group. We serve at the church. And the list goes on…
We’re stuck, very comfortable where we are. Every so often we’ll go on a missions trip for a week to the inner city and feed the homeless, but then return snugly in our beds the next night back to the comfortable “norm.”
How many times have we really been stretched? When has life not been about my struggles, and my worries and my pain? When is it about others? When is it about Christ?
I’ve been somewhat outside of myself lately and unsure what to do. I beat myself up a lot about abilities that I don’t have, and how so many others better than I am, and ask myself, “will I ever be great at anything?”
To answer that question would be a disservice to the God that my mouth proclaims that I’m serving. In other words (I’m not quite sure if I’m making sense yet), it’s about making God great and not myself.
Not only does this take the stress away, at least at this moment, but requires that we lean on Christ because we can only be like Him through Him who gives us strength.
That’s it for today.
We’re comfortable. We go to church on Sundays. We start a Bible study. We’re in a small group. We serve at the church. And the list goes on…
We’re stuck, very comfortable where we are. Every so often we’ll go on a missions trip for a week to the inner city and feed the homeless, but then return snugly in our beds the next night back to the comfortable “norm.”
How many times have we really been stretched? When has life not been about my struggles, and my worries and my pain? When is it about others? When is it about Christ?
I’ve been somewhat outside of myself lately and unsure what to do. I beat myself up a lot about abilities that I don’t have, and how so many others better than I am, and ask myself, “will I ever be great at anything?”
To answer that question would be a disservice to the God that my mouth proclaims that I’m serving. In other words (I’m not quite sure if I’m making sense yet), it’s about making God great and not myself.
Not only does this take the stress away, at least at this moment, but requires that we lean on Christ because we can only be like Him through Him who gives us strength.
That’s it for today.
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