Currently Listening Be Here By Keith Urban #3 Making Memories of Us see related

You really learn in your life that you CANNOT put G-D in a box. I have been told that many times and yet I have recently learned a twist that makes even more since... I CANNOT ALLOW MYSELF TO BE IN A BOX. Yeah my face got rocked off with that thought. I myself could keep G-D from showing me new ideas or calling me in a certain by the walls of my box. i think as christians we get this belief we know how or how not G-D would call us. What if G-D called me to marry a prostitute (that would be way out of the box)? He did it to Hosea and I don't think everyone was like "Oh thats nice the Lord has called this amazing man to marry a whore, thats awesome!". But G-D did do that which really shows to me that I would have to be receptive to anything the Lord wants me to do. Thank you G-D for being so hard to tame and un-able to be boxed in by man!!

I have really seen the problem with allowing myself to be in a box with tradtionalism. Just saying "well this is how I or other believers have handled it in the past so I should do that now" is holding on to tradionalism. Jesus came to help free us of this box mentality and you see this preached to the Pharisees in Mark 7: 8-13. "You have let go of the commands of G-D and are holding on to the tradtions of men..." That put me in my place. Who am I to say what the Lord will tell me? I think that if people would start living in the freedom of grace then the box of traditionalism would break down and disenegrate. I am not living for man, despite what people would want, I am livign for a G-D who is much bigger than any man and is my author of grace.

I hope all is well with any who read this. Life has been amazing lately!! G-D is moving so fast that I have just run with Him to stay caught up. I love my new CHURCH!! The people there are amazing and really have an idea of what it means to live outside a box. Also with changes I have learned a lot about priorities, who my real friends are and how to not to be one foot in the world and one foot in heaven. I am loving all G-D is teaching me. It can be hard and people can hurt you but, man it is worth it to see how much G-D wants to provide and lead my life!

Well gotta go, I love you all so much, whether we met once or a billion times!!

Currently Listening A Collision By David Crowder Band #15 You Are My Joy see related

I came to know Jesus Christ as something more than a painting, an expression and a historical figure when at the lucky age of twelve. 81% of “Christians” come to know Jesus as their savior before age 18; I thank G-D everyday I am in that statistic. I think I can safely say I never lived the “normal life”. Not that my life was rough or hard per say but different, in other words I grew up quickly. My life at age twelve was different than other twelve year olds and my life did not start off like any other “normal” life. When I was born my mother had a disease called toxemia that severely affected my health and physical body as a newborn. When born I had a list of physical problems: my umbilical cord was wrapped around my neck twice, I was 10 days premature, I had not moved in over two days and my head was so sensitive it could not be touched for six months. After being delivered my parents were not allowed to hold me and the doctors quickly took me to intensive care and placed me in an incubator. My father, being panicked, came and watched me through the glass as I suffered. Then there was a moment my father will never forget, I died. Sounds crazy but it is true. My heart stopped pumping blood, my lungs stop inhaling and exhaling and my body laid there helpless and still. My father crying for help saw the doctors rush in and in an instant, a blink of an eye my life had started as if I never left. After that point I was given a 25% chance of making through one night and my parents were told I was most likely to be a “vegetable” my whole life, they insisted it would be better to “pull the plug” than let me suffer. Thank G-D my parents had faith somewhere in their hearts and knew they couldn’t give up on me. My mother herself even said to the doctor’s “G-D can do more than science”. Indeed that is true, Praise be to G-D. Twelve years later I am as rambunctious as any kid in seventh grade. Flirting with girls, getting into trouble and trying to find out who I was, how about truthfully saying: going down the wrong path, that was this point of my life. I grew up quickly and that only led me to do “grown up” things. I can safely say I had never had sex or done drugs, but anything else you can imagine, I did it. My parents were so aggravated with me that they considered enrolling me into military school, I was a punk. Luckily one day my whole life changed, forever. I had a close friend, Tim Truscott, he had been visiting this church lately and had greatly been enjoying it and believing what they were talking about, which was a surprise tome because Tim was the biggest “science buff” there was. One night Tim spends the night with me only on one condition: I had to go to church with him the next morning. So I did and it is hard to put into words what happened. The pastor, Steve Jackson, which morning was preaching on “a life with purpose”, telling the congregation there was a reason we were alive and G-D had a plan for each and every life and it was something extraordinary. That was it, BAM! It happened; G-D spoke to me louder than a fire alarm going off physically in my ear. “I kept you alive for a reason kid, you’re going to do something for me, your life has a reason” were the words being said to my head and heart and they changed my life forever. I will never forget that day, it made me who I am and I am so thankful for the old being gone and the new being here, even today. It makes up my whole identity. I literally feel I am nothing without Christ and could nothing apart from Him. I am in love with Him. I fell in love with Him that day and know I can never fall out of it. It is impossible. That is why I am here. That is why I am breathing. That is why I am writing this letter, it has nothing to do with selfishness or reputation, but a responsibility and ambition to fulfill my heart’s desire: tell people of all ages about Jesus Christ of Nazareth. I have a heart for anyone I come across. I want to see Kennesaw State University affected to the point where it is literally a “city on a hill”. I want children to live as children and not grow up to quickly, embracing freedom and innocence. That is who I am now and want to accomplish while I am here. I just want to be used; I want to be a tool in the hands of the craftsman, building a masterpiece. Those are my goals, nothing fancy or complex, just the heart doing its job.
THAT WAS THE STORY HE CREATED IN ME AND IT STILL GOES ON TODAY!! I LOVE YOU ALL!!!