Tuesday, April 10

Life

Well I sit here and type with my heart burning with a passion for home. 3 more days and I will be home! Until then Life here has been and is going Great* I beleieve I will do quite well on my finals and I am begining to acknowledge my Spiritual gifts. I can see God using me to bless all my friends here. He has truly given me a passion for relationships and a Love for people. This last week has been uber busy!!!! I have gone to yet another wedding reception and recied invites to another 2 for this summer! I have been digging in to the Word with more of an interest and am defianlty being filled with more passion, more Love, more excitement, more hope, more Joy and more inner peace. I am learning more about how the characteristics of the Spirit are metaphorically called fruit, and WHY they should be enjoyed. God has been placing me in situation were it is as though He has withdrawn from my life to a point only to allow me to grow in my faith and understanding of who He really is. I have recently come to completeion in my favorite class of all time: Theology 2. We just finished our Eschatology unit and the doctrine of the end times. Going through the emotions I diod in this class do not even compare to what this unit held for me. I now see God for WHO He is and just how wrathful and hating He is toward sin. How disgusted He is with the wicked. How VERY FEW people (sadly even many Christians) will make it into heaven to be with the LORD forever. Tonight will be my very last night spent @ Joe's Place. A place that has equipped me with the tools and skills that I need for youth ministry. God has opened my eyes to the distorted world we live in and it absolutly breaks my heart to see these children of God who have no future.

I am being separted from many friends and family-like friends here @ Briercrest and yet the Lord brews within me nothing but pure joy and utter peace. I wish to encourage you with these words. Take them to heart, know that God has so much in store for you and His arms are open to you, but if you choose not to take EVERY SINGLE blessing He has for you, you WILL lose them forever! Take God VERY seriosuly and take it to heart the wisdom that is in your head. Allow the knowledge within you make that journey of a whole 18 inches to your Heart, where ONLY there can it be transformed into Wisdom.

Please pray for me also if you may remeber. My father has huge plans for me right around the next bend in my life. He has presented me with an opportunity to bless and BE blessed, and I dont wanna lose that or trade it in for anything (even a life partener) ... seriously. I want to follow the Lord wholeheartedly and not be stupid enough to allow these prescious moments to fade but rather be stupid enough to ask my father to stretch my faith and give me trails so that I may only grow; knowing that is HE ALONE who holds my future, not myself. and it is He who will walk me through life unharmed and unashamed if I so choose that....

And that IS what I have chosen

I pray you will only so little as think to do the same.