i get my joy from having people actually want to be my friend. and being liked is a crappy idol. it really just makes you feel like crap. but besides praying i don’t know how to change it to where i get that from God instead of you guys.
I am fine. And I have never been so broken. Though nothing has happened directly to me I look around at my family and I see the effect of sin on those I love and it is killing me. I want to be able to do something. In my head there has got to be [...]
So today was my first day of trying not to waste my time and money. Here is how it went down… I think I may have spent too much time on just doing stuff for me and not enough doing stuff for others. Basically I had a lot of free time and spent it…. listening [...]
Two things that God has laid on my heart today (and before, but I have ignored).
1. Spending my money wisely and using it for the Kingdom.
2. Spending my time wisely and using if for the Kingdom.
So far what this looks like in my head is watching what I spend very carefully. No more being bored [...]
More often than not when I’m seeking God’s will, I’m really asking for approval for a certain action. Rarely do I go with a blank slate, with no set notions in the works, and seek what God wants. I ask for certain things or certain outcomes in situations.
It’s never easy to realize when you are [...]
There is never just ‘accepting’ Jesus as your Lord and Savior in the Bible. It is always a call to follow him. Then the person either follows or departs. There is no acknowledging Christ’s deity and going back to life as it was.
But the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: [...]
I wonder how we view ourselves, and how the gospel has affected the view of ourselves. I think that when everything boils down we can’t help but to think of ourselves of worthy. I know that the thought going through your head right now is some form of a disagreement with me, and I think [...]