Thursday, July 15, 2010

I'll be out of my mind, and you'll be out of ideas pretty soon.

(comments on a real picture)

- ______, You DON'T look bad! You are VERY pretty!

- Whatever! Yall are crazy! ______ You are WAYYY prettier than me!

Really guys? Either you just really want attention, or you think God doesn't know what he's doing when he made you. It says in the bible that we are "fearfully and WONDERFULLY made." Out of ALLLLL Gods creation, we are his MASTERPIECE. Let me say that again. MAS-TER-PIECE! You are BEAUTIFUL without make up, or jewelery, or dyed hair. God made you. Look at how beautiful God made the sky, and trees and WORLD. Do you not mean much more to him than the trees? Goodness gracious guys!

This DOES NOT mean you should be conceited about it. God made us beautiful, but the Bible ALSO says that our ONLY boast should be in HIM. Not in ourselves. God made us so beautiful, and he has a purpose for us all, but remember the first part of that phrase. GOD made us. His own personal design for our lives in particular. We are the masterpieces of the greatest designer of all time. He knew what our purpose would be before we were born. Before Adam and Eve. If WAYYY back then he was already planning how we would look and our purpose and life, don't you think we're pretty stinking important to him? The next time you're tempted to put yourself down like that, think of one thing:
God made you, and when you put yourself down and call yourself ugly, you are calling a design of the God of the UNIVERSE ugly. I think that pretty much speaks for itself.

Sunday, July 11, 2010

Life is still worth living.

Sometimes I wonder where our country's going when I see commercials about things like scientology on the TV when Christianity is even trying to be pushed out of the Pledge of Allegiance. It just makes me stop and think.

Joel Nizza was at Governors School here in Arkansas for the past 4 weeks. He said that one of the people spoke on how Christians are imposing their faith on others, or forcing it on them. It's just like, Oh okay! So you're aloud to tell me that I'm an idiot for being a Christian and all that and that's not "imposing" on me. Nah go ahead and bash my faith and I'll just sit back and not stand up for what I believe because everyone else will be mad at me for forcing it on them.

I don't want to sit back anymore and watch the devil slowly but surely take over this nation OR this world, because we all know he's after it. And it's scary to think about it that he is, but it's even scarier to think that we are ALL just sitting at home watching him do it. We've been pushing God out of our schools, our communities, our lives, and our country for so many years and we are facing the consequences. I want to make a difference.

I believe that God has called me to do his work here. Right here in the United States of America. Where he sends me, I will go. I have devoted my life to him because he paid my debt. I owe him more than I could ever pay, and to live for him is the least I could do.

- Oh praise the one who paid my debt and raised this life up from the dead. -