Woah. It’s been a while since I’ve hopped on here. As my good friend used to say “It’s been a hot minute.” Lots has happened.
2018 is over. (No this isn’t a cliche 2019 resolutions post)
I am now 20 years old. That’s terrifying.
God is working and tomorrow I’m leaving for college to start my first semester at a real college campus and I couldn’t be more excited.
God has been doing some amazing things in my life and I felt like sharing.
My time at Southland Christian Camp in Louisiana came to an end this past December. God gave me the opportunity to transfer up to Watertown, Wisconsin where I will attend the main campus this spring and continue my degree.
No, I don’t have a girlfriend. But, God has shown me things in my life that continue to impact me and show me how I can prepare to eventually be ready to be a boyfriend, husband, father.
I finally got a MacBook Pro so that’s cool too.
I’m in a very fast-paced time of my life. While home on Christmas break, I worked nearly 100 hours at Under Armour in just a 3-and a half week time span while attempting to spend time with friends and family. I also picked up another client for my growing Graphic Design/Web Design business that God had blessed me.
But through all of this God continues to bless me and lead me. It’s not easy to follow God, but if you stay close to Him and seek Him He promised not to forsake us and to guide us along our Life’s Journey.
So What?
Over this last month or so, God has shown me that He is always working even when I cannot see it. Whether it be small or not, I’ve been able to see that God’s timing is perfect. Sometimes in life and I’ve been in this position more than I would like to admit; God seems distant or even completely absent from our lives.
We get frustrated and impatient with God and at those times Satan uses our distance from God to destroy our relationship with Christ.
Obviously, Satan cannot take us from God and he cannot remove our titles as children of God, but he can bring us to a place so far from God where to an outsider it might seem as if we abandoned God altogether or possibly didn’t even know Him, to begin with.
So in lieu of God’s faithfulness in 2018 in my life, my slogan for 2019 will be:
Don’t Give Up.
Don’t give up on God.
Don’t give up on yourself. God hasn’t why would you?
I think a lot of Christians see God as this perfect God who only loves people when they are perfect. That’s so untrue. I’m not saying God just loves you and your sin because that’s also not true. But like I said earlier, no matter where we are, we are still God’s children.
But don’t throw your spiritual ambitions away from the instant you make a mistake. I sometimes tell myself I’m unworthy of God and therefore I cannot have a relationship with God. Yes and No. Yes – I am unworthy of God and always will be. No – it isn’t the case anymore.
I have been accepted into His “family” because Jesus took the sin that made me unworthy and he took it upon himself so I could be seen as redeemed in my father’s eyes. Granted this isn’t a free “get out of heaven pass” just so we can live however we want.
As Christians, we should be seeking to use our lives to glorify God, but obviously, as fallen Christians, we will make mistakes and God knew that which is why He sent His son Jesus to be a sacrifice for our sins.
Don’t Give Up.