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| School has been over for a while now
and i've been taking US history for the summer.
i am officially a juniorrrrrrrrrr!
one step closer.
and I praise God for this past school year
and camp this thursday! woot woot woot!
happy 4th to allll!
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| FACT OF THE DAY: I NEED TO STUDY!
DISCOVERY OF THE DAY: THAI FOOD IS MY FAVOOOORIITE!
..... but so is japanese... and mexican.
anywho
please pray for my time in the word!
and to watch how i am at school and not to conform to others.
and to gain the courage to get outta my comfort zone and share the gospel!
hence, this week is dance production week.
and i am very excited excited.
and i can share with the many girls that will be in the MPR waiting to go on stage.
or even to friends coming to watch.
or anybody i encounter at school.
ahhhhhhhh! time to eat leftovers.
OH AND YAY! prom may 19th!
sophomore year is ova in about 27 school days!
time flies. praise God for this past school year. though i dislike schoolwork VERYMUCH-SO!
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| "...what's the motto of the game? be smart! be smart!" -ruby
I really want to get good grades in school. I really want to be missional when I hang out with my friends, and not ALWAYS just hanging out. I really want to be able to influence, and not to be influenced. I really want to crave God's word and the hardest part is the application. I really want to try. There are so many distractions here. I easily peasily can hang out with mi amigas y amigos and miss the whole point! As a follower of Christ I really really REALLY needa be a fisher of men! Keep me accountable to this, because I need it! I want to update my xanga more more more. I don't want to just be referred to as, "the good girl who loves Jesus" at school. Am I loving Christ in the way that I should? Do I want Christ more than anything else in my life right now? The world and everything in it really can blind you very easy. I want to really start thinking about what I read, and not just... read! "Christ is better!" I always try to tell and remind myself that Christ is better when things are going wrOOOng!.. or something! Christ IS better. and I miss the summer, but I still have no excuse for anything! Not even for being lazy, lazy bee. God's wrath is real. It is real.
Christ is better. Christ is better. & God's wrath is real.
I keep telling myself this everyday.
(along with Ruby's quote from years ago when Spurs were in the game!)
"GENOBILI! DUNCAN! PARKER! (whoever in the world she is yelling at... and though they can't even hear her...) COME ON! WHAT'S THE MOTTO OF THE GAME?! BE SMART, BE SMART!"-- and I quote.
1 Peter 1:22-25
22 Now that you have purified yourselves
by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for your brothers,
love one another deeply, from the heart. 23For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.
24 For, "All men are like grass,
and all their glory is like the flowers of the field;
the grass withers and the flowers fall,
25 but the word of the Lord stands forever." And this is the word that was preached to you. | | |
| God spoke through my lovely mother to remind me of many things. Big whammy-bam-bam! I really really reeeeeally need to wAAAAAAkEE UPPP!! be ALERTTTTT!! To stop being so self-absorbed and more focused on things that are happening around me... I can really be so selfish sometimes, with even just the way I manage my time. I can honestly say that I haven't been putting Christ first in my life lately, and I haven't been fully trusting in him enough to just give everything to him and put everything in his hands... God knows me better than I know myself. He created me and many times I can only put my attention to what I want instead of what is better.. I want to crave his word moreeeeee... I want to have a BETTER realization that Christ IS better... He is better than anything that this world offers.
I started reading Matthew last night... and just to see how God is faithful in his promises and how the disciples and wise men and many people just dropped all of their things to follow Christ... and I asked myself, if I were them... would I be willing to totally give everything up and leave everything to follow Christ? am I trusting God as much as I should be? I've been way more focused on my own desires that I haven't even been bearing much fruit to be honest with you... when I hang out with friends, am I... REALLY being missional? Or is that just an excuse to hang out with them?? I need to really be missional when i'm with friends, and make sure that things I do and say point to Christ. I need to bear good fruit. It's scary because it says in Matthew that those who don't bear good fruit will be thrown into the fire... I have been taking God's wrath so lightly... too lightly... Lord, help me to be a light-bearer, to want nothing more right now but you. | | |
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