everyone asks. wow. one or two short complete sentences to describe this new passion God put in my heart and many others hearts (about 10,000 college students.) Well that is hard to explain, but with God's help that can be done. before this weekend, I knew I was and am a christian, but after this weekend, I have a new sense of what it means to be absolutely living for one thing: God. I have come to find this life is short, this life means nothing without Him, and that my every joy should come from Him. I have found that this life is truly not about me and thats hard to actually wrap my mind around. I have found that it really doesn't matter what people think because if you are still alive and breathing that means God has a purpose for YOU, His purpose for you not the social norms. He is not just keeping you around to dilly dally, or to live it for yourself. As Francis Chan put so sweetly "you should be thankful for each breath because they are all from God", and they are a simple reminder from God that "You are here to shine me, and I have a plan for you." So this is what I feel that God has for all of us to shine His light and to kindly share his goodness with others. It is a new journey for us each and everyday to take up the cross, and we all know at times we will fail, but the need is not get discouraged but remember his grace and mercy are something we cannot fathom... aka don't sweat your mistakes just keep living for Him. Keep spreading His love, kindness, humbleness, and joy for Him.
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. 12 I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. 13 That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God. 14 I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him.
- Ecclesiastes 3:11-14
delight in His glory and grace
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