Class Discussion

Today in class we talked about God's view of money and the worlds view of money. After school that day my sweet friend Leigh called me and just poured out her heart to me about what was going on in her life. It led into this awesome conversation about our world and how we need to be in this world and not of this world. We talked about how we don't want to fit in anymore and we shouldn't want to. How we want to be WHOLLY His and be willing to say, "God I trust you and I want nothing more than you. You ALONE are sufficient for me." and not stop at just saying it! To go on and ACT on our beliefs and sell all of our possessions. I started talking to her about the article we read in missions and our talk in missions and she said that that was exactly what she needed to hear. How cool is that?? God works in the most awesome ways!! Once we started talking about the article we challenged each other to wake up in the morning and instead of thinking "I hope this day gets over" or being at school and saying "I cant wait for today to just be done" to instead wake up and say, "God how can you use me today?" and be willing and ready for God to use us even in the smallest ways!! God wants us to give ourselves fully to Him and He wants to help us!! We just need to call on Him and ask for His help, because I don't know about you, but I'm already so materialistic that I NEED God's help in order to put my focus only on Him. But I long for that soo much. I want to just give my life away and when I die I want to be able to say that I have nothing left in me and that I did EVERYTHING I could and gave everything I had up for Him. And again I don't know about you but this makes me so so tired. It is so hard to do this and it wears me out. 1 Timothy 6:12 says "Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses." Do you grow weary at times from this whole "fight" analogy we have in scripture? I know there are days when my heart is weary of the fight. I want to give in to my pride, my selfishness, and my thoughts and not fight. If you haven't, I share this not to worry you but to simply share with you the days of weariness will come. But just as I type my weary whimpering, my heart in the depth of it knows that in my weakness He is strong and His burden is light!! Fighting the good fight will make you weary. but weariness should never make you stop fighting. It means that I keep fighting in the morning as the Lord awakens my heart to His world, instead of snoozing for 20 more minutes. It means that we keep fighting when the world says it;s not a big deal to dress the trendy way, but instead we stay trendily-modest with our fashion to directly link us to our security in the Lord. It means that we fight for souls, not grades or esteem or titles. We fight to bring glory to the Lord that has granted us access to eternity with Him. Oh my sweet friends, have you had a weary year this year? Is your fight knocked out of you from the messages the world has written on your heart? The Ultimate Trainer wants to train you each day, each moment in this fight! Get in the ring! He wants you to be His. He wants us to only focus on Him!!

Here's another song.. I know two in a row! but this song is an awesome song about "clearing the stage" and getting rid of our idols and the extremes that we may have to go through in order to 'clear our stages'