a few thoughts...
Today I have had a very interesting day!
I woke up this morning feeling more ill than I did yesterday- which I thought was impossible, but despite my head pounding and me feeling miserable I thought "Thank you Lord...i'm alive, i'm living...I have a roof over my head, food to eat...thank you, thank you!"
I spent the morning in town with my old music teacher, a lovely Jewish lady. It was so good to talk to her again, she has been very good to me over the past few years... kind of like a second mum :-)
I came home, intending to get some college work done but it just wasn't happening. "I'm turning into a typical, lazy teenager" were my initial thoughts...and then my senses told me "You work too hard...rest, spend some time with the Lord, thre's plenty of time for work" So my afternoon was spent talking to God, working a little bit on my church website...(which is dreadful...i'm gonna end up paying somebody to do it!) and talking to a few friends (online...since my voice has been affected by this cold so much that I can hardly talk...a blessing some would say!!!)
I had a few interesting discussions online today, that led me to believe that God had kept me near to the computer for a reason. The first went along the lines of wondering whether it's wrong to sing some Christian songs, where we promise to follow God forever and whole heartedly... after all, the Bible says,
But above all, my brethren, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or with any other oath. But let your "Yes" be "Yes," and your "No," "No," lest you fall into judgment.
Lets take one of my favourite songs as an example..."This is my desire, to honour you, Lord with all my heart, I worship you" I'm sure that these lyrics can be easily looked up on the internet since I wouldn't want to breach any copyright laws! I love this song...and when I sing this, I do honestly completely mean it at the time...but I always seem to fail to live up to my expectations because i'm far from perfect. Am I therefore making a promise that I cannot keep? Is this wrong? I ould love feedback on this because I think it's a very interesting question.
The second of my discussions really brought home the importance of teens in particular having God in their lives. A very good friend of mine is in a serious relationship, and as a Christian, he's very aware that he should perhaps have certain restraints within this relationship, and that certain things are to be shared between a man and his wife. He opened up to me today and was telling me that he'd taken things too far with his girlfriend and that he was having huge regrets, and felt like he was now unclean, and unworthy of God's love. Not only this, but he thought that some of the things that he'd done in his life meant that God really couldn't possibly love him.
When he told me this, how I wanted to hug him and tell him that everything was ok. We all make mistakes in our lives, don't we? Everybody has their downfalls. For me it's my stubborness and my difficulty in finding forgivness for others (both of which I am working on!) I know how upset, and how sorry he is about it, and I explained that there's nothing that he could do in his life that was too big for God to forgive. Sometimes God's love is so hard for us to comprehend. I mean, why would God want to love someone like me...I haven't done anything particularly great in life... but he does! It's amazing! Anyway, not having been in his situation, all I could advice him to do was pray, and ask God for forgivness and to read his Bible. I believe that Satan wants us to be full of guilt, and not to accept forgivness in order for us to be pushed further away from God... and we must not let that happen... "How deep the Father's love for us... how vast beyond all measure :-)"
God bless xxx
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Author: emmalea
Location: Staffordshire United Kingdom
Gender: Female
Age: 19
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i became a christian on 6th december 2005, after a long struggle to find the lord. being the daughter of a minister, the sister-in-law of a pastor, the sister of a youth pastor and a "pretty good teen" by most standards, i guess, to some extent, i greatly assumed my...
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