The other day someone made a rude comment to me. I don't know if it was meant to be rude or whatever, but it really effected me and I couldn't let it go. I came home thinking about it, I went to work thinking about, and I went to bed angry about it.
I tried to forget it all that time, but I couldn't. It kept hurting over and over. I was trying to make myself feel better, but all I was doing was getting more and more aggravated at the person who made the comment.
But then God reminded me, I will never get anywhere without help from Him.
God reminded me that I needed to love.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 says that;
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Sometimes I still feel a little bitter about the comment, but then I remember -I need to love. I need to remember that I've said rude comments in my life and who am I to keep a record of wrongs? I need to remember to keep striving to be more Christ like everyday, and that Christ loved so much that he died for everyone. A comment really is nothing to get worked up about.
anyways, that's it for right now.
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Sunday, November 7, 2010
God is BIGGER than everything!
Lately I've really been struggling with some things in my life. Even though I've been in high school, for what, 3 1/2 years, I'm starting to really have a hard time with it. I'm not in any hurry to graduate, but I'm tired of the smallness of it.
This world is so big, but when I'm sitting in school, trying to concentrate on whatever I'm doing, I forget that this world is huge. I start to think of the world as just high school. I forget that there's others who are less fortunate, I forget that some people don't go to school, I forget about other people and I just start thinking about me. I put school, and the drama that comes with it before God, making it my idol.
If your where one of my close friends, you'd know that I have a hard time getting really emotional and I really only cry when I laugh, or sneeze.. This morning at church though they showed a video for Operation Christmas Child, a program where shoe box's full of toys and gifts are packed up and sent off to less fortunate kids around the world, and surprisingly I cried! I honestly don't think that it was "me" crying though. Sometimes when I pray, I pray that I love others as the Lord loves, and I see others as the Lord see's them, and I think this morning he answered that prayer, and I felt the Lords heart and how he feels about the world.
What I'm trying to say is, this world is so much bigger than myself and high school, and I need to remember that. I need to constantly remember that there is people out there who need help and who need Jesus. It's time I stop acting and thinking so worldly.
BTW- this is the video I watched this morning:
Operation Christmas Child
I'm going to be packing some shoe box's, if anyone wants help out, just let me know!
"Do not be shaped by this world; instead be changed within by a new way of thinking. Then you will be able to decide what God wants for you; you will know what is good and pleasing to Him and what is perfect." -Romans 12:2 (NCV)
This world is so big, but when I'm sitting in school, trying to concentrate on whatever I'm doing, I forget that this world is huge. I start to think of the world as just high school. I forget that there's others who are less fortunate, I forget that some people don't go to school, I forget about other people and I just start thinking about me. I put school, and the drama that comes with it before God, making it my idol.
If your where one of my close friends, you'd know that I have a hard time getting really emotional and I really only cry when I laugh, or sneeze.. This morning at church though they showed a video for Operation Christmas Child, a program where shoe box's full of toys and gifts are packed up and sent off to less fortunate kids around the world, and surprisingly I cried! I honestly don't think that it was "me" crying though. Sometimes when I pray, I pray that I love others as the Lord loves, and I see others as the Lord see's them, and I think this morning he answered that prayer, and I felt the Lords heart and how he feels about the world.
What I'm trying to say is, this world is so much bigger than myself and high school, and I need to remember that. I need to constantly remember that there is people out there who need help and who need Jesus. It's time I stop acting and thinking so worldly.
BTW- this is the video I watched this morning:
Operation Christmas Child
I'm going to be packing some shoe box's, if anyone wants help out, just let me know!
"Do not be shaped by this world; instead be changed within by a new way of thinking. Then you will be able to decide what God wants for you; you will know what is good and pleasing to Him and what is perfect." -Romans 12:2 (NCV)
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