Hey Quest!
I am so pumped that we are keeping this alive and allowing God to work in all of our lives though it! So Romans 11 says a lot to me. The part that got me the most excited was verse 4, God says that he has 7,000 men who have not bowed a knee to ba'al...7,000! I have been in this place before where i have said "God im all alone, there are no other christians at my school, at my job or wherever i go." This is so encouraging because this blog proves that WE are the 7,000. To each other, we represent those 7,000 that are still faithful to God. it is so easy to look at our schools and our cities and say that there are no other christians like us, but God is telling us we aren't looking hard enough. We have this opportunity that others do not have, to look at this blog and see for ourselves how many others are posting and following the reading plan. We have an opportunity to read each others posts, pray for each other and pull encouragement from each others words. God is the only one who can give us courage, but this battle is so much easier if we don't try to do it on our own. We are not alone.
My second favorite part is where David prays that people would stumble so they fall into salvation...how cool is that?! A lot of times i know God reaches me the most is when i fall or when i break under pressure. its almost like God has to break us before he can put us back together and leave out selfishness and pride and all other human nature we fight against. What better way to be broken than in the presence of God??! I have a perfect example, I play bass for my youth group's band. Tonight i showed up and everyone got there early and set up already. So i started to play and my mind went blank, whats going on ive played these songs before, i know how to do this? After practice was almost over i felt completely lost and i didnt want to hold everyone back so i asked my friend to play for me. i felt like such a failure, i thought i let everyone down. Then service came and i had the most amazing time with God ever because i was broken and empty. God will never waste your hurt.
I mis you all terribly!
-Lila
lila! its so good to hear from you.... i dont know if you have been posting for the past little while but I have been doing a bad job of keeping up. It was really cool to read your post and it is so true. I made a dumb decision earlier this semester and it totally broke me, but God used my brokeness to show me and love me in ways that I couldn't have imagined if I was just doing "fine"
ReplyDeleteThanks, I miss everyone from quest so much! I quit posting for a long time because I didn't have my priorites in order but I made the blog my homepage and I was just about to go past it and get on facebook and I saw yours and Whitley's posts about this blog dying and I realized how much I didn't want that to happen. So I'm back to posting and its an awesome accountability, thanks for your encouragement.
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