Friday, January 20, 2012

Comfort Zones and Solid Truth

Yayy so happy this blog got re-started! I love writing about stuff that God has shown me or others, and I actually have my own blog that I haven't been very consistent with..but I love this, and that it's for all the leadership groups now!
I just wanted to tell you guys about a couple things God has shown me even in the past few days.Really random stuff, but stuff that I love.
Today in English, of all classes, we were talking about a book that we had to read over the summer, and how it has a lot of hidden meanings, or allegory's, which I'm sure a lot of ya'll have studied in english. But we started getting on to the topic of religious allegory's, and if there were any in the book we were reading. The cool thing was that all of the symbols we found that had to do with religion had to do with one religion-Christianity. Yeah, the book was probably written by a Christian author, but the kids in my class, even some that may not be believers, were able to point out stuff from the Christian faith! That just filled me with so much joy, and it was like God was reminding me how solid his word of truth is.
Something else God's been doing...My school is weird, so that we only have four classes a day, and those classes stay the same for a whole semester, then we switch out our core classes in January. We just switched classes, and even though I'm a sophomore, and I've been through the mid year switch before, this week has probably been one of the most UNcomfortable weeks of my life. I had grown to really like my classes last semester, and I knew the people, and, ultimately my friends who weren't believers, I was able to get to know them better and how and when the right time would be to bring up my faith. Then I come in this week, with all new people and new challenges in all my classes. I don't know these people, let alone if they're believers or not. And on top of it, I was sick this week, and I've been at school all this week until around 10 doing dress rehearsals for our school's musical that opens tomorrow. Yesterday at school, I was probably in one of the worst moods I have ever been in this schoolyear. I didn't WANT to love people, let alone be around them, and I missed being comfortable in my old classes, around people I knew. And why in the WORLD was God letting me get SICK on this week of all the weeks he could choose?
Even just throughout today God has reminded me that, oh guess what, this life is NOT about me. Because of my sin, I shouldn't even be allowed to live-and now I'm asking for the God who died for me to accomodate me? I feel like this week God has truly taken me out of my comfort zone, not only to challenge me to be bolder, and to love different people, but also to remind me that He's GOD and I'm not.
I love how He works!!!
Guys, super super pumped for this summer! Session 6 quest and session 4 sigma! Let me know when you're going!!!(:

1 comment:

  1. Hannah thanks so much for sharing!!!

    What cool ways that God is showing you things in your everyday life at school. Looking forward to hearing more soon!

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