You Are Amazing God!

Today at youth we had a worship service, so we spent all of youth time praying, singing, and reading scripture. We were singing the song 'Indescribable'. Something just welled up inside me and I was just overwhelmed with God's infinate power and His love for me. I found myself crying right there (and I don't usually cry about anything). God showed me how broken I am and just how much I need him (which is a lot by the way) and I just love Him sooooo much. Living for God never felt sooo awesome! I didn't know it was possible but I love Him more today than I did yesterday ,and guess what, it doesn't even compare to His infinate love for me! He loves all of us so much He sent His son to earth to die for our sins! I would keep writing all night long but I have to get some sleep so I can wake up refreshed to live for Him.
Night everybody

Looking Back, Moving Foward

I have been thinking about how far in my Christian faith I have come, and I feel so awesome to know that I am in a close relationship with God. I also know I still have very far to go in my relationship with Him. Knowing God has brought so many opportunities in my life and opened my eyes to a lot of things. There is no telling what my life would be like without God.

Unexpected Visitor

Part of my old self came back today, my new self didn't like him all that much. Luckily my new self fought back to keep me out of trouble. I just hope I can get rid of old Caleb before he does get me in trouble.

Steps Lead To Strides

I decided to read the Bible at lunch today. I have been thinking about it for months and I kept making excuses not to. Nobody even acnowledged that I was even doing it, I was fine with that because I don't like to be disturbed while I'm reading anyway. In the Bible the book of Mathew mentions Jesus saying that you don't put a lamp under a bowl, you put a lamp on a stand. He said that you should let your good deeds shine before men, so that they will see your good deeds and praise God. Reading that is what pushed me to take that step. I NEEDED to put my lamp on the stand, and sure enough a kid I ate lunch with comented on my Bible reading being "cool". I wonder how many people will see my light tomorrow?

The Narrow Path

I am reading 'The Hobbit' by J.R.R. Tolkien and the fourth chapter really grabbed my attention. Since J.R.R. Tolkien is a Christian writer, a lot of the situations and characters are based on scripture. At the beginning of the fourth chapter Gandalf, the dwarfs, and the hobbit came to a point where the road they were traveling on forked into several roads. There are several easy paths but most of them are full of evil, on the right there is a steep rock path overgrown with weeds. The easy paths are the paths the paths that lead to Hell, the right path leads to God. Gandalf chooses the right path. Not very long afterward, the mountains randomly come alive during a thunder storm and start throwing rocks at each other. The dwarfs, Gandalf, and the hobbit are irritated and scared so they start looking for shelter, eventually they find a cave and settle down for the night. BIG MISTAKE! Instead of toughing it out when things got rough they tried to avoid it. In the middle of the night goblins (the demons) emerge from a crack in the back of the cave and pull everyone into it. The goblins chain their hands behind their backs and take them to J.J.R. Tolkien's version of Hell.

On that happy note, let's get on to the lesson to be learned. Being a Christian can be very difficult at times but that doesn't mean we run to shelter. Jesus didn't run away when he knew he was going to be arrested, follow his example. Sometimes Satan puts obstacles in your way and God allows it because He knows if you have faith in Him you can overcome that obstacle easily. Straying from the path to God has consequences.

Praise The Lord!

Today in youth group we were talking about different ways we worship God. Whenever I think of worship I think of people singing gospel music. Music is a big part of worship but Captain Awesome (not real name although he is super awesome) our youth director focused on other ways to worship God such as praying. We don't really think of praying as worship. If someone worships something they want to spend as much time with that thing as possible. Since praying is like spending time with God we all agreed that praying is a way of worshiping. We all have a way we like to worship God and mine is reading the Bible. I try my best to read scripture everyday and I highlight verses that grab me and that I can apply to my daily life. It's like reading a note from God, how cool is that? Since God comes first, we all need a little worship time everyday whether it's praying, listening to Chrstian music, or reading the Bible (all three will work too). What do you do?

Chip Off The Old Block

My Grandpa just called and told my dad he had been in a wreck, his car is a little banged up but he's fine. I can't count on my fingers and toes how many random car accidents my dad and grandpa have had. The only thing the wrecks don't hurt is themselves, I thank God for that. I think I have even tapped in on their bad luck with all the bike accidents I have had.

You Can't Win Them All

The speech competition was yesterday. I got honorable mention. It was better than I thought it would, now it's all over and I can finally get some sleep. I'm really glad that God put this opportunity in my life and that I took advantage of it.

Postponed

I found out today that my speech competition has been postponed until next week because of dum snow. I feel dissapointed and relieved at the same time.

Facing The Music

I have been doing so much better in all my classes...except for band. I play the clarinet in band class. I'm just so busy that sometimes I only get to practice 5 minutes. I try to make sure that I practice the clarinet an hour everyday but I just have so much trouble with all the notes that I feel like I'll never live up to the expectations of the band teacher no matter how hard I try. I can't practice with the band teacher after school because that just takes up time that I don't have. I make a homework schedule everyday and average the amount of time on each thing and it usually adds up to about 5 hours of homework. I don't know whether to quit or tough it out. Am I giving up or admitting my limits? At youth group the other day (during the super bowl party) we talked about how God helps us through our problems and is always there for us. God wants me to try my best in everything I do. I hope my best is enough.

The Case of Christ

I was watching this movie with my dad called 'The Case of Christ'. It was a true story about this atheist who researched everything about Christianity to prove it wrong, but guess what? He ended up converting to Christianity. There is proof!!!

Tomorrow

Every night I worry about tomorow. I worry about things I want to do or wish I could have done today. I worry about the classes I take or how to avoid the mistakes I made today. I have also been stressed about my speech as I have told you before in the past couple posts. I was reading through the book of Matthew in the Bible and stumbled across a verse that said not to worry about tomorrow because tomorrow is full of stuff you don't even know about so even if you try to it doesn't make a difference. Tomorrow holds troubles if it's own. I read it over and over again, I'm still trying to wrap my head around not worrying about tomorrow, it's a whole new concept to me. Maybe sleeping would help. Hehe. I'm about to go cross eyed anyway.