Today was Christmas. It was awesome. I got to play outside w/ my cousins and hang out with a friend I haven't seen in a really long time. Christmas was just an all-around amazing time. So in my other blog I had been focusing on backing in the presence of God and who he is. It was a great feeling. I've been able to relax and just let God be the center of my life (It also helped that I didn't have to deal w/ the stress of school). In this Christmas season full of tragedy and bad news I was able to rely on a God that was bigger than all that.
One of my biggest concerns lately has been the Freshmen Break-out that is going to happen at my school on the 4th. It ties in w/ my dreams for my freshmen class to really start becoming the church. To do something big and amazing and deathstarian (I JUST LOVE THAT WORD). I've been assigned w/ a special task as class prez and I'll just reveal that I'm doing something w/ glowsticks... 40 glowsticks.... that I hadn't yet bought.
Procrastination is a word that can pretty much describe my task behavior. As a result, I get stressed, and as a result of that, don't trust in God. Crazy thing is that everything would be fine and dandy if I didn't procrastinate and did trust in God. Such wasn't the case this week and I was beginning to get worried... until of course I had my encounter w/ Bear. His perspective check helped a lot.
Another aspect of the soup kitchen church was the signs all around. They had the names of God. One of the things I know God as is "The Provider". My mom told me this once "Make sure that you long for the Provider before the Provision". It makes sense now... Why ask of things from God instead of asking FOR God? It hit me today as I opened my Christmas present... 40 glowsticks... that's right... my parents are awesome!
It hit me that God provides what we need when we need it. First, we have to realize that we need God and then everything else is pretty much a bonus. At Camp Elim this summer my camp service team leader read us a quote from the Chronicles of Narnia that went something like this: Lucy says to Aslan "Aslan, it's not Narnia that we'll miss... It's you". That's how we should be w/ God. It's not the benefits or the greatness or even passion... it's the true, pure love for an eternal, loving God. That love surpasses anything. It's a matter of picking God over the glowsticks.
Pic of Family Christmas:
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