Once again I found myself debating about what do write about for this post and struggling with the fact that I am resolved to not merely rant and rave about what else could go wrong or how stressed I am or how thousands of emotions coursing through my veins has my nerves rubbed raw.
And even now as I type this I have absolutely nothing on my mind but the fact that I have to wake up in 6.5 hours to finish my laundry list of things to do.
Speaking of laundry lists of things to do, I can check "blogging" off in a few minutes: HOORAY! I just knew you were dying to hear from me.
The topic of laundry lists could keep me going forever. So let's continue with this train of thought! Why do we put God on our laundry list?! Is he really not sovereign enough in our lives to be more than something to check off our list, or part of our routine, but something we long to do each day? As I get older and gain the infinite wisdom about the world that every college student does (yeah...right) I realize that even though we may not want to spend time with God and get to know Him and delve into His word more than once or twice a week in corporate worship or in small group, He longs to spend time with us!
Isn't it amazing to you that the God of the universe is in a constant pursuit of a relationship with you? So why can't we ever seem to want to spend time with him? It's like Brad Pitt chasing you down the street, calling your name and you just keep walking.....except WAY more important....it's kind of a matter of life and death with God. Not kind of. It IS. Eternity, in fact. Eternal life or eternal pain and suffering. (as if we don't get enough pain and suffering from the world! I'll take eternal life!) But it's not just life! It's an eternity of praising the amazing, wonderful, loving, just God without persecution! No more worrying, or pain, or stress, or any of the stupid stuff we have to put up with here. And let me tell you it's gonna be GREAT!
Speaking of life and death: in Life Group tonight we were talking about the passage in 2 Corinthians 2:14-16 that talks about being the sweet aroma of life or the rancid aroma of death. When we live out the gospel, we are a sweet aroma not only of life in Christ, but God "smells" it and it reminds Him of His son, isn't that great? We can "smell" like Christ! But when we don't live out the gospel, we smell like death. gross. I think I'd rather smell something like....Forever Sunshine or Twilight Woods from Bath and Body Works or better yet...JESUS! (I'm working under the assumption that Jesus smells better to God than He did while He was human considering that He didn't get to bathe every day like we do. But it's metaphor, so it's OK).
Well, this is what happens when I try to blog about important stuff at 1 o'clock in the morning. My typical though processes end up on the world wide web...yeah. this goes on in my head pretty much all day and every day. Scary isn't it?
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