You Are Lord of Brilliant Light

Today is Friday, and since I stayed home from school today I have a nice 4 day weekend ahead of me :] maybe my Dad will let me get m lisence finally.
Pardon me if I have spelling errors on this post, this computer at my Dad's house doesn't have spell check. Anyways, Friday means Matt's youth group is tonight. I really like going there :] I'm pretty excited about it, but until then I have nothing to do. So I figured I'd write something on here that inspires some change in everyone because God has been working on me in some specific areas. Those areas are:
1] Intolerance!
2] Music
2] Love for a brother
4] Prayer
I've noticed God pointing out different truths on these areas in the past couple weeks. But I'm gonna talk about the one that's stuck out after I read Be Intolerant by Ryan Dobson..

Do you know what Moral Relativism is? Well a good way to describe it is a person who believes that there are no absolutes. Maybe who believes there is no true wrong or right [what may be right to you could be wrong to another person]. Someone who doesn't believe in being intolerant, because we should accept everyone as they are. This person may not believe in God, may not believe there is only one way to heaven. But these people are often hypocritical, you can be who you want to be and do what you want to do and we will tolerate you because that's what you think is right... Until you murder someone.. Or until you rape someone. Those things aren't accepted because they're wrong...
The fact is it's a very unstable theory, it has no standing ground, nothing written in stone and can change with the course of society. Especially when it comes to God. Moral Relavists will not tolerate the idea of one belief and one God, after all how could there only be one way to heaven? That would make it hard to tolerate everyone elses religions cause wouldn't that make them... wrong. And wouldn't that be just terrible for anyone to have to be wrong.
The fact is intolerance is not a bad thing, it's not just a hard headed thing. In fact God is intolerant!
One thing Ryan Dobson pointed out to me that I liked is this. God is not like Santa Claus, He doesn't wink at the sin of the world. He doesn't let you sit on His knee and ask what all do you want, oh forget about giving me glory, you can have that affair on your wife because she just doesn't satisfy, afterall it's not that bad. No, God says That is wrong! But He does it out of Love, He does it because He wants to see you grow and have true happiness in Him.
There is alot more to say about this. The last thing I will talk about is an analogy in the book that helped me realize the seriousness of sin.

'On May 2002 , a towboat on the Arkansas River in Oklahoma accidently pushed a barge into a concrete bridge support. The bridge was where Interstate 40 crossed the river. At the impact, a third of the bridge collapsed.
The problem was that people on the interstate couldn't see that the bridge was out. Fisherman in the boats below watched in horror as car after car shot off the edge of the bridge at seventy miles an hour... So the fisherman Alton Wilhoit grabbed a flare gun from hs boat and ran up to the interstate, where another semi was headed for the bridge. Wilhoit fired the flare...
The driver slammed on the brakes. The wheels locked up and the trailer came to a stop with the truck's front wheels hanging over the ledge. The driver threw it into reverse and pulled away, effectively blocking the road warning the other drivers.
Fourteen people died that day... But how many more would've died is Alton Wilhoit hadn't done what it took to warn the people who were blindly headed toward their death?'

Think about is like this. The interstate the drivers are headed on are like the path to an eternal death, hey have no idea because they cannot see the end result of their decisions. The flare is like the warning in God's word, without it the people won't realize that the end of the bridge is collapsed and will die. Doesn't that change your thinking a bit?
It did for me...



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The Good In Me Is Only Your Reflection

Amazing how lazy I feel.
I've been sitting here with plenty I could do, but nothing I feel like doing.
Ugh, Lord give me the motivation!
I need to do something to make change, but what to do. what to do..

The Wake Up Call

Last Friday I went to a different churches youth group. The message was centered around prayer: What prayer is, what it isn't.
The preacher, Tim, pointed out that Jesus prays for us even when we don't know what to pray for. He said that prayer is something of importance, because it is directly speaking to God. He mentioned the message in the Bible talking about the hypocrites, praying in front of people to be noticed. But the thing that really hit me about his message was that he said sometimes God would wake him in the middle of the night just to pray, and that he didn't exactly know what he was supposed to be praying for, but he prayed.
I had never heard someone say that before, waking up to pray. I thought about how even if I did wake up in the middle of the night I wouldn't know to pray, that I'd be so out of it I wouldn't be able to think right enough to pray.

Saturday night I couldn't sleep. I did sleep until about 2, but then I was awake. I wondered why in the world I woke up. I was completely comfortable. Then I realized, maybe God wants me to pray.. And I did. I prayed for about 3 hours until i finally dozed off. 3 hours! It was so strange. It changed my view on prayer. Half of the time I wasn't even asking God for anything. Just thinking, talking the way you would to a friend. It was amazing.



But besides the awesomeness that happened this weekend.
I feel like there's a lot of work to do in my life. There's so much going on. I'm going to be driving soon and working. The school year is halfway over. There's dramatic change occurring all the time. I'm excited. :]
I've been thinking about what I want to be..
Maybe I can be in a band but what are the chances of that going somewhere?
Maybe I should be a nurse but do i have what it takes? or even a passion for it?
Or maybe a teacher.. Or an Artist.. Or.. Or .. I have no clue..

What does God want to do with me? :That's the question that's been bugging me for awhile now. He will have His way in the end, but I'm so eager to know what I'll be good at and what I'll do. It's like a kid waiting to open the largest Christmas present. I know I like it either way, but what could it possibly be!? But I have to wait patiently.
All I know is I want to be a influence on people. But who knows what God wants. Could be something very very different.


Oh well. We'll see eventually.
Until then..


>> Chelsy

An Amazing thing.

Like I said, I'm trying not to live by feelings, but not all feelings are bad you know. Happiness is one of my favorites. Most of the time we all experience this when we get our own way, but that statement doesn't always imply somethings wrong in your life either. Tonight something happened my way because I wanted God's way. His will, His control in my life, His Son being my main focus. I'm slowly achieving that and gaining so much joy from it. I was able to deal with things all though they weren't exactly how I would have chosen, God is getting SO much glory and in the end I will be happy no matter what happens, I know He'll make sure of that. Isn't it great we have such a sovereign and loving God in our midst! He knows the depths of my heart and He loves me the same. I want I could praise Him with every breath of life He gives me. You are truly amazing God and I won't have to paste a smile on my face tomorrow when I walk in school. And when people ask me how I can do that I tell them about you! I truly and deeply adore you.

The Love of God

There are so many things I could say. This weekend has been so difficult but so amazing, how passion can spark in your life so quick and all your focus is on God! for the first time in my life I feel so alive. I've been dead all these years and never noticed it. I can't live that way any longer, I'm ready to be who God made me to be. I'm amazed, in awe, in shock and if I could I would stand up and appauld during service and shout "amazing". I want to dedicate my life to a cause that is sufficient enough for Him.
An amazing thing, my grandma wrote me a letter telling me how proud she was of me for going to church without any other family and to be able to sing in front of everyone for God. I've never felt so great. And not because I was thinking "look at what I'VE aacomplished" more like "LOOK what is possible in Christ, when you obey Him there are no limits! when you pray to Him glory is clearly there!"
Today wasn't just another Sunday, This weekend wasn't just another weekend, This was a glorious change in my life! I'm ready to serve :]
I want what you want for me Lord, and if i ever want anything else, humble me and judge me.
I hope all you people on Facebook have the same belief. I hope you seek salvation! Because the time is so near! I pray you keep me accountable and you have faith in yourself.
Everything I do is not possible without HIM!