So in Chapel on Monday (just wanna say the thing I love about it is that the people who attend actually want to be there because it's not required not that requiring chapel attendance is a bad thing but it's just encouraging to see so many people come anyway!)
Ross was talking about sin and how so often we think that cause we avoid the "BIG" sins such as murder, stealing, etc. we are fine. Which is so NOT true! God doesn't rank sin, if we've broken one commandment we've broken them all!
Chapel played very nicely into what I was reading in my devotions that night, James 4:4 says "You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God." I was struck with how there is NO MIDDLE GROUND! You are either on Gods side or the worlds. Which side are you going to choose?
I've really been convicted about this the last couple of days and realized I need to make more of a conscious effort to be on Gods side of this line!
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Sunday, September 19, 2010
God is AMAZING
Do you ever just get overwhelmed with God? I think that should happen to all of us every once in a while. To be caught in a moment where you can't believe how good God is and how amazing it is that He cares about every little detail in my life.
When I first moved back to school I felt kinda lost. I had no transition time and went from amazing friends and people around me who challenge and encourage me spiritually to being the very first student to move into my dorm cause most of my athletic training classmates live off-campus and feeling like I didn't fit in. I would describe how I feel as being out of place, I act, live, and talk differently and have different things that drive me in life specifically God is the source of my vision and passion in life while that is not evident in all of my classmates lives.
As the weeks have progressed God has blessed me in so many ways, from Heather Reissner coming to the cities and us getting to have coffee, Aaron coming to show me their new car and take a walk while we caught up, making muffins with Erin, trying to go boating and then going to a church picnic with the Hannah and the Szajners, watching movies, hanging out, going shopping, and going out to lunch with my sis, getting to see Abby and Joe when they were in town, an amazing roommate who is also passionate about God, the awesome Bethel Women Soccer team who are just a solid group of girls, and Jaime the ATC I get to work with who I have gotten to know on a lot deeper level these past 6 weeks. (hard to believe I've already been here for 6 weeks!) AND hard to believe that 2 weeks from now I will be going to Aaron and Liz's wedding!!! I'm super excited for that! :)
I truly can't imagine my life without God in it. Although I definitely don't give Him all the time and attention that He deserves, He is a part of me that I cherish.
When I first moved back to school I felt kinda lost. I had no transition time and went from amazing friends and people around me who challenge and encourage me spiritually to being the very first student to move into my dorm cause most of my athletic training classmates live off-campus and feeling like I didn't fit in. I would describe how I feel as being out of place, I act, live, and talk differently and have different things that drive me in life specifically God is the source of my vision and passion in life while that is not evident in all of my classmates lives.
As the weeks have progressed God has blessed me in so many ways, from Heather Reissner coming to the cities and us getting to have coffee, Aaron coming to show me their new car and take a walk while we caught up, making muffins with Erin, trying to go boating and then going to a church picnic with the Hannah and the Szajners, watching movies, hanging out, going shopping, and going out to lunch with my sis, getting to see Abby and Joe when they were in town, an amazing roommate who is also passionate about God, the awesome Bethel Women Soccer team who are just a solid group of girls, and Jaime the ATC I get to work with who I have gotten to know on a lot deeper level these past 6 weeks. (hard to believe I've already been here for 6 weeks!) AND hard to believe that 2 weeks from now I will be going to Aaron and Liz's wedding!!! I'm super excited for that! :)
I truly can't imagine my life without God in it. Although I definitely don't give Him all the time and attention that He deserves, He is a part of me that I cherish.
Friday, September 17, 2010
WOW
So being away for the summer in a place where I rarely had internet access and if I did it was amazing or I would rather talk to people than sit at the computer all the time.
So this post is going to be a list of things I learned this summer whether that's stuff about trip leading or stuff God taught me (and He taught me a lot so this could be kinda long... :)
1. God knows what we need so much better than what we think! My trip partner and I both came into the summer having not really gotten along the previous summer. And came out of the summer really good friends.
2. I came to the realization that although somedays I might want a guy in my life I am perfectly content where I am at and that I desire deep friendship rather than a boyfriends in particular.
3. God blessed me this summer with Maia Reissner and the rest of the Reissner family. That little girl has me wrapped around her finger... I'd pretty much do anything for her :) Just to illustrate her deep love for me, she would go around the table looking at Eric, Aaron, and whoever else was over giving them her attitude face and then look at me with the biggest grin and sweetest eyes and say "I love my Houser!" seriously though that girl would light up AND make me light up every time I saw her running across the patio to give me a hug when I'd get home from trips!
4. I met two amazing guys this summer who were such a great example of Godly men. Both of them are now engaged (one getting married in less than a month!) and I'm so thankful for the awesome examples of godly relationships they lived out for me. Words really can't describe how much I appreciate both of them.
5. One thing that I came into the summer wanting to focus on was my prayer life. It is one of the areas in my Christian life that I struggle with the most. It was so cool throughout the summer to feel God laying things on my heart and to see visual answers to those prayers whether it was the amazing attitudes of our first trip when it poured the entire week or one of the last weeks when one of the girls prayed for the mosquito's to go away and God sent dragonfly's to eat them!
6. to be continued
So this post is going to be a list of things I learned this summer whether that's stuff about trip leading or stuff God taught me (and He taught me a lot so this could be kinda long... :)
1. God knows what we need so much better than what we think! My trip partner and I both came into the summer having not really gotten along the previous summer. And came out of the summer really good friends.
2. I came to the realization that although somedays I might want a guy in my life I am perfectly content where I am at and that I desire deep friendship rather than a boyfriends in particular.
3. God blessed me this summer with Maia Reissner and the rest of the Reissner family. That little girl has me wrapped around her finger... I'd pretty much do anything for her :) Just to illustrate her deep love for me, she would go around the table looking at Eric, Aaron, and whoever else was over giving them her attitude face and then look at me with the biggest grin and sweetest eyes and say "I love my Houser!" seriously though that girl would light up AND make me light up every time I saw her running across the patio to give me a hug when I'd get home from trips!
4. I met two amazing guys this summer who were such a great example of Godly men. Both of them are now engaged (one getting married in less than a month!) and I'm so thankful for the awesome examples of godly relationships they lived out for me. Words really can't describe how much I appreciate both of them.
5. One thing that I came into the summer wanting to focus on was my prayer life. It is one of the areas in my Christian life that I struggle with the most. It was so cool throughout the summer to feel God laying things on my heart and to see visual answers to those prayers whether it was the amazing attitudes of our first trip when it poured the entire week or one of the last weeks when one of the girls prayed for the mosquito's to go away and God sent dragonfly's to eat them!
6. to be continued
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