True Faith and God Is

Today was a great day at church! The worship was amazing and we moved into our new small groups with our new leaders! I cannot say how grateful I am for my leaders! They are people who have known me for years and I can't wait to get to know them. This morning our preacher talked about repentance and having faith. He talked about a verse in Acts that really stood out to me. "I have had one message for Jews and Greeks alike—the necessity of repenting from sin and turning to God, and of having faith in our Lord Jesus." (Acts 20:21) There are two things that you need to do to have genuine TRUE repentance. A lot of the time in the church out repentance is fake. And if you look at things in life there are a lot of fake things fake money, pearls, people, cars etc. The list goes on and on but there is one thing you cannot be fake about and that is your relationship with Jesus Christ. He sees what is on the inside and what is one the outside, but you know what he still loves you! The two things that you must do are repent. That means a change in mind, thought, and actions. You have to recognize your sin and turn from it towards God. The other thing you have to do is have faith! Believe in God cause he is the only one that can save you. Repenting and Having faith will lead to a strong relationship with Christ. In James it talks about having faith with out actions/deed is dead faith. When you turn to God you cannot let your faith be fake, just like many things in this world are fake, make sure you aren't one of them. If you do have faith make sure it is faith with deeds and not dead faith. #checkyoself and make sure that you faith leads you to actions that serve and share our faith with others.
In small group today we talked about Isaiah 40:18, "To whom can you compare God? What image can you find to resemble him?" God created us in his image and He loves us. He does not conform to us we must conform to him. What can you compare God to? God is! God is everything, magnificent, beautiful, loving, and the list goes on and on. God is! There is nothing that we can look at and say that is what God is, because guess what he is everything. We make up all these images in our mind of what God really looks like, but we dont realize that when we do that we are making God like us, not us like God. God can never compare to anything or resemble anything we imagine him looking like. God is God! God is....? (now you fill in the blank)

Unbelievable the Power of God

I am in total shock! Only a couple of days ago my friend and her sister made the news because of the type of cancer she has and what her sister has gone through with her brain tumors. As I watched the newscast I was just in tears! I truly do not understand God's plans for that little girl, but he will make her great. She is a true inspiration to me. She was able to share her story with every single person watching the news the other night. She got to share the word of God to people who might have never known who God even was. She is brave and strong, she is a great example to how our faith should look like in the hard times and curve balls that God throws at us. As I visited the newscast online today there is a place to leave comments. I was not expecting to see many people comment, but when I scrolled down there were over 800 comments! That is truly from God! They were from people all over the nation! I truly am speechless. I was just in tears when I read some of the posts. When I visited her, it is hard to not cry with what she is having to go through, but I realize that if I cry she will cry and it would not be a good day. I try to bring her happiness when I visit. But right now I am not allowed to visit because of her count. :( I cannot wait to see this little girl she means so much to me and has been an inspiration to a lot of people, including myself.  She might not know that she inspires so many people or even that so many people support her and are continually praying for her, but she does know the Lord is always with her and will never leave her. She is very brave and although she is facing great difficulty with success, I believe that God has given her strength and will have great plans for her life. I want to encourage people to keep praying for her, her sister, and her family and for a quick miraculous recovery!


Guidance for my day:


Sometimes I do not understand why God puts me through all the stuff he does, but in the end I know God is greater and his plans will always succeed. Although sometimes I think I can see the big picture, I really can't. God has plans for me and I may not understand why things happen or I might question and be angry with God because I don't understand. But I need to realize God will always be there and protect me. His love never fails me. †

It's so Unfair

           As I read blog after blog and caringbridge after caringbridge it just seems so unreal that all these people have been diagnosed with/conquered/died of/ cancer. I think about everything I go through in a day like sitting in traffic, being late to a meeting, forgetting to eat lunch then complaining about it, not being able to hang out with friends, my phone not working, and just wasting my time watching tv. I realize this is nothing compared to that of cancer patients. One of my dear friends who is a couple of years younger than me is going through Leukemia and it amazes me how strong she is! She is an inspiration to me. As a read their blog I stand amazed at what she goes through everyday. She wakes up at 5:30 in the morning and has radiation then she comes back to her room and has to take meds and then she goes to sleep then she wakes up has to eat crappy cafeteria food and then takes more meds and has to walk 10+ laps around the BMT unit. Then she goes back to radiation. After radiation, she comes back to her room and tries to go to sleep but she wakes up in the middle of the night nauseous and then pukes. She has sores all over her mouth. Within her daily jobs she has to rinse her mouth 5 times and do other little stuff to take care of her body and keep herself from becoming sick. As I read all of these pages I often see, IT’S SO UNFAIR. I realize that yes it is unfair, even I say that and I do not even have cancer. Why do I get cancer but he/she does not? Why, Why, Why? Was there a way to prevent this? What do I do now?

         Life is unfair, but what we do not look at is the positive of every situation. When we find out bad news, it makes us angry and most of the time we take our anger out on God or the others around us.  We need to know that becoming angering is a sin. In Psalm 37:7 it says, “Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him; do not fret when men succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes”. The Lord does not want us to be angry and he does not want to think life is unfair, even though sometimes we think it is. Life is not fair that God had to sacrifice his one and only son because we sinned. How unfair is that? We all desereved hell and nothing better but God sacrificed for us because he loves us that much. So when we look at our lives we really need a reality check and say, “Yeah it isn’t fair but neither was the choice God made for us.” We need to suck it up and look to God for answers instead of complaining.

         When we look at everything going on in our lives we need to realize there is a bigger picture than what we see. God sees the whole picture and our whole life. We can only see parts of it and sometimes we are so blinded by the world that we do not see any of the plans God has for us. We need to pray and open up to God and say it is okay and let God handle our unfairness and our anger.

About Me

I  am a high school student trying to live in the light of God and share my story to others reading my blog. I have grown up in church but have never really felt God in my life until my freshman year in high school. I was on a school retreat and really felt God was calling me to be baptized. I was baptized when I was born but I felt as though that was my parent’s decision not mine. I wanted my faith to be mine. Unique and special to me, because in the end all that matters is your relationship with the King. I am really happy I made the choice to be baptized into the Christian faith. It is truly amazing how many people are there to support you. With in the week after my baptism, I had received congratulation cards and welcoming gifts from friends and family. The experience was awesome! All my friends and family were there for me and my dad baptized me. It was an incredible feeling knowing that my father loved me and supported me in my faith and my decision to make my faith mine. From then on I made a decision to live and to walk with Christ and let his light shine through me.