| | Alright... I'm feeling good about this. Xanga is making a comeback. Even if it's just for tonight. :)
I just read through a lot of my old posts. It was good to remember the places that I've been in my life, and how God has brought me through to the place I am now. Looking back on what has happened since this June, it has definitely been all God carrying me. I'm thankful for the things God has done and is doing in my life.
This semester I have been getting much more involved at school than I had been, and I am very thankful for that. I moved into a house right next to campus this January with some guys I met on my trip to Florida over Christmas break. I'm living with 12 other guys, and so far it has been a great experience! I got a job working on campus (also through someone I met in Florida over break) and I'm thinking about moving into the residence halls for the fall semester. I have plans to go to a camp in Pennsylvania this summer for three months. It will be the longest time I have ever spent away from the familiar, but I hope that God will do a lot in and through me this summer. I'm also getting more involved with the college ministry at the Chapel in Akron (which is who the Florida trip was with). I've gotten to know a large number of the people there, and I've been helping twice a month at the tech desk for worship. I am very happy to have a place to serve God.
I was thinking about serving God today. Well, I thought I was thinking about serving God, but I was actually thinking more about serving myself. I believe that serving God will eventually lead to the ultimate fulfillment and satisfaction. I have been serving God with that in mind, but lately I think that has become too much of a focus for me. If I'm only serving God for what I can get out of it, then I am really serving myself. That's not really serving God at all. I was reflecting on it a little bit, and I found that I am actually very concerned with pleasing myself. When I pray, I find myself asking God why I feel so unfulfilled instead of seeking to know Him more or to be more pleasing to Him. I decided to do a little Bible study on the topic of pleasing God (using a new Bible study tool that I found at http://beta.biblestudytools.com/) I found that what pleases God is more an attitude of the heart than the specific actions we perform:
Hebrews 11:6 "...without faith it is impossible to please Him..."
Psalm 147:10-11 "His pleasure is not in the strength of the horse, nor his delight in the legs of a man; the LORD delights in those who fear him, who put their hope in his unfailing love."
Psalm 51:16-17 "You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise."
1 Chronicles 29:17 "I know, my God, that you test the heart and are pleased with integrity. All these things have I given willingly and with honest intent."
And I was also reminded that I can't work out the heart change that I need on my own:
Phil 2:13 "…work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure."
So there's an update on my life. Pray that God will continue to work in me both to will and do for His good pleasure. :)
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