Worldview class - because of the previously mentioned crazy friends - we've drawn ducks out of the capital letter S (before class officially started :), made fun of the old/poorly done lectures/movies we have to watch, fought over seating arrangements, and other fun stuff :)
This music video - haha there's nothing better than grown men acting like kids :) And it's a catchy song :)
The word "ooze" - in a prayer with the youth group worship team, our leader couldn't think of the word he wanted when he was asking for the Holy Spirit to come and move during worship, so he just used "ooze," and we were all like, "what?":) Haha so now ooze is a funny word to me :)
Me - haha sometimes I have to just laugh at myself - like the other day I came to the realization that the Winter Olympics are in the Winter, not the Summer :)
Here are all the random pictures I've taken recently that don't deserve their own post :) (These are all unedited by the way because I can't stand editing and I don't do it unless I really have to :)
To be honest, we as Christians aren't doing a great job of shining the light of Christ into the world....and the reason is that we don't have love. Just think about what would happen if the body of Christ loved like Jesus did. What would change if a love riot broke out among the people of God - if we as Christians didn't just put on our church face on Sunday and live like everyone else throughout the week, but if we lived through the week like people who had been redeemed by love and whose ultimate goal was to show others the love that saved us. Jesus took the lowliest positions He could - He could've had a palace with servants waiting on Him hand and foot - He deserved it! But that's not what He did, did He? He washed His disciples feet. He physically touched those who were outcasts in their communities and showed them He cared. He didn't lash back or preach a sermon to the people who spit in His face. He didn't avoid people because they were dirty, sinners who did everything unholy - he sought them out.
What if we did that too? We could advance the kingdom of God so far if we just started loving people like we did.
"if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us."
-1 John 4:12
You wanna show the world God? If you love others, He will live in you, and the world will see God's love through your love.
My heart and my soul I give you control Consume me from the inside out, Lord Let justice and praise Become my embrace To love you from the inside out Everlasting Your light will shine when all else fades Never ending Your glory goes beyond all fame And the cry of my hear is to bring you praise From the inside out, Lord, my soul cries out
It can be so easy for us to look perfect on the outside, but God wants our hearts too. He wants our actions to come from our love for Him, not our desire to look good. I have a hard time with that, so that's probably why I like this song so much :)
Haha so you are probably wondering why I called this post "thoughts from the mirror" :) Well whenever God puts a Scripture, song lyrics, or just a thought on my heart, I take a whiteboard marker and write it on my mirror. So "thoughts from the mirror" is where I'll share those things with you all :)
In the BBC TV show Robin Hood, (one of the best shows ever, by the way :) they often use the phrase "We are Robin Hood!" It came from an episode where Robin had almost died and one of the members of his gang asked what they would've done if he had died. Robin replies that they would've continued to help the poor because Robin Hood isn't just a person, it's an idea, a cause they all fight for. He said Robin Hood is the spirit of England and England's only hope.
So I was thinking about that phrase the other day, and God gave me the phrase "We are Jesus Christ!" You see, Jesus did die - of course He rose from the dead and is now in Heaven, but he's not physically here on earth to continue to love people and advance the kingdom of God. So it's our job to continue the work Jesus started while He was on earth. The people we come in contact with everyday won't meet Jesus, but they'll meet us, and if we believe that "We are Jesus Christ" we will live in a way that shows them Jesus. We are Jesus's representatives - the ones who have the Spirit of God in us, so we have to live like it.
Haha hopefully that makes as much sense in writing as it did in my head :)
So I went to a beautiful part of Texas with the four girls who would do photo shoots with me all day long this weekend....and my camera was sitting on my dresser at home.....yeah - it stinks....
Basically, here's what we did:
Ate (like all day long :)
Swam
Tubed and skied on the lake
Played games
Had our own church service
Enjoyed some good time with our family
Too bad we had to come home early from it so that my brother and I could "labor" through 6 1/2 hours of physics and math classes :(
