Trust

This is also something a wrote a while ago not sure when but I thought I would share it.

Trust in the LORD and do good;
Dwell in the land and cultivate faithfulness.
Delight yourself in the LORD;
And He will give you the desires of your heart.
Commit your way to the LORD,
Trust also in Him, and He will do it.
He will bring forth your righteousness as the light
And your judgment as the noonday.
Rest in the LORD and wait patiently for Him;
Do not fret because of him who prospers in his way,
Because of the man who carries out wicked schemes.
Psalms 37:3-7 NASB

Lord help me to trust in You
God show me how to find delight in You
Lord I want to wholly commit my life to You
Lord help me to trust in You

Lord help me to trust in You
Show me how to be still for You God
I desire to wait patiently for You
Lord help me to trust in You

Lord I know you'll help me to trust You
I know you'll show me how to find delight in You
I know you'll show me how to be still before You
Lord I know you'll help me to trust in You.

Poetry from the Past

I wrote this poem one day while I was working at subway I think. I was looking through some of the things I wrote a while ago and it made me sad because I recently I don't feel like I have been as close to God as I was at the time I wrote this. Who knows maybe He impressed me to write down my feelings at that time so that it would compel me to seek him more now. Well I hope this gives you a blessing to it's simple but good.

Jesus is my everything

Without Him I wouldn't be anything

His sacrifice is the best gift anyone could ever give

And He offers it to every child of His

He loves us all even though we sin

And He's coming down here to take us back with Him

All we have to do is believe in Jesus

Because no matter what happens He'll never leave us

Lord take my life

This is a song I wrote while I was trying to figure out what to do at the end of my freshman year here at Union. I was struggling in my classes and not sure if I should still do theology but at the same time I had a couple offers to be a taskforce assistant chaplain at an academy.

Lord I don’t know what you’re telling me

But I know you’re telling me something

Oh Lord I don’t know what you want to do with me

But I know you want to do something

Lord take my life

Take me and teach me

Lord show me your will

And help me to follow it right

It doesn’t matter what you’re telling me

Or what it is you want me to do

Because you are my God and my Savior

I’d do anything for You

So Lord take my life

Take me and teach me

Lord show me your will

And help me to follow it right

I want to spread Your love to all people

And show them Your grace

So help me Lord to live each day

In a way that glorifies You

So Lord take my life

Take me and teach me

Lord show me your will

And help me to follow it right

Lord take my life

Take me and teach me

Lord show me your will

And help me to follow it right

Leviticus and Numbers

Leviticus and Numbers are two books that as a whole I sometimes wonder why they are in the Bible. There are things in both of them that I know are important. Devotionally I have always wonder what value there is in them.

Then I realized something. First it shows me that there are somethings God is very particular about and has told us how He wants them done. Secondly and more of the point that I have come to understand is that it's about spending time with Him.

Still not sure where I'm coming from? We all have friends in our lives that get really excited about things that we have absolutely no interest in, and sometimes even dislike. Despite are feelings toward hearing about these things or even sometimes doing them we do it anyway because we care about them and we care about those things because they do.

It's not a perfect parallel but for now I am satisfied in knowing that it's good for me to read those "boring" parts of the Bible, because they were important enough that God made sure they were put in there so I'm going to pay attention to them. I may not get a life lesson for the day but I'm still spending time with Him and that's what's important!

To Save a Life

This movie is awesome. One of the reasons I really like it is because it is so real. They don't try and smooth things over and they don't play them up either. They show life how it is and the message really come through! Check it out you won't regret it!

DC trip dissed by Big Rich

Typically I avoid calling attention to the times others made me look bad but I have to admit this is pretty funny!

Derek's Water

I once knew a boy who didn’t like water. Well he liked to play in water and play with water, but he didn’t like to drink it. This boy’s name was Derek. Now Derek like most boys loved to have fun so when his parents asked him if he wanted to go to summer camp he couldn’t resist. Derek’s brother had been before. Derek’s brother had told him about riding horses, shooting arrows, driving go-carts, tubing and so many more fun things he couldn’t even remember them all. There was no way Derek was going to miss out on camp.

When he arrived on Sunday after a drive that seemed to take forever he could not wait to make friends and do all those fun things his brother talked about. First though he had to follow his mom while she filled out boring adult papers. Once she was done with that though Derek took his stuff up to his cabin then he went to the pool to swim.

Derek loves to swim. If Derek could only choose one thing to do it would probably be swimming. So he had no problem with this camp so far, in fact he thought this camp was pretty sweet. Well after swimming they got to eat pizza, which was awesome, and then they played some dodge ball. Now dodge ball is another story but will save that for another time.

To conclude Derek’s first evening at camp they had Campfire. Now Derek was quite confused by the term Campfire because you see there was no fire at Campfire. Soon after it began though he had so much fun he completely forgot about the lack of fire, and if you were to ask him now he would think it absurd that you would assume there be a fire at Campfire.

The next day Derek woke up quite early and it seemed like he would never get to do activities, but after breakfast and morning worship they began. Wow, to Derek it seemed like all his dreams came true. He got to do Arch-go, Jet-ski, Nature, Tubing, and Swimming. It was like he dreamed the perfect day and it became true.

However there was one problem. Derek loves to play in water but, he doesn’t like to drink it. At dinner that evening he didn’t feel like drinking any water and he wasn’t going to. Then his counselor told him of the cabin rule; “You must drink two glasses of water before eating or drinking anything else.” This was a problem for Derek. See Derek was used to getting things his way. He did what he wanted to and he didn’t do what he didn’t want to do.

This began a battle of wills Derek’s decision to not drink his water and his counselor’s to make sure he did. Derek sat through the whole meal without touching a thing; he just sat there with his head on the table. Then he sat there while his cabin played at recreation. This was tough for Derek but he felt that soon his counselor would break. Only he did not realize that his counselor had a tag team partner. Just as recreation ended and it was about time to go to Campfire Derek’s counselor did the unexpected. He called in the Assistant Director. Derek knew that Campfire was hard to resist and that his counselor couldn’t last much longer. What he hadn’t thought of was this, a replacement fresh off the bench. Derek wasn’t sure he could take this new player, but he would do his best.

It had now been three hours since supper started and Derek could feel himself fading fast. The Assistant Director was trying to get Derek to talk about other things, things Derek was interested in. The Assistant Director was attempting to make Derek his friend, Derek knew this wasn’t good. Before he knew it he found himself playing “Eenie, Meanie, Miney, Mow” to decide which glass of water to drink first. He knew he was giving in but what else could he do? Then as he was deciding which glass to drink the Assistant Director started narrating what he was doing in a funny voice. Derek knew he was going down fast now.

He started drinking the first glass sip by sip trying to make it take as long as possible. When he was about halfway done with the first glass and he knew he didn’t have much resisting left in him. The worst possible thing happened, the Camp Director appeared and Derek knew it was over. The Director came and began to talk to Derek along with the Assistant Director. Derek gave in. They were so fun and nice he just couldn’t take it anymore. He gulped down the rest of the first glass and the second. Then he was so defeated he even agreed to drink his water for the rest of the week.

Derek had given in. He didn’t feel too bad though, because man these guys were good. Plus even though they won he still got to do all the fun activities. He had a feeling this week was going to be even more fun than he anticipated. He resolved to continue to be good and see just how much fun he could have.

Just like Derek, sometimes we decide we are not going to drink our water. Not because we can’t or because it’s not good for us; no we decide not to drink it just because we don’t want to. We want to do what we want, when we want. Sometimes we choose not to do something we were going to do just because someone told us to do it. God has placed people in our lives to help remind us of who he has created us to be and who we should be. Refusing to do something just because someone wants us to do it isn’t a good reason. We should be who God wants us to be and do what God wants us to do, because it’s the right thing to do. If we choose to follow God’s will then we will see just how fun it can be and we will want to keep doing it!