I'm getting choked up just thinking about it. Life is just overwhelmingly glorious today.
Mondays are exciting days for me this semester. The weekend is over, we're getting back into the groove of the week and my first class isn't until 10:35. We aren't expected to be there until 10:45 because it's ice skating and the instructor is super chill. Because it's ice skating. I love it.
Because of this I take my Monday mornings as good extended time with the Lord. Last Monday I went in the backyard to read and I left music playing on my computer on the dining table. I went to class and came home an hour later to find my computer missing. After some investigating I realized it was stolen right out of my house.
By no means was this expected or good. It was violating, a shock, and a stark exposure to the twisted nature of the world. Nevertheless, from the moment I realized until now, it's okay. Yes, I lost a lot of information and important things I had on a very expensive device, but it's okay. God gave me the desire that morning to be challenged and I asked him for a challenge. I didn't expect it to come that same morning but that's the way he works. Since losing my computer I have started being a joyful giver because I realized even computers are here one moment and gone another. Things don't matter in the end.
I got a glimpse of God's nature that morning when I was on the phone with my sister and realized my computer was no longer in my house. I froze, smiled, and asked her about her life. That's only by God's power and his movement in my life.
My encouragement to you is to know God. Pray, take time to get to know him daily. And second: give things away. I really can't express how rewarding giving is.
Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Matthew 6:19-22
Mondays are exciting days for me this semester. The weekend is over, we're getting back into the groove of the week and my first class isn't until 10:35. We aren't expected to be there until 10:45 because it's ice skating and the instructor is super chill. Because it's ice skating. I love it.
Because of this I take my Monday mornings as good extended time with the Lord. Last Monday I went in the backyard to read and I left music playing on my computer on the dining table. I went to class and came home an hour later to find my computer missing. After some investigating I realized it was stolen right out of my house.
By no means was this expected or good. It was violating, a shock, and a stark exposure to the twisted nature of the world. Nevertheless, from the moment I realized until now, it's okay. Yes, I lost a lot of information and important things I had on a very expensive device, but it's okay. God gave me the desire that morning to be challenged and I asked him for a challenge. I didn't expect it to come that same morning but that's the way he works. Since losing my computer I have started being a joyful giver because I realized even computers are here one moment and gone another. Things don't matter in the end.
I got a glimpse of God's nature that morning when I was on the phone with my sister and realized my computer was no longer in my house. I froze, smiled, and asked her about her life. That's only by God's power and his movement in my life.
My encouragement to you is to know God. Pray, take time to get to know him daily. And second: give things away. I really can't express how rewarding giving is.
Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Matthew 6:19-22
