Loved

Yo, so, this week has been one of those weeks.

I don't really have that much to do, and so that means I am doing next to nothing and also falling to my struggles and just overall not doing too well, simply because I have free time, which means I waste time, stay up late, sleep in, get bored? There's gotta be a real way to deal with this. I mean, just having free time shouldn't lead to temptation and sin. I need to figure out how to live life when I have free time.

In my hours of wasted time I ended up going from email to youtube subscriptions to vsauce again and onto a DONG (Do Online Now Guys) video and my attention was caught by this game:


http://armorgames.com/play/6086/loved

It's really simple, but powerful. You play the game how you want to play. Multiple times there will be a prompt to do something and you can choose to do it, or not to, and that changes the course of the game and ultimately the ending, but one thing doesn't change. I don't want to spoil it, so go play it now before reading on. It will take probably 10 minutes max. It took me 30 to play twice including one really long part.

I'm really blessed though. Like today was a lab exam for my plant physiology and biochemistry class. I really didn't study much yesterday and I slept in and was going to school at 9 to cram until my lab. Got to school at 9:30, but then a friend attacked me and we talked until my class at 10. Instead of paying attention in class I flipped through the 700 pages of my textbook and found out that MT planned for us to go sharing during discing time, so I asked if he could keep me accountable to study for an hour after my class then we could go sharing for an hour.

So really I had scanned my textbook, but that was about all the review I had since the review session last week. My friend also needed to borrow my laptop for his lab exam at the same time as mine, so I had no laptop to study with. I ended up reading my lab manual for an hour, skipping the last part cause I was bored of it.

We talked for a bit and then went off. We ran into this guy NP. He was pretty cool. Wearing a St. Louis Gretzky jersey and a Blue Jays cap. We got into a good conversation about God's grace and the sinlessness of Christ. Got to walk through our need for a saviour and share a bit about how anger in itself isn't a sin. He was really interested in the conversation, like he had maybe 2 texts a minute for the 25 minutes we talked and he never answered one of them. xP

Then I had the lab exam. Was slightly late, but quite confident in my answers. Got to answer about photosynthesis, the topic of our microbio lab, so it was really easy. I ended up being nearly the first person done.

But ya, I really liked that game. Have you played it yet? No? Go play it. I hate spoilers.......

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Ok. Done now? Good. The ending is so good! Whether you followed His prompts or not, He still offers you a chance to come close to Him and experience His love. Even after walking away your entire life, He still gives you that chance. You can continue to walk away, but then you'll never experience Him. Taste and see that He is good, you won't want to walk away anymore. There may be difficult parts, like that part where He asked you to take the road through the spikes, but He is with you and will help you through it.

"I have loved you with an everlasting love"

That's what the Bible says about God's love for the world. So much that even though we went against Him, He was willing to forgive us justly by taking our punishment upon Himself, bearing it all on the cross.

So, ya. That game. So much a reflection of God's love.

Anyways, Ttyl.

D.Fa
 
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