When I lead worship, I choose songs that preach to me.
Have I been choosing songs of legalism? Preaching our need to recommit to God? Rather than that of grace fully undeserved and magnificently amazing?
Lord, I need the gospel. I need forgiveness for thinking I could ever do anything to earn salvation. I need forgiveness if my words or actions have conveyed a similar message to anyone. I need your Spirit to speak to my heart a true repentance, a knowledge of your grace, and a humbleness to know it is more than I could comprehend.
D.Fa
31.3.14
30.3.14
Thoughts
This semester our DG has been memorizing 1Cor13. Near the end 'now we see in a mirror dimly, then face to face. For now we know in part, but then I shall know fully even as I am fully known.'
These words are very profound. There's no way we can know God fully now, but He knows us fully now. Fully and intimately, He knows us and still would choose to show His love for us through the cross, once and for all paying the price that animals never could.
Even though I am going through some stuff now, God is still loving; patiently and kindly, not insisting but bearing all things. Love never ends. This present suffering is not worth comparing to the future glory.
Also, those who have been adopted are sealed with the Holy Spirit, as a guarentee of things to come. If I have experienced His work in me (which I definitely have) then I know He loves me.
Ttyl.
D.Fa
5.3.14
Twitch
So, I don't know how nerdy you are. If you are even a tad nerdy, like in a video game kinda way, and have some idea of what is happening on the internets or a little bit into pokémon, you probably know that there's this thing called 'twitch' and thousands of people around the world are playing the same game of pokémon!
They successfully beat pokémon red version together and are now trying pokémon crystal. I played for a little bit yesterday, but I was a little annoyed. I was asking 'how do we ever get things done??' and if I didn't explain this it'd be confusing. So, there is one game and /everyone/ i controlling it. There are two modes 'anarchy' and 'democracy'. In 'anarchy' literally every input is completed, leading to . . . anarchy. lol. This is mostly because there are people trying to be counter-productive. In democracy mode every 15-45 seconds the game will take a poll for what the next move(s) should be. However, if it is a tie the poll starts over. So, there can often be many ties and nothing happening, especially since it is hard with the lag to input the same multi-move command. So either way, if there are a number of people controlling it, with varying opinions, the results are less than optimal.
I was thinking about this briefly:
Life is like "TwitchPlaysPokemon".
I mean that in that, there is a reason, a purpose, or at the very least goals for your life. However, it gets difficult to accomplish these things when there are so many people trying to have input into what you do. In addition to what you think you should do are friends and family. With just them you may be better off. However, there are also the trolls and those who want to hurt you, make you fail, disorient you.
This becomes even more severe when you realize the multitude of people and the messages in the world that are trying to persuade you this way or that. How could you ever follow a single path when what is cool is constantly changing, when the culture tells you to pursue one thing when your family, friends, and God tell you otherwise?
I have also thought extensively about what 'Frozen' is really saying, but that is for later.
Ttyl.
D.Fa
They successfully beat pokémon red version together and are now trying pokémon crystal. I played for a little bit yesterday, but I was a little annoyed. I was asking 'how do we ever get things done??' and if I didn't explain this it'd be confusing. So, there is one game and /everyone/ i controlling it. There are two modes 'anarchy' and 'democracy'. In 'anarchy' literally every input is completed, leading to . . . anarchy. lol. This is mostly because there are people trying to be counter-productive. In democracy mode every 15-45 seconds the game will take a poll for what the next move(s) should be. However, if it is a tie the poll starts over. So, there can often be many ties and nothing happening, especially since it is hard with the lag to input the same multi-move command. So either way, if there are a number of people controlling it, with varying opinions, the results are less than optimal.
I was thinking about this briefly:
Life is like "TwitchPlaysPokemon".
I mean that in that, there is a reason, a purpose, or at the very least goals for your life. However, it gets difficult to accomplish these things when there are so many people trying to have input into what you do. In addition to what you think you should do are friends and family. With just them you may be better off. However, there are also the trolls and those who want to hurt you, make you fail, disorient you.
This becomes even more severe when you realize the multitude of people and the messages in the world that are trying to persuade you this way or that. How could you ever follow a single path when what is cool is constantly changing, when the culture tells you to pursue one thing when your family, friends, and God tell you otherwise?
I have also thought extensively about what 'Frozen' is really saying, but that is for later.
Ttyl.
D.Fa
1.3.14
Serious Thoughts
Yo.
(pause and think about what happened yesterday that I wanted to blog about)
!!!
YO!
So yesterday was DG day and everything, which was good. We've been memorizing 1Cor13, and it's been really good, like so good I'm like 7 verses ahead just because. lol. (much better than a verse behind like last semester. . . lol.) And after was time with MT which is always good. haha
After I ended up in the Architecture studio as normal, but then I got a text from MM asking what I was doing. Apparently AG's landlady was meeting up with them and JF, so I should go too. lol So I went. haha. Really excited about the possibility of living there next year. Really chill landlady, super cool bros, awesome house. But I don't know if I should be there with them, which I reeeeeally want, or back with my parents, which could be good, but may also be difficult in many ways... Hmmmm... But it sounds like it'd be so awesome. Gotta pray more about it.
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One thought I got this week is about responsibility and how seriously I take it. I typically say yes to everything and then don't really take anything seriously until the day before. Everything is stretched and beyond it's limits. But when I think about how great things could be, and then someone challenges me to do it, I'm so pumped and behind it to the point that everything else dies down. But what am I now? Do I have any serious responsibilities already? How about being an ambassador? What about ambassador for the King?? Ambassador for God..?
Why don't I take that more seriously?
Hmmmm.
Ttyl.
D.Fa
(pause and think about what happened yesterday that I wanted to blog about)
!!!
YO!
So yesterday was DG day and everything, which was good. We've been memorizing 1Cor13, and it's been really good, like so good I'm like 7 verses ahead just because. lol. (much better than a verse behind like last semester. . . lol.) And after was time with MT which is always good. haha
After I ended up in the Architecture studio as normal, but then I got a text from MM asking what I was doing. Apparently AG's landlady was meeting up with them and JF, so I should go too. lol So I went. haha. Really excited about the possibility of living there next year. Really chill landlady, super cool bros, awesome house. But I don't know if I should be there with them, which I reeeeeally want, or back with my parents, which could be good, but may also be difficult in many ways... Hmmmm... But it sounds like it'd be so awesome. Gotta pray more about it.
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One thought I got this week is about responsibility and how seriously I take it. I typically say yes to everything and then don't really take anything seriously until the day before. Everything is stretched and beyond it's limits. But when I think about how great things could be, and then someone challenges me to do it, I'm so pumped and behind it to the point that everything else dies down. But what am I now? Do I have any serious responsibilities already? How about being an ambassador? What about ambassador for the King?? Ambassador for God..?
Why don't I take that more seriously?
Hmmmm.
Ttyl.
D.Fa
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