| | Well a good bit of time has passed so here I am again, checking xanga, and I have made progress with respect to the stuff I shared in my last post, so here it goes...
I certainly have grown in my ability to steward what I have. My house is kept very well now, I'm eating healthier too. However, I know I'm still not taking care of my toyota camry, my course work, and my relationships with people correctly yet. My car is always junky, and I never think to take it to get have maintenance done, I know it's because I'm not paying for it, and that's no excuse, but that's that, and I've got to work on taking care of my vehicle more, there's so much more I could've said concerning it, but I'll leave it at that. My engineering course work is just not being taken seriously enough yet, and I noticed that I had too much other stuff going on, so I really stepped in and cut out a lot of it, but I'm going to have to cut out more I've noticed. Getting blessed by my best friend Paul with a free laptop is definitely going to help me stay on top of things better. The main thing I cut out was actually time on the internet. I examined my daily lifestyle and noticed that the internet consumes hours and hours of my time everyday, but the things I spend time checking out are all vain and not beneficial to my walk with Christ, or to my engineering course work, so I don't use the internet at my house at all anymore, and the laptop I have does not have any wireless ability or internet connection either. I only use internet at the engineering school, and the library now.
I've noticed that just being on the internet around people helps me stay accountable, whereas at home alone I get distracted easily and start playing games, chatting, or posting on old forums, etc. etc. and it sucks up a ton of my time. Making this change is equivalent to beating my flesh up, because it really seeks vain and pointless stuff.
Relationships with people is in the process of a huge overhaul. I have two groups of friends; Christian's and non-Christian's, or what I like to call soon-to-be-Christian's. I know that I should be getting discipled while at the same time I'm mature enough having been following Christ for 4 years now to disciple others, and then I'm also to be reaching lost people with the Gospel of Christ. It seems simple, but the problem is that there are SO MANY PEOPLE. Right now I actually have an equal number of Christian friends/acquaintances and non-Christian friends/acquaintances. I'm on a quest to weed through all my friends from each group and see who God wants me to really pour into. So far I've decided to meet and have already met with 1 Christian friend to disciple him every Thursday. I'm planning to meet with another Christian friend to disciple him every Wednesday. As far as someone sharpening me, I have many options and I'm starting to narrow it down. As far as me sitting down with non-Christian friends/acquaintances and sharing the Gospel I am also making plans. I've made a tract to give to the non-Christian friends and I wanted to share it on here and see what you all thought about it:
So, that's where I stand on stewarding what God has given me. As far as my relationship with God goes. I'm learning how to better glorify God in all I do, and obey God, and what submitting to God and resisting the devil looks like on a daily basis. Also this very small book, that I actually can't find right now called 'Victory Through Surrender' helped me understand more about how we're to relate to God. God is setting things straight this season; I understand that I'm to be about 3 main things: Personal time of devotion with God on the daily, Ministering to believers and non-believers, and engineering course work. Anything outside these three things is getting cut out slowly but surely. As I've cut out certain things and focused on ministering and doing school work all while giving devotional time to God i've been noticing things that I didn't notice before:
1. People have no clue what real love is, and because they don't they become very selfish and mean.
2. People are confused and don't know which way to turn or how to cope with past experiences or current situations they find themselves in.
3. I need to read God's Word and Pray more than I have previously.
4. If you work you eat.
5. Without hope we're doomed.
6. We all need to slow down and examine our own motives more often.
7. We need mentors.
8. We shouldn't try to enter into new things when we can't handle what we already have correctly.
9. WE are the one's called to fulfill the great commission and actually go out and disciple brand new Christians (not just our pastors or people we refer to as leaders).
10. I'm more mature in Christ than I was 2 years ago, but I'll never figure everything out because I have sinful nature while on this earth, but I can cope with it with Christ.
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I just looked through a bunch of pictures, here are the ones I liked to the most:
Have a good day in Christ!
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