It's funny, though, how it's called "Crazy," yet Chan even says that it's really not. And he's right, it's not, or shouldn't be. Why is that we consider Christians who actually sell all they have to follow Jesus, or who really, really, love their neighbors as themselves, radical or crazy? Why are we amazed at the people who literally could not make it through a month of bills if it weren't for a miracle from God? If we trust God with our lives like we say we do, why are we so scared to put ourselves in situations where we have to rely on Him? I mean, really, it's nice to put an extra dollar in the plate, but if you don't get a candy bar because of it, so what? Now say you only have so much to live off of for the next week, but then you drop all but a few dollars in the plate, or you go spend it all on food, then give away all you can and only keep what's left for yourself. Do you really think God would watch you do that, and then let you go hungry? Would He let you make a sacrifice, trust in Him to pull you through, and then not provide for you? Then why not go do it! Go give away your last dollar, your only meal, your only free evening. See if He doesn't give you ten dollars, a banquet, or a free vacation! God even challenges you to see what He'll do! In Malachi 3:10, God says "Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the LORD of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need." Yeah. God will literally pour down a blessing for you if you give back to Him what's His in the first place. Besides, you only get to keep it for so long anyway.
You know, I've always noticed how other people will say that they need to work on something, or they need to fix something, or do something. Whether it's pray more, give more, love more, read more, whatever, I hear a lot of I-need-to's and not so many I've-been-improving-on's. In seeing this, I've also tried to make sure I don't fall into the same trap of thinking that admitting your problem solves it. In all honesty, admitting you have a problem in and of itself doesn't do anything for you. Realizing you have one, yeah, but just saying that you need work in an area of your life is, well, just saying something. So, especially lately, I've been thinking really hard about whether I've really been working on things that need working on, or if I've just been talking about it. In some areas, I really haven't been doing much improvement, but honestly, I think I've been making some really good changes. And I want to keep it that way. I want to always be improving, moving forward, running to Christ. The things that are most important always get the priority for changes, and I want Christ to be my number one priority.
Love. It's such a bad word. Love isn't bad at all, but the word love is. It's just so inadequate. There were like four different Greek words that translate to our word love (I don't know exactly how many, but there are several). So in the Bible, whenever it says "love," you have to look at the original language to see whether it's talking about brotherly love, romantic love, God's love, etc. I think we should have different words for love, too. It would make things less confusing. People couldn't just get by with saying "I love you" and meaning something else anymore. And songs might be harder to write...
On a tangent (I started the last paragraph last week, and I just got back to it, so I don't remember exactly what I was thinking at the time), but still related to love, I think it's funny how almost every single (secular) song is about love, and then the few that aren't are about things like running from cops, balloons starting a world war, or Amer'ca. The funny thing is, there are soo many songs, and people are constantly writing new ones! I'm not saying that people are unoriginal; in fact, I'm saying the opposite. Musicians are really creative to be able to write so much about one subject, yet have so many original songs. Yeah, maybe there are lots of songs that sound the same, but you have to admit that there are tons of original songs. And catchy songs.
I had some cake earlier. It was good, but it had nuts on/in it. That annoys me, but I still ate it, cuz it was chocolate cake. I'm gonna get fat.
Ok, I'm gonna write a little motivational list of stuff and events for myself, but you can read it, too.
Upcoming cool stuff:
- Tomorrow is November.
- Tuesday is the special Go! Missions thing for Breakaway at Central Baptist.
- After next week, we're basically done training the fish for the semester.
- There are only 4 more drills, and then we're done marching.
- I'm running in the Warrior Dash in 3 weeks.
- The t.u. game is the 4th drill.
- Junior rights in the bass section at or around the t.u. game.
- Thanksgiving.
- Dead week.
- Christmas break.
- Christmas Gospel Sings.
- Christmas.
- Possible bowl game in New York.
- I know what I want to be for Halloween next year.
Yeah, so that's some cool stuff happening soon. We get mini fridges at the outfit Christmas party, too. I mean, we don't actually get fridges, we get the privilege of having a mini fridge in our rooms next semester. I'm excited, cuz it's annoying not having one.
Ok, third time's the charm, right? I'm gonna try to finish this tonight. So, we had Breakaway tonight, and they had a GO! Missions conference, which is where a ton of mission organizations came and set up booths like a career fair, and you went to them and found out about what they do and stuff. They also had people speak about different regions of the world, and what was going on in them. I went to the Africa one, and that was really cool. But before that, I was going to the different booths, and I came to this one about a program called Camp LIFE. It's a camp for orphans in Zambia!! I don't know, I just got really excited when I was talking to the girl about there about it. She told me a little about what you do and stuff, and said that they really need more guys. It's expensive, though, so I don't know. I really want to go for two weeks, though. So, please pray that God would tell me by Nov 15th, the day that the price goes up even more, whether this is what He wants me to do or not, and that, if it is, He would provide the means for me to go. That's all I have for now. It's late and I need me some mee mees! Goodnight!
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