(Not in any order)
1. Spending my days with Rachel Anne Wharton
2. Using board bucks to get coffee at Port City Java
3. Working out in the gym
4. Eating Taco Bell in Tally
5. Studying with Rachel in the library
6. Taking every class with Rachel
7. Being in the best bible study monday nights
8. Campus Crusade thursday nights
9. Living in walking distance from all my friends
10. Reading my bible whenever I am sitting around
11. Being crazy at night with Rachel in the dorm
12. Having Kerri and Evan to hang out with and knowing they are always there for me
13. A Beautiful campus
14. Playing pranks with Rachel
15. Being in the amazing city of Raleigh, NC
16. Spending fun nights downtown
17. Going to Summit Church sunday mornings
18. Walking to class and seeing people I know
19. NC State football/tailgates
20. Spending sunny warm days outisde
21. Having Tennessee people come visit me (Ben)
22. Driving to the beach
23. Student Venture!!!
24. Parties with Crusade
25. Getting lost in the hill (library)
26. Late night cook out runs
27. Going out to dinner with friends
28. Having upperclass men cook for me
29. Doing laundry at home
30. Being blessed by AMAZING friends
Monday, January 11, 2010
Saturday, January 9, 2010
New Verse About Love
I get so excited when I find new verses in the bible. I pray that God will show me something new or speak to me in a new way when I am reading.
I didn't know what to read tonight so God really laid 2 Timothy on my heart and I ended up reading 2 Timothy 4.
The apostle Paul, as most of you know, was persecuted and went through more trials and struggles than we will ever have to deal with in our lives. In the last chapter he says that many of the men with him deserted him or left to go to different places because they loved the "present world". And then in verse 16 Paul says, "At my first defense, no one came to my assistance, but everyone deserted me. May it not be counted against them. But the Lord stood with me and strengthened me...".
I think that is SO encouraging and convicting because, even though those men left Paul alone even while he went/had gone through so much persecution and so many struggles that could make Paul want to give up too, he says he does not want anything to be counted against them! Think of how much love that had to take for Paul to truly say that and think that in his heart. I would have been so bitter, angry and grouchy towards those men and about my life. But Paul knows that the Lord will always stand by him and he still wants to love those men anyways because that's Christ's love for us, even when we abandon Christ.
It opened my eyes to more love and a different angle on it from Paul and his heart for Jesus.
I didn't know what to read tonight so God really laid 2 Timothy on my heart and I ended up reading 2 Timothy 4.
The apostle Paul, as most of you know, was persecuted and went through more trials and struggles than we will ever have to deal with in our lives. In the last chapter he says that many of the men with him deserted him or left to go to different places because they loved the "present world". And then in verse 16 Paul says, "At my first defense, no one came to my assistance, but everyone deserted me. May it not be counted against them. But the Lord stood with me and strengthened me...".
I think that is SO encouraging and convicting because, even though those men left Paul alone even while he went/had gone through so much persecution and so many struggles that could make Paul want to give up too, he says he does not want anything to be counted against them! Think of how much love that had to take for Paul to truly say that and think that in his heart. I would have been so bitter, angry and grouchy towards those men and about my life. But Paul knows that the Lord will always stand by him and he still wants to love those men anyways because that's Christ's love for us, even when we abandon Christ.
It opened my eyes to more love and a different angle on it from Paul and his heart for Jesus.
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