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Monday, June 16, 2008

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    Hello Xanga world,

    I have pretty much exempted myself from the xanga world and converted to facebook and blogspot (among my numerous other blogs that I rarely use).  From here on out, I will be posting on my blogspot rather than my xanga, so if you would care to continue reading my blogsies :) you can visit me at http://fiveinarow.blogspot.com .  I enjoy using pictures now, something that was very near impossible for me on xanga, so I am on cloud nine with my blogspot and I am quite sure that you will enjoy the picture blogs that fill in for my moments of writeres block.  I will make an occasional visit to xanga every so often, just because I know I will miss it, but I dearly hope to hear from you all on blogspot!

Saturday, January 19, 2008

  • Rambling Thoughts...

    It's amazing how you're life can change so drastically in the short period of a few months, I wish I could fully understand how that works.  Where does the time go these days? I didn't realize how very short my life is until I reached the ripe old age of thirteen, it was then that time started to fly like ducks to the south during winter.  I have wasted so much time on frivolous ventures rather than redeeming the time for my Jesus, I didn't start to fully grasp that until the Lord really began to convict me on it the past couple years (in dramatic ways, might I add *cough*)... what a crazy thought that I could stand before His throne at any time and have to give an account of what I've done with my life, it really puts things into an eternal perspective.  I know that alot of people talk about this, but it's a topic that needs to be addressed, I don't think we realize how very important it is... time is such a gift, but it's a fading gift, one that cannot be held onto no matter how tightly you try to hold it.  What a gift it is too...

    I didn't realize the depth of an "I love you" until the other night... I guess I was just in a rather analytical and contemplative mood or something.  I mean, what is really behind the act of saying "I love you"? Is it a declaration of 1 Corinthians 13?  Odd to think on I guess, but I just couldn't help but be amazed at the whole concept of love.  I guess it's yet another gift... not quite so fleeting as time, but then again... what do we do with it?  Is it well used, well distributed?  In accordence with the love that Christ showed? It's such a deep subject...

    "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing. Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;  bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love."

Saturday, January 12, 2008

Thursday, December 27, 2007

  • I've begun to read through the gospels again with the inspiration that I don't have such an accurate view of my Jesus... that doesn't exactly sound the way I wanted it to, let me try to explain.  After reading a few chapters of "The Road to Reality" by K.P. Yohannon (I think that's how you spell his name) I was struck with a deep revelation; is the Jesus I worship the same Jesus of the bible or is He just a mr. potato head Jesus of my own creation?  Is the Jesus I worship the Son of God, the firstborn of all creation that holds everything in His hand?  Is He the Jesus that has compassion on the multitudes, healing them and teaching them in the ways of God?  Is He the same Jesus that controls the wind and waves and with a word can calm them?  Is He the Jesus that is the servant of all and yet Lord of all, washing his disciples feet and yet controlling the elements?  Is He one and the same with the Jesus that came out of love for His creation and humbly died so that we could live?  Is He the same Jesus that conquered death and rose from human death?  Is He the same Jesus as the Jesus of the Bible, the one that is ruling my life?
    I had to conclude that no, it was not the same Jesus.  I've put Jesus in a box and sickly twisted Him to become what I want Him to be -- a Jesus that fills my selfish desires.  It was so disheartening to realize this and to see how badly I've twisted scripture to meet my needs and my wants and without even realizing it! 
    So I committed to read through the gospels again, praying that the Lord would reveal to me the Jesus I should be worshiping... I can't tell you how amazing it is, there are so many things that the Lord is showing me that I never even came close to noticing before.  My God is so good to me and I don't give a hoot to that fact half the time. 
    I can't help but wonder how many Christians are living like I have, missing out on the joy and complete, amazing blessing of loving and following the Jesus of the Bible rather than one that is so dumbed down that He's just a high-up name.  Does anybody realize the danger we're in of forsaking our first Love? 
    Remember the rich young ruler in the Bible that came to Jesus?  He wanted to know how to have eternal life and Jesus told him to sell all He had and to come and follow Him, the young ruler walked away sorrowful because he couldn't let go of what he had.  Jesus concludes that circumstance by stating how difficult it is for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven and that it would be easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle -- basically He said it was impossible for a rich person to go to heaven.  Francis Chan makes an amazing point out of this for us: we are that rich young ruler, we are the rich ones that hold onto everything, it is impossible for US to enter the Kingdom of Heaven in and of ourselves.  No one gets that do they?  We're so busy fulfilling our desires and we are so consumed with that kind of lifestyle that we fashion everything to work around it -- even our religion.  We pick and choose the qualities that we want Jesus to have and hold these ideas so tightly that we interpret everything in this light, we cling so tightly to what we know because, well, we just know it all don't we?  Ahh, it's so sad the wreck that the body of Christ can be in, and it's even more sad that we're the ones who do it.
    May we truly seek to know Jesus... the Jesus of the Bible, the one and only.
    "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved. In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence, having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself, that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth—in Him. In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will, that we who first trusted in Christ should be to the praise of His glory. In Him you also trusted , after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory."
    ~ Ephesians  1:3-14

Saturday, December 22, 2007

  • I was in my room the other day minding my own when my younger brother Jordan walked in, normally this is nothing abnornal since all of my siblings pretty nearly share my room with me anyways.  But back to what I was saying, Jordan came in my room and I was shocked into hystarical laughter with what he came to show me. "Look Carissa, see the apron mom gave me!" My mom is an avid apron collector and has passed this trait on to her younger children (it somehow skipped me) so I found this nothing out of the ordinary and turned to see which apron he had.  Lo and behold, to what did my wandering eyes behold!  He had a plain white apron with the words "country cookin' makes ya good lookin'" neatly centered on the front...

    ...I couldn't help but laugh.

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  • "For do I now persuade men, or God? Or, do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men I would not be a bondservant of Christ." Galations 1:10 "So likewise you, when you have done all those things which you are commanded, say, 'we are unprofitable servants. We have done what was our duty to do." Luke 17:10

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