Blah Day!

Got a rockin' headache this morning and it's been there since my eyes opened. Took medicine but didn't help. I am on my last week of class for the semester and I got a booger load of stuff to do that I have yet to start on cause I can't focus. Wouldn't be so bad if this was four weeks earlier, but I have till Sunday night to get this stuff done. I think about my inability to NOT procrastinate and I wonder how it reflects on my relationship with Christ. Talk about hurting your own feelings! Often I put off the things that Christ would have me to do and that ain't right. I put off my Bible study an quiet time till I have the time, and that often results in not doing it at all on several days. I am a procrastinator with ADHD how in the world do I really think that I am going to remember to do my Bible study and not wait till the last minute. What if Jesus had put his love off till the last minute for me. Or had said "I'll get around to David eventually" and never does. If that is such a shot to my gut then why not change it. It is hard for someone like me to CHANGE. I usually put that off too! :) Christ has blessed my life in so many ways and yet I fail constantly to give him what he is due. I expect to get paid on time and fairly, so why should I not pay to Christ (DAILY) that which he is due. Just something to chew on this morning as I put off doing my school work yet again! I love Jesus hope you do to, if you don't I need to talk to you! Early morning rhyming. Keep it real for Jesus...Take a look at Romans 7:7-25, maybe there is something to learn from Paul about struggling!

Risk It All!!!

Often I have a hard time trying to really live out my faith in Christ. I think that all Christians could empathize with me here. I have read the book Crazy Love by Francis Chan and my life didn't really change. Now I am going through the book again with my Bible study group. I am reading things that challenge me to live differently. Not according to Francis Chan, but according to what the word of God says. My thought today is that we as believers are called to risk it all. What am I so afraid of that I hinder myself from living the way God wants me to? Is it comfort, pride, fear, uncertainty or lack of control? It could be and probably is a mixture of all those things and some others. As a youth pastor I am held to a higher standard by people who know what I do. I hold myself to a higher standard because of the calling on my life by God. But yet I still fail to embrace the risk of letting everyone know that I am a Christian. I don't care if they know what I do. All I want them to know is who I do, what I do for! It doesn't matter who approves or disapproves, the reality is that in the end only the truth matters and only God's opinion matters. If you do not find favor with him then you've lost it all. I could try all my life to appease one particular person, and I might achieve that. That is not what will get me into heaven though. Only one person controls that....GOD! I have a responsibility though to accept Christ as my Savior, to live for Him and acknowledge Him before all mankind. If I fail I have no one to blame but myself. My prayer is that I serve God with a reckless abandonment...that nothing will hold me back or quench my fire! I pray that God moves over you in the same way as well. To God be the glory, great things he has done! I am reminded of a quote by William Carey that sums all of this up, "Expect great things from God, ATTEMPT great things for God!"

Tomorrow I am going to try to start putting up my thoughts from my daily devotions...hope you all enjoy!

So apparently since my last post i forgot i had a blog until today when i read someone else's and thought hey i got one of those...i questioned if i even remembered the password...but I DID!!!!

6 days later!

So i remembered starting this blog last week and how i thought that i was going to keep it up weekly...6 days later I remembered to do it. Nice, huh?! Absolutely! SO this week has ben a trying one. The pastor is heading out of town on friday and leaving me in charge so I get to preach on Sunday (both services). On top of that we have a funeral to do so I have to plan for that. Then there is the homework... one 5 page book critique on a book that had 220(+) pages that I did not read, and a couple exams and several discussion board posts. Needless to say it is Wednesday and i am already fried for the week. I have one more week of classes after this then i get a break for about a week. If you have any words of encouragement they and your prayers are highly coveted at this very trying time. So hopefully I can give you an update on how thigns go before too long and maybe just maybe it won't be 6 days till the next post. Jesus loves you and so do I. In CHRIST <>< David

First Day on the Blog

Much like the first day of work and the trials of learning everything, today is my first blog. I am quite new to this concept and hope that I can maintain some consistency in doing this. I hope also to not look like a complete moron, which is extremely hard for me to do. The hope for this blog is to let people see inside the life of and ADHD Youth Pastor (myself). I hope that it can be a source of humor and comfort but most of a place where God's love can be radiated via the world wide web. That is about all I have for now...let the blogging fun BEGIN!!!