I know what you're thinking.
Or, at least what my momma is thinking.
"Mary, you've been whining about the MCAT. Why have you been reading books? Why are you blogging?"
Well, first of all, I did a practice test today and needed to de-mcat for a bit. (yes, I'm defending all of my choices to the internets. i have some issues.)
Second, I am not about to get any effective studying done at 10:36 pm. (defending myself again. i promise, I'll work on that.)
So, to the point of this post.
Kisses From Katie.
A book that rocked my happy little world this afternoon. A book that I've only read 60 pages of and cried for about 59.5 of them.
It was like she took my emotions from Honduras and wrote a book about them. And then she took what I dreamed for my life and kept writing.
There's so much that I want to do. So much I want to be a part of.
And so much that I'm scared of. I'm way too comfortable.
WAY. TOO. COMFORTABLE.
And I want to get out of the comfort zone, but I truly feel my calling is to the medical field. And that requires medical school. So I'm focusing on that.
But I need to focus on what I can do here. and do now. because God's kingdom is eternal. It always has been and it always will be. So friends, that means we have to be doing things now. We can't put it off. God didn't put off sending his son for our salvation. So why in the world should we put God on hold until we accomplish the things that we want and we think we need. We shouldn't.
Also, the biggest lesson I learned in Honduras was repeated over. and over. and over. and over again in this book.
I, myself, cannot change the world. But that's not what God requires of me. He requires that I love his children. That I do good to everyone. That I care for the orphans and widows. So that is what I'm going to do. Here. and now. and in the future.
Please, friends, hold me accountable to this. Join with me in this. Let's encourage each other to love. To not look down on people because their different, or dirty, but to embrace them and love them. The way Jesus loved us. The way Jesus loves us. We came to Him broken and filthy and he accepts us, loves us and makes us whole.
I'm sure I'll have more thoughts on this once I actually finish the book, but until then, let's be praying for each other.
Whoever you are, reading this, I'm praying for you. That God would give you the strength to love and care for even the "least of these."
xoxo
Want to get out of your comfort zone. Get to know God, He is so Holy it is uncomfortable. You say get to know God? I thought I already did. Oh, yes, and we know much about Him, but how much time do we spend with Him alone in prayer and in worship? How much time do we spend with Him pouring over His word? We know to much about Him and not enough of Him. We must be in the presence of a Holy God to become holy. And the process of sanctification is very uncomfortable. Walter Marshall (from the Behold your God study I have been doing) said: "It is a true saying, that believers should not act for life, but from life. They must act as those that are not procuring life by their works, but as such who have already received and derived life from Christ, and act from the power and virtue received from Him." Be careful not to do this loving because you think that you should, you will be just as unfulfilled as if you had stayed idle. We don't have the power to love that way on our own. We must get with Jesus we must pour ourselves into His presence His worship, acting out His teaching by the power of His Spirit, by faith, yes, but out of a sense of yearning to see Him not our of a sense of wanting to have meaning and purpose in our doing. We can do nothing, apart from Him. Seek to be in Him and you will find your self doing the things He did by the power of the Spirit in Him.
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