This I Know

Dear Future Husband, Hi, my name is Addi. I would hope you already know that. I sure hope you exist. I have so many questions. Do you like camp? Do you like Disney? Do you like Star Wars? Is the dress black and blue, or yellow and gold? What kind of music do you like? Are you an Auburn fan? Most importantly, do you love God? I hope the question to the last one is yes.  I’m pretty lame. Some days I’ll call myself awesome, it depends on the mood. I’m 15 years old now. I don’t really like driving, so I hope you do. I like to cook, so be prepared to gain weight or take up running or something. I basically live at church camp in the summer. I can be pretty sarcastic sometimes, I hope you can get my sense of humor. I pray for you everyday, I hope you do the same. I hope I can be your best friend one day. I hope we have evening Bible studies together. I hope a lot of things. Sincerely, Your Crazy Future Wife :)

This week I had the privilege to get to go to the Freed Hardeman lectureships for a couple of days. I heard many good lectures, but one of the best was one about habitual sin. It got me to thinking about TRUE repentance. I have been really enjoying some of C.S. Lewis quotes lately. Here is one to get us thinking. “As long as he doesn't convert it into action, it does not matter how much a man thinks about his repentance.” I think sometimes we can get the dangerous mindset that repentance is our safety net and will be there if we just say a prayer. It’s not there for us to abuse. We have to have a willing heart to serve God. 1st Chronicles 28:9 says ““As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve Him with a whole heart and a willing mind, for the Lord searches every heart and understands the intention of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.” ‭God knows our intent. We can be the “perfect...

“I hope we go out for mexican food after worship.” “Aw, that baby is soooo cute!!” “The preacher preaches mighty long this morning..” I know all of these things have passed through my mind during worship. What about yours? 1st Corinthians 11:28 says “Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup.” The church in Corinth had many, many problems. One of them being that they judged one another more than they judged themselves. Paul encouraged them to change their ways. “Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you.” Proverbs‬ ‭4:25‬ I know my main goal in life is to get to Heaven. (Rev 2:10) How can we do that if we’re focused on worldly things? If you were training for the olympics, you wouldn’t go out and mess up all your training by eating cake or pizza, would you? Of course not. Surrounding ourselves with worldly distractions is doing just that to us. There’s many many more types of distractions in our walks as C...