Life Change

-Excuse the jumping around of this post, think of it as more of a journal entry-

The past few weeks I've been really striving to work on my walk with God. In doing so I've realized how out of touch with him I was/am, and how much I need to change myself, my views, and my expectations for things.

Everything in this world, outside of Jesus, seems to point to some sort of glorifying yourself, establishing your self-worth, coveting what people have, and just sheer acts of pride. So it becomes 2nd nature for us to believe we deserve to be treated some kind of way, or in the "perfect" world be catered to in some fashion. That's why a lot of people live their entire life trying to make as much money as they can so that maybe one day they can take a break and have people work for them in some fashion.

We work towards having things in hopes that it will bring us what we all ultimately want, peace in our mind, body, and spirit. The most amazing thing to me about everyone seeking some sort of peace, is the fact that most people are seeking creations to bring them peace instead of the creator. I'm as guilty as anyone of this and I repent of it constantly. The fact that we can become so consumed and amazed by something man-made; i.e. video games, cars, money, people, celebrities; instead of the one who created every teenie tiny detail of you me and the rest of this world and what inhabits it, is absolutely ridiculous the more I think about. How can we covet the fruit of the creator, but not the creator himself? It's simply absured.

But it does make sense, in the fact every single person on this earth is a worshipper by nature. If we aren't worshipping God then what we deem as important at the moment becomes our God of the moment. We were created to worship God, it's our only purpose in life. Life is simple, we have complicated it. We have all these urges that we feel the need to meet instead of the ones telling us to serve God, worship God, etc. The more you seek God and get into the word, the more you see how irrelevant most of things we chase are. It's the most convicting feeling I have everyday. I feel that if I'm not reading my Bible, praising and worshipping God, or genuinely helping someone out; that I'm in error in my walk with Jesus. This has began to provoke a life change for me. I've realized how selfish and prideful I truly I am. God himself; the true king, ruler, and saviour of this fallen world; came to this earth as meer servant. The king came to serve and save people, and then sacrificed his life for us. Like truly try to grasp that. Here's a bad example but imagine your favorite celebrity coming to you and saying, "hey I'd like to be your servant, and if you run into any trouble, especially trouble worthy of the death penalty, I'll take your place on the execution table." That alone seems uncomprehensible, yet God in the flesh did just that for us! So how can we say we deserve anything but death when our own saviour died for us? We can't. It's by his grace and mercy that he loves us, and we should be content with that alone. We owe it to him to praise him, to worship, and to exalt him. I just pray that we let him lead or lives and be the center of our lives. That we let his spirit feel us up, and guide our lives because without him we are nothing but a spiritual criminal...

Bible Reading Plan

I have a Bible app on my phone that gives me a daily verse with a topic.
I'm gonna give my thoughts on the verse and try to meditate on it each and every day. Hopefully I can stay consistent with this...

Accountability - James 5:16

James 5:16 "Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results."

I've found that having a friend, or friends, to hold you accountable for your actions makes your walk with Christ that much more enjoyable and convicting. Also having someone who sincerely prays for you is amazing, especially when you know they're working just as hard as you to improve their relationship with God. It gets hard at times to try and walk alone. Having people who understand you, where, and what you've been through is very comforting feeling. Plus it makes you more transparent, in other words you have nothing to hide and being able to be yourself completely with no secrets brings a sense of peace and joy that's indescribable. I definitely need to continue to work on my accountability.

Thoughts for the day 7/4/12

Proverbs 18:21
The tongue has the power of life and death,
and those who love it will eat its fruit.

Speak life to one another. Be positive and encouraging with your peers, including the ones you're not too fond of. Your words have power, use that power wisely. Forgive one another. There are too many people in this world who've missed out on helping their family, friends, and loved one because of petty disputes and grudges. If you LOVE somebody, then LOVE them as GOD loves you, unconditionally. That goes from family to friends to even your newest acquaintance. Realize that nobody is perfect, and that people are inevitably going to make mistakes, just like you do...Just some thoughts for the day...

Patriotic logos

Logo edit

Decided to do something a little unorthodox with my color scheme for this team. Makes the uniforms really POP.

Teambuilder Comes Out Today!!!! (Potentially)

Every year, for the past 3 years, around this time teambuilder comes out right before NCAA Football and it allows you to create a team on the website and upload it onto your game. Which is the reason why I'll be randomly posting logos on this blog.
Normally I just make the logos, edit the uniforms, and pick a already completed roster, but this year I've decided I'm gonna actually go through and edit each player on my teams in order to make my team feel more like MY team. Plus it'll help pass time this next week until the game actually comes out on the 10th.
I don't know if I'm more excited to have something to do or actually excited for teambuilder because chances are they haven't made any drastic changes to the website. Which is beyond frustrating because this feature of the game has so much potential to be ridiculously amazing, but year in and year out EA neglects to enhance their most innovative feature...

Logos

My Boss > Your Boss

I swear I have one of the koolest bosses ever. This is the 1st boss that I've had that realizes that this is not a job i'm trying to make a career. plus she's flexible with scheduling my shifts. I told her in the fall semester I go to a lot of football games on the weekend and she was like kool write on your class schedule "football" and I'll remember not to schedule you on the weekend so you can go to them. I honestly probably got a little too excited, but I've never had a boss that actually cared enough to schedule around my interests. All in all I'm just thankful that I've been blessed with such an amazing, chill boss.

Random Thoughts of the Day

Let’s see if I can begin to consistently do these…

I think it’s crazy how distance can make you feel so unattached to the people you hung out with on an everyday basis. It’s there’s no hard feelings or anything, it’s just since you don’t have that ability to chill with them everyday, and neither side makes an effort to keep consistent communication alive you feel like you are growing apart in sense. I know that regardless of what happens we’ll be there for one another cause that’s just how its always been no matter has happened, so with that being said it doesn’t upset me. Is that wrong? I don’t think so…

Next Thought: Dreams

I feel like if somebody has a dream, or goal they want to pursue, regardless of what it is or how far-fetched it may seem, it’s our duty as a society to encourage one another to strive for our goals. Being negative destroys creativity. By destroying creativity, we’re destroying inventions and innovations to our world. In other words, we’re causing the advancement of the people around us to stalemated. It’s not wrong for somebody to think outside the box, and/or reach for things we don’t think they’re capable of obtaining. Positive reinforcement is 100x more effective than discouragement, at least in my mind.