Monday, May 28, 2012
Really?! What in The World!
OK so I am so amazed that it is Northwood's SUMMER BREAK!!!! I have had an amazing year meeting new friends (boys and girls). :) I really enjoyed my first year of public school. Some of the friends that I have met turned out to be my best friends! I hope to have many more years at Northwood! Go Panthers!
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Daily Devotional for January 5, 2012
Of course I did not write this devotional but it are very good. If you haven't read the devotion for December 28th the one I did before I encourage you to read it. Hope you like it!
“Lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him and He will make your paths straight” Proverbs 3:5-6
You’ve probably heard the expression “flying by the seat of your pants.” It smacks of living in a random, spontaneous, unconnected way. And, if I am being honest, there are times when that seems like a great option to me. My life is pretty organized and predictable and the thought of just flying free of all the schedules and daily restraints can feel quite appealing. But when you know what pilots mean when they caution against flying by the seat of your pants, you know that living life randomly by your own instincts and feelings can be a really dangerous thing.There are two ratings for pilots. One is called VFR (Visual Flight Rating) and the other is called IFR (Instrument Flight Rating). VFR pilots fly by sight. And as cool as it may seem to fly on your own without restraint or direction, it can be disastrous. When you fly into a bank of clouds or into the darkness of night, you lose sight of points of reference. Studies show that at this point flying becomes treacherous because the pilot’s senses often become confused. A pilot who can’t see where he is going can actually think he is flying upward when he is really flying toward the ground. They call this “flying by the seat of your pants.”
An instrument-rated pilot, on the other hand, has been trained to read all the instruments and, with disregard to his feelings, fly by what the instruments say to be true. So, don’t ever get on a plane with a pilot who is only rated VFR!
And, I might add, don’t live like that either.
There is a huge parallel here. We can choose to live lives that are driven by random impulses and feelings or by a trusted point of reference. And here is a major warning: Without a trusted point of reference, we are all in big trouble. At the core we are fallen people. With great regret, I have come to realize that my first instincts in a given situation are usually wrong. They may feel right at the moment, but in the long run they prove to be destructive. That’s why the God who knows how dangerous we can be when we fly life by the seat of our pants warned, “There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death” (Proverbs 14:12).
You wouldn’t want to fly VFR, so why should you want to live like that? Your trusted instrument panel is the Word of God! The God who knows our frailty has given us a point of reference for every situation of life. So, trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. No matter what you’re flying into—a tough meeting at the office, some dark seduction, the uncertain clouds of the results of your scan—fly by the totally reliable, always clear principles of God’s Word!
Enjoy the safe landing!
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Daily Devotional for December 28
I did not write this devotional. I was laying on the floor reading this and I want to share it with all of you guys.This one really opened my eyes on some things. When I was reading this I was listing to "Your Love" by Brandon Heath. I hope you like it!
One of my all-time favorite jokes is about the guy who was applying for a truck driver’s job. As part of the oral exam to pass the driving test, the instructor said, “Let’s say you and your sidekick Bob are going down a steep hill and all of a sudden your brakes go out, and at the bottom of the steep incline is a train stalled on the tracks. What would you do?”
The applicant replied, “I’d wake Bob up!”
Puzzled by his response, the instructor asked, “Why would you wake up Bob?”
“Well, me and Bob have traveled a lot of miles together and we have seen a lot of pretty spectacular wrecks, but Bob ain’t never seen a wreck like the wreck that’s going to happen at the bottom of the hill!”
This fallen, broken world we live in is a lot like a runaway truck without brakes—on its way to sure destruction. And I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to be caught sleeping in the passenger seat of that truck!
Thankfully, Paul makes it very clear that Jesus provided a way of escape from this fallen, destined-for-destruction world order. When he told the Corinthian believers in 2 Corinthians 5:17 that old things are passed away, he was talking about the old world order that is headed for judgment. And Paul uses the past tense to assure us that the certain doom is already accomplished. Thankfully, Jesus has already paid the price to avert our riding this world’s 18-wheeler to disaster. It is historical fact, already accomplished for those who are in Christ.
What that means for those of us who are in Christ is that we are no longer in the death grip of the “old things”: All the dark seductions of our fallen world. All the lying and deceit. All the over-the-line sensuality and immorality. All the damage and despair caused by slavery to sin. This is all the old, outdated stuff that is marked for judgment and extinction.
Instead, we as His followers are part of a “new creation.” When Paul proclaimed the good news that “the new has come,” he used the perfect tense of the Greek language, indicating a past action with continuing results. In other words, there are ongoing ramifications of Jesus’ past action to save us. In the perfect tense, His past action is intended to continue to produce results; results that reflect the new order of a life in the grip of Jesus’ love. New stuff like honesty, purity, forgiveness, generosity, servant hood, faithfulness, and compassion for those who are sleeping in the passenger seat of the runaway truck. His process of making us into a new creation is ongoing, anchored in the historical bedrock of Christ’s sacrifice on the cross. That means that we as His followers are, in a sense, a “work in progress” looking more and more like His new creation all the time.
At the start of this new year, it’s a good time to ask if your life looks more like the old or more like the new. As a “new creation” in Jesus, what are the results in your life that clearly reflect His new way of living? Let’s wake up to the fact that we don’t belong to the darkness of this fallen world, and gladly embrace the new dynamics that God wants to create in our lives.
Live to make progress in the perfect tense of Christ’s finished work and make it a New Year that will be a lot more like the new and a lot less like the old.
One of my all-time favorite jokes is about the guy who was applying for a truck driver’s job. As part of the oral exam to pass the driving test, the instructor said, “Let’s say you and your sidekick Bob are going down a steep hill and all of a sudden your brakes go out, and at the bottom of the steep incline is a train stalled on the tracks. What would you do?”
The applicant replied, “I’d wake Bob up!”
Puzzled by his response, the instructor asked, “Why would you wake up Bob?”
“Well, me and Bob have traveled a lot of miles together and we have seen a lot of pretty spectacular wrecks, but Bob ain’t never seen a wreck like the wreck that’s going to happen at the bottom of the hill!”
This fallen, broken world we live in is a lot like a runaway truck without brakes—on its way to sure destruction. And I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to be caught sleeping in the passenger seat of that truck!
Thankfully, Paul makes it very clear that Jesus provided a way of escape from this fallen, destined-for-destruction world order. When he told the Corinthian believers in 2 Corinthians 5:17 that old things are passed away, he was talking about the old world order that is headed for judgment. And Paul uses the past tense to assure us that the certain doom is already accomplished. Thankfully, Jesus has already paid the price to avert our riding this world’s 18-wheeler to disaster. It is historical fact, already accomplished for those who are in Christ.
What that means for those of us who are in Christ is that we are no longer in the death grip of the “old things”: All the dark seductions of our fallen world. All the lying and deceit. All the over-the-line sensuality and immorality. All the damage and despair caused by slavery to sin. This is all the old, outdated stuff that is marked for judgment and extinction.
Instead, we as His followers are part of a “new creation.” When Paul proclaimed the good news that “the new has come,” he used the perfect tense of the Greek language, indicating a past action with continuing results. In other words, there are ongoing ramifications of Jesus’ past action to save us. In the perfect tense, His past action is intended to continue to produce results; results that reflect the new order of a life in the grip of Jesus’ love. New stuff like honesty, purity, forgiveness, generosity, servant hood, faithfulness, and compassion for those who are sleeping in the passenger seat of the runaway truck. His process of making us into a new creation is ongoing, anchored in the historical bedrock of Christ’s sacrifice on the cross. That means that we as His followers are, in a sense, a “work in progress” looking more and more like His new creation all the time.
At the start of this new year, it’s a good time to ask if your life looks more like the old or more like the new. As a “new creation” in Jesus, what are the results in your life that clearly reflect His new way of living? Let’s wake up to the fact that we don’t belong to the darkness of this fallen world, and gladly embrace the new dynamics that God wants to create in our lives.
Live to make progress in the perfect tense of Christ’s finished work and make it a New Year that will be a lot more like the new and a lot less like the old.
Monday, September 5, 2011
Labor Day
Well today is Labor Day!! A day that we celebrate our labor. I hope that you all have a good Labor Day! :)
Monday, July 18, 2011
The Elkhart County 4-H Fair
Goodness me its almost fair time!! And I am not ready for it but I can't postpone it so I'll have to deal with it. :) If any friends of mine would like to know when I show my calf it is Tuesday the 26th at 3:00 pm. It will be in the Beef/Dairy Arena. So I hope some of you can come and enjoy the Elkhart County 4-H Fair!!!!
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Fun Day
My dad's cousins and their children came to visit from New Hampshire. We had a ball at my great aunts house and pond :) We went swimming in my great aunts pond(which I forgot my bathingsuit so I went swimming in my clothes)!! Then we had a water fight and then we went fishing. It's sad that I only got to see them for a couple hours. Here is some pictures of us:)
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