Here you go, Jeff

Apparently I am supposed to post a blog everyday, even when I'm not "feeling very poetic".
After being enlightened by Jeff's blogging expertise, I'm taking a new approach and hopefully will post more regularly.

Today was an interesting day. I am more excited now than ever about mine and Jeff's future, reguardless of what that may be.

I am still a bit frustrated with myself, however. Even though faced with a greater urgency to seek God's face now more than ever before, I find myself not seeking as adamantly as I should. Why is that? God promises His word will accomplish what He sent it out to accomplish, and that if we seek Him with all our hearts we will find Him. Why do we foolishly yield to our flesh, when we as believers know that it has brought us nothing but death? "It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing;" John 6:63

I guess, in summary, my most recent struggle has been to totally yield and submit myself to walking in the Spirit, to where there's nothing left for my flesh to have. Then I will be free to seek God with all my heart, and find His desire and will for our future.

Aahhh, Spanish-American Civilization and Literature...

Yep, it looks like we already have a winner for least favorite class... and ironically it's a class under my major. Typically I could deal with the less than stimulating material and the monotonous lectures, but this class is going to test a bit more than my attention span. My faith, as it has before in my college career, was tested the very first day of class when a movie was put in that was, let's just say, below my moral standards (two words- FORIEGN FILM). I was immediately faced with the decision to a.) Watch it, and grieve the heart of God, or b.) Stand for my convictions and kindly explain to the professor that I don't watch those movies. Well, choosing the latter, I got a response of puzzlement and annoyance. The professor, needless to say, DIDN'T share my convictions. Welcome to the world...

"Like a trampled spring and a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked."
Proverbs 25:26

Encouragement

"For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways," declares the Lord. "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return there without watering the earth and making it bear and sprout, and furnishing seed to the sower and bread to the eater; so will My word be which goes forth from my mouth; it will not return to me empty, without accomplishing what I desire, and without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it."
-Isaiah 55:8-11

God has encouraged me greatly in this passage as I seek and wait for a clear word from God about mine and Jeff's future. It's comforting to know that He has a specific purpose for His word, and that if I seek and follow His word, it will accomplish His desire for our lives.

Exciting Times

Life is pretty exciting right now... I'm getting married, planning a wedding, preparing for a life together with my love and my best friend, and praying about some very pivotal and life changing decisions that we are being faced with right now. Even though the unknown is scary and a bit uncomfortable, it is so exciting! I can't wait to see where God takes Jeff and me on life's journey together, and I couldn't think of anyone better to go through it with.