My favourite YouTube video of 2012 I discovered right near the end of the year. The Anti-Santy Ranty, I have nothing against Santa Claus, but God is nothing like that!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpu3v5uxZTY
Monday, 21 January 2013
Saturday, 5 January 2013
Fear
Fear...I can honestly say I'm scared at the moment. I have a week of exams coming up. 3 exams that I have taken twice before and not managed to pass and if that happens again, then that's it. No degree. 2 years of lectures and labs and work to come out officially no more qualified than I was before. I have been working towards this as long as I can remember. I basically decided that I wanted to do chemistry or something similar around my GCSEs, so 2007. That's 5 years ago. I got my place at the end of 2008, 4 years ago. And I've known that I was going to go to university and do a degree since I knew what university was!
And now I don't know what's going to happen. Even if I pass there's still 3rd year to get through, and if I don't, who knows what's going to happen. Wait, who knows? God knows. He knows everything that's going to happen. What I want to do is serve him, preferably in full time paid ministry, He will make that happen when He wants it to. I can't go off God's plan for my life [1], I can make wrong, unGodly decisions and screw up my motives all I want, but He will work them for right in the end[1]. All I can do now is trust that, trust the God who made me and has the power and wisdom to work things out how He wants them, not how I do. Trust and work as hard as I can to glorify him.
[1] for more on this see Just Do Something by Kevin DeYoung, available from The Good Book Company, 10 of those, and Amazon. One of the most useful books I have ever read.
And now I don't know what's going to happen. Even if I pass there's still 3rd year to get through, and if I don't, who knows what's going to happen. Wait, who knows? God knows. He knows everything that's going to happen. What I want to do is serve him, preferably in full time paid ministry, He will make that happen when He wants it to. I can't go off God's plan for my life [1], I can make wrong, unGodly decisions and screw up my motives all I want, but He will work them for right in the end[1]. All I can do now is trust that, trust the God who made me and has the power and wisdom to work things out how He wants them, not how I do. Trust and work as hard as I can to glorify him.
23 Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, 24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ. Colossians 3:23-24
[1] for more on this see Just Do Something by Kevin DeYoung, available from The Good Book Company, 10 of those, and Amazon. One of the most useful books I have ever read.
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