The word of the month/life is Consistency.
I've been putting off writing this blog for quite a while to be honest. The things I have been learning over the past months are beyond tough to grasp. There is nothing more contrary to the world than this.
Our Savior loves us, I don't think this is a big point that i'm going to have to convince people of. However, I do feel like it is overlooked day in and day out that our Savior likes us. If Christ where here in the flesh that He would take delight in spending time with me, that I would wake up to 9 text and 2 phone calls from Him asking when we where going to meet today. Think about it, if God had a wallet, YOUR picture would be in it, and he would show it off to all his friends. He is Proud.
I make this point to bring us back to the word of the month, Consistency. I feel as though I change today for the better and tomorrow for the worse. Bare with me. Over the past while i've been downtrodden with trying to keep up with a perfect Savior. I know it seems elementary in our Faith, but wether we admit it or not, we are trying to earn our salvation. We are trying to recompense what Christ has done for us, give up. Christ did not call us to match His Love and Grace, he called us to accept it and to pass it to our brothers. I take refuge and knowing that regardless of my inconsistency, I serve the One of utmost consistency. Our Fathers LOVE never fluctiates, does that blow your mind or is it just me? Christ Loves me the exact same amount this moment that He did when I committed my first sin against him, and the moment I accepted and embraced Him. I say this as encouragement, to myself and to whomever may be reading this. The Father wants you, he wants the broken mess you are. The Father doesn't just want the spiritually mature, command abiding person you hope to become in the years to follow. He is pleased with you, not in the sin you live in, but in the righteousness He sees in you obtained by the gift of His son.
So take heart, fall on Christ consistency, let Him be what you can't. Give up this false sense of spiritual higharchy over non believers and come to the Father with humility and He will give you rest, He will bare your burden. He is Love.
I am really writing this to myself with the hopes that it resonates with someone out there, so forgive me if this message doesn't appeal to the masses.
On the subject of the trip itself, I leave for training camp next weekend the 19th, I FINALLY get to meet the rest of my family who I will be taking the trip with and it is sure to be a blast. I will update again somewhere around then, Love you all!
In Life,
Tyler
