I would argue that all of us have a fatal design flaw that is our sin and that it is what holds us back.
As I enter this Christmas season I am floored by how much I have to get done with very little time and rest. I find myself very helpless and the stressor is Finals and pushing through this next phase of work being dead hard deadlines that cannot be ignored. So as the great indigo Montoya put it ” Let me explain. No there is to much. Let me sum up.”
I have been in this process of writing and recapping my life on this blog for about 2 and 1/2 months now and in that time much has happened. I have developed a love for hard and raw Christianity. This looks much like taking care of everyone you come across even when you don’t want to or think you can.
I have placed God higher than my money. I have cried with friends. I have sat in parking lots for hours discussing life and the difficulties of following Christ. I have cried over not loving others as well as I could have. I have lost everything just to be given more than my share and be blessed again. I have cared for the powerless. I have spent many an hour in the car with friends and laughed to the ends of myself. I have seen spectacular sunsets over Mountains. I have prayed for hitchhikers. I have loved the weak and needy. I have done none for myself but all for Christ.
Yet the most peace has come to me in the form of my parents when I started to be an adult in a very unfamiliar place. I have seen God completely change me this semester and I continue to fight the urge to get mad and upset and I have made more progress to a place in one day and have found more peace in those decisions I have made this Thanksgiving week than I ever thought before.
This is what it looks like I have determined to fight sin and regression with every ounce of Christ there is in me today. I have lifted my eyes to the Rock that is higher than I today Psalm 61 and I do not fear what is to come of my destruction in the very near future and I have seen no fuller day of Christ in the depth of my soul than today by the way I have fought for Gods way and I will continue to climb after the Cross because what I can give is nothing compared to God for even the worst God gives is better than the very best I can gift I can give to God.
I will be destroyed by sin but I will boast in the Lord for he gives me strength and I will fight for the Lords way most of all.
May this busy season be full of rest for you and may rest come from the adventure of seeing God work in the life of people around you.
Seek the Lord in all things,
Zack
