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my summer is going well, and i hope yours is too. maybe i'll write about it soon. maybe.
from My Utmost For His Highest, by Oswald Chamber, on June 11...(the whole book is really awesome, short devotionals, you should get it and read it and talk to me about it! i bet you'd find some awesome stuff in it.)
..."If I will simply come to Jesus, my real life will be brought into harmony with my real desires."..."At the most unexpected moments in your life there is this whisper of the Lord-"Come to Me," and you are immediately drawn to Him. Personal contact with Jesus changes everything. Be "foolish" enough to come and commit yourself to what He says."...
especially during the school year, I'm just not "foolish" enough. but now it's summer and i am much more "foolish", yet the "foolishness" is not nearly as foolish, because i have more time. so the time i am giving to God is not as "expensive". but of course God is very good and faithful and eager to be with me and blesses me as i come to him.
where do you find your confidence? is it in yourself? is it in the way God made you or the things he has given you? i rely on myself for my confidence. and i think thats one area that God is trying to uproot and empty me out on. not that having some confidence in yourself is particularly bad... but i believe it is something God is undoing in me, because that confidence has been a prideful confidence that i have sort of built a foundation on. rather than a loving confidence in the hope that I have through Jesus, which i can share with everyone around me. that kind of confidence would be such an effective tool in furthering the kingdom of God.
i just typed a lot, and it took a long time, so now its late. God bless. peace :) | 
