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Name: Roger (the shrubber)
State: California
Interests: playing guitar and bball, eating ramen, crashing helicopters, iron chef
Expertise: making fried rice, maintaining shrubberies
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Occupation: Student
Industry: Engineering
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Member Since:
1/18/2003
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| How do we continue to deny God? This is something I've been
struggling with recently. Sometimes we think there exists a certain
responsibility associated with being a Christian. A certain
responbility we owe to God. But I think that the word
"responsibility" establishes a feeling of being forced to do certain
things or be a certain way because it comes with being who you are (say
an older brother, a friend, parent, etc). But I strongly
feel that while our the feeling of responsibility in our social and
familial relationships is good and even essential, our relationship
with God must be held in a different context. Because we love Him
so much, it should be based on a wanting, a strong longing to serve God
rather than responsibility. In fact, He does call us His
children, so why do we even deny our Father? Why do we continue
such detrimental behavior that sometimes even turn others away from
Christianity? Well, we are in fact humans and all do have
character flaws (whether we admit it or not =) ). But I think if
we slowly change our perspective of our relationship with God from
"man, i have such a big responsibility towards God!" to "man, thank you
God for continuing to love me! i can't wait to serve You," maybe our
actions might just reflect this as well.
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| wow. what else can i say? thank you God for blessing our small
group with so many wonderful sophomores. i continue to pray that
you will guide us in spiritual growth and become soley focused on You
and
Your Word as a community of loving brothers and sisters. i ask
that, in our minds, we become smaller and smaller while You grow larger
and larger. Amen.
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| such a whirlwind of a first week and its not even over yet.
uncertainty, anxiety, and anticipation all rolled into one and you
get......i don't know what you get. but i do know that i can
depend on faith in God alone.
Hebrews 11:1 "Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see."'
faith and trust are such spiritual anchors.
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| so i'm back...at home that is. its been about one year since i've
written in this xanga, one year since i've left for college, and one
year since i've felt this excitement of starting school again. i
have to admit that i did in fact enjoy freshman year although i made a
few small but regrettable mistakes over the course of two
semesters. however, i am eager to find out what God has planned
for me this semester. after this summer's sophomore group i'm
feeling excited about the future semesters in iv. though i'm
merely a 'newbie' to the group, i believe i now see a glimpse of why
the sophomore guys and gals felt there is so much potential for our
group to become the extreme community they talked about at the
beginning of summer and why they were so impatient for summer sophomore
group to begin. now i am anxious to see what God will do in
the next semester because i believe it will be something awesome.
whether it will be externally visible or not i believe God will touch
everyone in some way.
My Utmost for His Highest had a great lesson this past week about
deciding for God vs. yielding to God. "...If I say--I wonder if I
am of any use--I insantly lose the bloom of the touch of the Lord. 'He
that believeth in me, out of him shall flow rivers of living water.' If
I examine the outflow, I lose the touch of the Lord..." this is
something i think we should all keep in mind when trying to be good
disciples of Christ and in this fall semester of 2004.
Roger
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| i promise i will update as soon as i come home! ...really!
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