So… blogging. This is something I’ve been meaning to do for a while. There have been many times where I am sharing something about my life with a friend and they have responded by telling me to blog. While I normally respond to this by laughing and denying that I would have anything interesting enough to say, I finally decided that it was worth a try. If you are reading this and are still with me… awesome. I would have already reverted back to facebook creeping by now.
Anyway, I have realized through struggling through life’s situations that in order to be joyful, I must choose to have joy. Right now I am half way through the first semester of my junior year at Ouachita Baptist University. Over the last year God has taught me a lot and help me to overcome many trials. Going through them all I wanted was to “just be happy.” Then God helped me to realize that to being happy is not as important as being joyful, and they are not the same thing. So very recently I have chosen joy. I have asked God to help me to strive for joy and so far the journey has been really good. This is the beginning of my life after choosing joy.
God has shown me so much about myself and about himself in the last few weeks. At the beginning of this semester I found myself begging God to but a hunger in my heart for him. As I continued to read his word and continued to beg him for that desire, he gave it to me. He answered that prayer in a way that only he could. It has been a truly incredible experience falling in love with the creator of the universe. I have a deep thirst for knowledge of the things of God and I absolutely love it. His love alone is what has helped me through the first half of this semester. I cannot begin to describe the joy and excitement I have because of my relationship with God. If none of what I have been writing has made sense it’s because I am too excited to think through what I’m saying haha. Those of you who know me fairly well understand that I do this from time to time. The point of what I’m saying I guess is that God is amazing and his love for me continues to amaze me every single day.
So, my first blog seems to be spastic and all over the place. This is fitting I guess since I myself am quite spastic and very much all over the place. Well, maybe next time I’ll be in more of a mood to focus J
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