Age..... Who Cares?!?!?!?!?

The other day I was thinking about my age 16.... and sometimes I hate it when people ask for my age and I say 16. The look on there face is like I thought you were older but now I'm gald that I'm able to say that I'm 16.

I'm glad about this because this should be a way of me saying if God can use me a 16 year old then he can use someone thats older than me and some one that is younger than me as well. God has taught me that if you are willing to let God use you he is not going to say hold on until you are 18. In the Bible God considered 13 year olds men. One scripture that I like alot is the one found in Jeremiah

"Before I formed you in the womb I knew [a] you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations."
6 "Ah, Sovereign LORD," I said, "I do not know how to speak; I am only a child."
7 But the LORD said to me, "Do not say, 'I am only a child.' You must go to everyone I send you to and say whatever I command you. 8 Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you and will rescue you," declares the LORD.
9 Then the LORD reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me, "Now, I have put my words in your mouth. 10 See, today I appoint you over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and to plant."

I like what it says here because I replace Jeremiah's name with mine (you should do the same). The firs time I read this verse was when Jessica gave me a card when I first started serving and It had this verse and I though cool and I reda it and didn't think much of it but now that I read it takes on a whole new meaning for me.

His Way or the High Way

OK ever since I became a senior or even before that people would ask me what I wanted to do with my life. My answer would be I have no clue. After I would ask people what they see me doing with my life and this is what some people told me....

I see you being involve one way or another in youth ministry, like Doug Fields, big business man, pastor. I would pray about this and I felt convicted by God because I felt like I was letting those people dictate what I was going to do with my life. God was telling me "Hey I'm God and none of the people that you are asking know your future so stop doing that!!!" This reminded me of the verse where it says "I alone am God"

OK so now to what I really wanted say. Last week I was thinking and praying about what God wanted to do with my life and I was telling god my passion the things I like to do the things I'm good at and I was like all this equals youth pastor. When I thought about this I told God that this is what I want to do after looking at what I like to do but let your will be done not mine and if this isn't your plans I'm OK with that because I want what you want.

So help me pray about this and please pray for God's will to be done.

I Come Clean

I said it last week in the Big Welcome that Peter is my mirror. To be honest I said that because that's what came to my mind and I have taken time to think and Peter is my mirror. He is the only person that I can talk to and I know whether I like it or not I can't keep anything from him. I picture him like a cop who is prosecuting the suspect and the suspect all the time. The thing about this cop is that when he looks at this prosecutor is that the cop doesn't have say a word all he has to do is look at me and I crack open. This is good but sometimes this doesn't feel good at all. Even though at the end I feel better but its the process that gets me there that i got so use to avoiding that since I have been meeting with Peter is this process that now I'm willing to face it because I know that its worth it at the end.

So get a mirror because this way you are going to be able to look deep inside of your heart and dig out those things that are deep down inside.

Jessica remember that lesson that you shared in bible study last school year about how we must stop and ask God to show us the things in our hearts that we need to change well Peter has helped me and also my alone time with God.

p.s. (Bible study went good except for three of the kids talking and laughing I felt like kicking them out but besides that everything else was good Missed You. Hope you enjoyed your cult.)