Stress

This week has been a week where I feel like I have gone from one thing to another and just been constantly moving around. It is good for me to stay busy as I am usually less tempted to sin but the thing I have been lacking is drawing myself closer to The Lord. In the last week we have had 4 basketball games and a 5th tonight which is also senior night. We have lost 3 of those our only losses for the season. I have been at a loss for words for what to say to the girls because I haven't been praying for them as much or spending time in His word. I just have to be a light in whatever way I can and love people. Just being happy and having the joy of The Lord can make a huge difference in people's lives! Yesterday I woke up at 6 and left at 7 and did not get to go home until 10:30. God is faithful though and He provides rest. The thing not to do is have self pity and dwell in my sorrows and live in the past. I need to acknowledge my sin and pray for forgiveness and be drawn to Gods heart but ultimately I need to keep going in His name! People may not act exactly how you want them to or do the simple things or do what you ask but that does not mean tonight I need to be mad at them and treat them any differently than any other person made in Gods image. I also can not expect people not of God to follow my every wish or act as a christian should. I don't want there to be a stereotypical way for christians to behave or certain things to say because that is not God. On valentines day I think I should be rejoicing in loving others with the love God gave me! People that don't know God can't know pure joy and I should be sad about that and doing everything I can to teach them about God and Him dying for us! Where I live people can get so caught up in thinking that money, and sports provide for us and that we are so much better than everyone else and we don't have sin. Where some people just know they sin! I know I sin and I have been very humbled by that this week. I don't want that to suddenly go away though and go back to having a proud spirit or thinking I am great. That can be my struggle that then I can compare myself to people at my school and say well I live better than this and that person. God doesn't care about my heart in comparison to others He compares about my heart to Him! He is so faithful. When I am weak He is strong. When I don't understand something He does. I don't see it right now, but He does! God is faithful! I love Him so! I need His strength today!