Jesus loves me

Today at underground at Valley church we had a really cool speaker, Greg Speck. He is an awesome guy and just fun to be around! He talked to us about our journey especially as high school students. He asked us 2 questions...does Jesus love you more if you do a 30 day devotional? No. Does Jesus love you less if you don't do a 30 day devotional? No. Well, wait what, ummmm, I'm confused. What's be point then?!?! He loves us the same either way so we can do whatever we want! We can party and drink and not spend time in the word and He still loves us, YAY!!! Nope. But if I spend all my time with God and no time on homework or sports or having fun and just reading the bible He still loves me the same. Grrrr. I'm lost. Nope nope is the answer. We don't do things so God will love us more but we do them so that we can love Him more. God is not the one who needs help loving people or forgiving, it is us. We can always know more about Him. Being a christian is not boring. One day we can talk a walk and praise God for nature, then do some random acts of kindness, then we can read through a couple chapters of John, then we can spend time with our family. Every day I realize how many huge oppurtunities I have as a christian!! It is sooooo exciting!!! God gives us so many wonderful things to do! 

People always say Christianity is a sprint and not a marathon. What does that actually mean? Well if someone has everyone line up on a line and tells them to run 100 yards, I think everyone could do it. Some people might take a couple of minutes others no time at all. But the point is everyone would be able to accomplish it. It is fairly easy. But a marathon is over 26 miles with no stopping. What sane person does that?!?! If everyone starts on the same line I think a lot of people would just fall down from the start because they know they can't finish or they don't want to try and others will try and slowly stagger off giving up. Very few would make it to the finish line, especially if there was no preparation. That is Christianity for you. It scares many people. They think it will be too much work. They don't think they are good enough for the race or able to finish. Well christians are not perfect the only way we complete the marathon is by the grace of God. We get exhausted and want to give up but we persist through. Some will try and decide it's not for them or that God isn't faithful enough and bad things happen. But the battle is within it is not a battle between God and satan. The battle is between what power we choose. Keep running no matter how exhausted you are. The marathon does not stop once you have kids or you get older it is till the day we go see Jesus!! 

Remember being a christian and a disciple is not about what we did but what we are doing. It is -ing verbs not past tense. I am reading the word daily. I am going to church. I am sharing the good news of the gospel. I am fasting. We are not done and we are no where near complete. Stay on Gods path for you.