Starting it now

Well i told myself that i would start a journal, but i really hate to write so maybe i'll just make it a blog. I also changed the title of my account because i'm gonna be going over 2 Peter and i don't know how long it's gonna take so just sit back and hang on. Chapter 1 verse 1, 'Simeon, Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours by the rightiousness of our God and savior Jesus Christ.' We know Peter because of his writings in the bible and we also find out what kind of man he was in the gospels. He was a fisherman in the sea of Galilee and had a brother named Andrew. What could it take for a man who had been a fisherman all his life, after catching a net full of fish, to just drop everything and go. I bet he looked at that net full of fish like he had so many before, and realized that he could fill that net 100 more times, and in the end it would still end up being an empty net. He had everything he needed standing by the shore asking him, "Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men."Mathew 4:19. I guess what i'm saying is that we should be like peter and drop our nets. Matthews account says that peter didn't even think about it, he just dropped everything. Lets fill our lives with the love of God that was shown to us through Christ, which is eternal, imperishable, undefiled, and unfading. And should we fail just as peter did in the final days of Christ when he denied Christ three times, it should show us just as it did to him how weak we are, and the hurt and pain that we feel when we let Him down. But realize that we fall short of the glory of God and He is merciful and forgiving to those that repent. Well that was a little longer than i expected and i could keep going but i'm gonna cut it here, but i'll pick it up as soon as possible. I guess next time i'll actually start talking about the bible verse! HA. I hope this is an encouragement and may peace and grace be multiplied to you.

mr. donut

i really felt compelled to write about what our topic was at coffee tonight with the guys. The topic was all about being complacent. The dictionary says to be compacent is "to be pleased with oneself and esp. their merits," and at the end of the definition it says "without awareness of potential danger." Let me just start off by saying that being complacent is one of the most dangerous situation that a christian can put him or herself in. What if Christ, while he was carrying the cross to the top of the hill, would have said, "well thats good enough, you get the point." When we think that we have done our part and decide to take a break we have taken ourselves out of the race, we have lowered our shields of faith and are allowing all the flaming darts from the evil one to hit us. It's writen in Rev. 3:15-" I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth." Is that really how we want to approach the throne of God? As christians who decided to feel safe and comfortable where he or she was at in life. The solution to avoiding this is fellowship, prayer, and staying in the Word. You must be humble and know, expecially at our age, that we have a lot to learn and have done practically nothing. This is something I definitly struggle with and the scariest part is that it happens without realizing it. Remember that we are at our strongest when we are weak, so if you notice that you aren't really repenting as much, or that fellowship has become a chore, than knock yourself in the head and ask God for a help, because you CANNOT do it on your own. He is all that matters, and remember that He is our crutch and we are not His. Hope you all have a blessed week and continue to pray for me, I took to many steps backwords and still trying to bounce back.

I'm New

Ok.....i've never writen a blog before and I really don't know what to start off with, but here we go. I guess we're go with who I am and how I got to where I am now. I am from Amherst County, Va, I'm 22, and I'm a growing christian that trys to grab ahold to every oppurtinity that will make my relationship with God a little bit closer. I've been doing a disciplship with Matt Cyr for the last 7 weeks and in the process, really have gotten to know who my God really is. He is loving, compationate, patient, all-knowing, never changing, forgiving, merciful, BIG, etc. Its hard to believe that a God as great as that can want a relationship with something as puny as myself. I have done a lot of wrong things in my old life without Christ, but it makes me feel a lot better when I know that everthing that weighed down my heart has been lifted by my savior Jesus Christ.Colossions 1:13-14 "For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sin. I still struggle with old habits everyday and am still learning how to avoid temptation, but it makes me want to fall on my knees when i remind myself that God loves me just as much during my failures, as he does my success. One other thing about myself is that i'm in the military and chow only come 3 times a day and its coming up right now so I need to stop. God is so great and I pray that my walk will never drift off His path that He has layed out for me, and I ask that you do the same.