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.