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Not much to post currently, but I thought I'd put up something cool.




Job 23:10 "But He knoweth the way that I take: when He hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold."

Lamentations 3:24 "The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him."

Hello!

First, thanks to all of you who commented, I was very encouraged, not only by what everybody said, but because of the number of responses I got. I'm praying for all of you guys!

Now, what's been going on... Just got done with a busy week... and yet another busy day today. I've also joined facebook just recently, and met quite a few of my friends on there. (Thanks for making me join Jon!)

So the main story for this week.... Work on a laptop... and this wasn't just any laptop... it was the laptop owned by the president where I work. So anyway, this laptop was running Windows Vista, which hasn't been around that long, so I've not had a ton of experience with it yet. It experienced a problem that I had never seen before... and everything was in Japanese!!!


Eventually after going through a ton of screens, the problem was resolved! I brought the laptop back to the president... and he was happy!! So... good stuff!!


I've been trying to think recently of some places to go to get some new, and good photos... I, as of yet, haven't managed to think of that place, but there are a few in the back of my mind.

I guess this Saturday it has been decided that we will be have a party of sorts, and play paintball. Friday as well as today GA showed just how much they love me, by charging me money for my birthday... YIPPEE... License, $35... Car Tax, $240, Paying through the nose when your birthday comes around, Priceless!

So anyway... sorry I don't have anything really interesting to post this time... I'm sure more interesting stuff will happen in the future that I will gladly share with all of you! Till then, keep praying for me, and I will most definitely be doing the same for you! It is my hope that myself and all of my friends will be willing to give their all, and stand to the utmost against what we know is wrong, and to never let down the high standard that God has put in us, and not to let things around us effect us as to lower that standard!

James 1:12 "Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him."

At it Again

I've been absent from posting recently, mainly because of a lack of things to post... But I've finally got a few things to put up mostly on the picture page, so here goes. I guess I'll try to go in chronological order...

Not this weekend, but the weekend prior, we went over to Callaway gardens and did some biking, this time we did not have so many bike problems, just flipping food cart problems =) which of course held the most important part of the day... the food!!! It was a lot of fun though, as part of that though, I brought along my new toy... My iPod, pictured here..

Originally I wasn't going to get one for myself, but it worked out that way, and now I'm having some fun with it. Some of you probably recognize the movie on there, but in case you don't it's "Sabrina" from 1954, staring Humphrey Bogart, William Holden, and Audrey Hepburn. (Good movie) Of course I wasn't using it to watch movies on our biking trip, I just had it in my pocket so I could listen to some music while we went along. I kept the volume low enough so I could still hear and talk, but at the same time enjoy the background music.

Throughout the week, there was not much exciting happening, just the usually work thing. Friday night some of us took the time to watch "National Treasure," which also happens to be a really cool movie. Then Saturday turned out to be a pretty lazy day for me, haven't had one of those in a loonnng time. Today (Sunday) was anything but lazy!

It started out with church this morning, we went over to Grace Fellowship, where they were celebrating their 25th anniversary. It wasn't the normal thing, they had a slide show, and special music, recognition of some of the founding families, and all that stuff. Afterwards I stopped over at Wal-Mart to pick up some stuff to do some cleaning on my car. I also ended up finding some stuff to repair the chip in my windshield that's been there for quite a while now, and it actually did a pretty good job.

While I was waiting for it to dry properly, I saw these little flowers outside of my house... I probably have passed them every day for at least a week now, and never noticed. Funny how easy it can be to take something for granted... Something so beautiful sitting right outside of my house, that I never even noticed. It just made me think of all the people in my life that God put there, and I just want to say I don't take any of you, my friends and family for granted. I love you all, and don't know what I would do without even 1 of you! "They" say you never know what you had until you've lost it, and I hope that's not the case with me, cause right now I think I have the greatest friends and family in the whole world, and I'll try with all my power never to take one of you for granted! Love you all!

I was reading in Philippians the other day, and was reading about Paul's love for God. He said that he would rather be with God, than here on this earth, but for the sake of the saints, he knew it was necessary for him to stay. What a relationship Paul must have had with our Lord, what depths of love for Him. It is this type of relationship I desire with God, and the type I desire for all of those that might read this! I started thinking about my past a little, and where I am now, and have been coming to a conclusion... If I am exactly where God wants me to be, my relationship with Him will be growing stronger and stronger! If I'm doing what He wants me to do, I will have a greater and greater desire to know Him. On the other hand, if the fellowship I have with God is falling apart, if I don't have that desire in my heart, to drive me to know Him more, am a really doing what He wants me to do? I know I've been there.

Now I understand, it maybe sometimes that some of us are going through a difficult time, and that's why it's not as easy to seek after God, but this should not end up being a constant state! We have a personal savior, not one who will save us then let us be. He desires a relationship with us! He desires us to seek after Him with all our heart. I could be sitting around, content and taking God for granted, and yet totally miss it! Yet at the same time I could be doing the most amazing thing "for God," and miss it just as easily. With those verses in Philippians, God has really given me a desire to know Him more! To strive for that relationship with God, like that Paul had! I know that when any of us are doing that, that is the time God will bless and reward us! Outside of that close relationship with Him, things will end up being fruitless, and barren. So it's my prayer that whatever I'm doing, that I would be in God's will and that it would only cause my relationship with Him to grow... never diminish! So if anybody has any testimonies about what God is doing in their life, what new thing God might be showing you, or something that God has done to draw you closer to Him, please, e-mail me, leave a comment, call me, let me know somehow! Hearing about what God does in other peoples lives is one of my favorite encouragements! And often times God will use that to show me something special too!

Anyway... That was really long! But it's been something that God has been showing me, and I wanted to share it with all of you!

So, I saw my Aunt's blog last week sometime, and saw that she posted this picture up there. And I thought first that it was really cool that she put it up, and it also reminded me of the day I went to do it, and the memory I have of all of that whole thing! I just thought it was cool, so here's another look at it, from a post long ago... and what seems like an age ago....

Hebrews 11:6 "But without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him."

Romans 10:17 "So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God"