Where to begin?...

Where to begin, I ask myself.  Where do I begin to fill another post with my thoughts, feelings, and anything that may be filling this brain of mine.  To be honest, I don't really know.  Sometimes, I feel like we just do these things to let others read them.  However, I really really want this new blog thing, to be a useful tool to me.  I want to be able to go back in the future and see how far God has taken me.  How much I have changed, and how good God is.  So, I feel like sometimes I go on these tangents about God.  But, then I thought, you know what, if I want to talk to God, then that is my business. Haha... But, how can anyone expect for me to want to talk about anything else then my Lord, my Savior, my Best Friend.  Something that always gives me chills are to think about the many things that God is.  He is the Lord.  He is my Savior, He is Love.  He is the beginning and the end.  He is the Alpha Omega, He is my father.  He is my provider, my sustainer, my giver of life.  He is the creator, He is brilliant.  I am nothing.  Yea, it's true.  I am absolutely nothing.  My best gifts and abilities are nothing more than a pile of crap.  That is without Jesus.  With the Holy Spirit, God has and continually makes me beautiful... For because of what Jesus did I can now confidently walk into God's presence... to His very throne.  Imagine that!  Me (nothing) walking into the presence of the Creator and Sustainer of the Universe!  The ONE who holds the world.  Who set it into motion.  You ask me... how can you believe that?!  I ask you... how can you not!  God has made Himself more evident then the moon is evident in the night sky.  God is indescribable.  

My life at the moment... is different.  God is challenging me in so many ways.  College... mmmhmm I guess what everyone says about it is really true.  It IS a defining moment.  All I know to say is, thank you Jesus for providing me with awesome leadership in high school that have helped me to figure out what I believe.  Not what anyone else does... but what I do.  Jesus!

Like I said... college is a defining time.  I have completely had so many new and exciting experiences.  This past semester I made so many new friends, experienced so many new things, and was blessed to have so many new opportunities and challenges arise.  I don't know what this semester will hold... or what life will hold in the future... all I know is that I am thankful. I am thankful that God is God.  I am thankful for Jesus.  I am thankful for my mentors, Ronald Wilson and Justin McClure.  I am also thankful for my parents... who love the Lord just as much as I do- who support me no matter what.  I am also thankful for my brother... who is such an example and great Christian brother.  I am thankful that I don't have to worry about tomorrow.  All I know is that I am willing.  I want my comfort to come from God.  I don't want to live my life in a boring sense of non-accomplishment.  I want Jesus to look at me one day and say, "Well done, my Good and Faithful Servant." And I don't believe that will result from sitting back and letting others try to harvest all the grain.  May I be His worker, doing His will.  I want to be uncomfortable, so that in Him I may find my comfort. 

My two desires are that I would be like Jesus Christ doing His will, and that I would look like Jesus Christ to you.  May I be just like Him... the one who took on the cross for me... and you.  The one who was perfect.  The one who needed nothing except the love of the Father.  The one who conquered death.  The One who says, "Take comfort, for I have overcome the World."  The One.  The Only One.  The Only Way.

Well, I guess I began where He told me to.  Now, where to end.... hmm... let's just wait and see what God has in store for me!  He is the Beginning and end and all! 

In Christ,

Gregg