Love suffers long...

So I heard this really great sermon titled "Love Suffers Long" by Kris Vallotton I just wanted to put up a few points he made regarding love and suffering.

A woman was recently married and she found out she was pregnant. She went for a check up and she was found to be full of cancer. The Doctor told her that the only way to save her life was to start chemotherapy right away. But do do the chemo she would have to abort the baby, because the chemo would destroy the baby. She looked at the doctor and said with out hesitation, that she would be keeping the baby. And that she would take her chances because she believes in a God who does impossible things. The doctor told her that she had made a very poor choice and that there is absolutely no way she would survive long after the six months left in her pregnancy.
The woman had her baby, and the baby was perfectly healthy. The woman went on to be with the Lord shortly after giving birth. But the point he made was that while it was sad that she died so her baby could live, what was even sadder was the fact that many people live with nothing to die for, and therefor never really live.

He made a great point that Jesus didn't die for your mistakes he died for your sins. the difference comes because a sin is intentionally done whereas a mistake was unintentional. You cant sin on accident.

He made many pionts sbout how when you love much you suffer with the people that suffer.

Luke 6:27“But I tell you who hear me: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,28bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.29If someone strikes you on one cheek, turn to him the other also. If someone takes your cloak, do not stop him from taking your tunic.30Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back.31Do to others as you would have them do to you.
32“If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even ‘sinners’ love those who love them.33And if you do good to those who are good to you, what credit is that to you? Even ‘sinners’ do that.34 And if you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even ‘sinners’ lend to ‘sinners,’ expecting to be repaid in full.35But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.36Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful."

Very interesting sermon... without God you cannot fullfill what this passage talks about

It is normal to suffer becuase you are in community, If you live your life for pleasue and you think tghat joy and pleasure are the same thing, then you will think something is wrong when you go through a season of mourning with someone who is mourning, but really it is just you coming into the Kingdom

too many good pionts.. I cant out them all down here

life goes on...

so I have successfully returned from another family vacation. While it was really fun i cant get over the fact that i now have the option of going on these trips or not. Life is moving forward, sometimes too fast. Looking through prom pictures and thinking back to classes that I loved has made me quite emotional. At graduation it was easy for me to look at my closest friends and say "Ill see you soon", because back then I really believed it. I had everyone tell me that after graduation you never hang out with your old friends again i just never realized that it could be true. I have had some of the best friends going through high school, and I have had Friends that I was ready to leave behind. My life is changing and its seems really fast. I will be going to my last Fine Arts in a week, and while it has never been a goal of mine to win, every year it was just something I would do. It had become routine. While my siblings are getting their class schedules and learning which team they will be on I am looking for an apartment. To be honest it is very overwhelming. But what I am trying to get at, is that I would pray while in school for God to take me out of my routine and for him to use me. I feel now that I'm out of my routine I want it again. The fear of having to enter life, to set career plans and everything is crazy. But I know that God takes you out of you routines and your safe zones so that he can work in your life.
I cant wait for God to start opening doors for me, I cant wait to get on the track he has for my future. I will live in psalm 37:5 "Commit your ways to the Lord, trust in Him, and he will bring them about"... just typing that brought a bit of calm...

welcome to the center of the earth....

so random, journey to the "center of the earth" is really sweet. We drove an hour away from my aunts home to find a 3-d theater, we had already tried two other theaters on this trip, but it was really sweet. I know I'm a goof.

I don't really think there is all that in the earth though, but hey I have been wrong before!

but really its hard to beat the original. The new one made me cry and scream so it gets a few points up there.

I was too scarred to see "Batman", so my brothers went alone. The next morning Jehovah's witnesses came to my door quoting the verse I think it was in Deuteronomy. It was all about how God hates dark spirits and witch craft and stuff, so I don't know but movies like that while they may be really good I will never be able to enjoy.

Any thoughts on movies?