Heavenly Fruit

In the End He is in Control

2012-01-11T08:59:00.000-08:00

Life is all about balance and I feel like I haven't been doing that lately. I tend to put God at the end of my to-do-list for the day and run out of time constantly. I return to my room everyday exhausted and I feel completely drained. The worst feeling though is when I lose track of my priorities and let things in my life slip. In December of last year I was in this predicament where if I didn't do well in my classes I might not have been able to do some of the activities I am involved in this school year. That scared me because I like what I do and I felt like I would disappoint a lot of people.

But in the end God controls everything in our lives. It is actually a relief to know that someone else controls your life. Yes I have the responsibility of choice but I didn't write the game plan to my life. I ended up making the grades to keep my job and believe me I praise God everyday for what he did for me. But you shouldn't just praise God for what he has done you should worship him for who he is. Because it is an amazing God that loves us enough to keep us on his agenda we we might forget to put him on ours.

Psalm 55:22 Cast your burden on the LORD, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.
Matthew 11:28-29 Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

Straightening Priorities

2011-12-07T08:29:00.000-08:00

This upcoming Spring semester I will be starting my Senior year. These past two years have been filled with interesting people and worthwhile experiences. I love to be always involved in organizations and in the events of the people I associate with. Sometimes I feel like all I do is plan events and do work on class requirements all day.

Ever since I came to college it has been a challenge to fully dedicate the appropriate part of my life to God. Only giving Him my meal times and after I wake and before I go to sleep is not the best amount of time.What I have with God is the most important relationship in my life. And I feel ashamed for not taking more out of my day to glorify and honor my heavenly father.

Psalm 19:14
May the words of my mouth and the thoughts of my heart be pleasing to you, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.

2 Peter 1:5-6
Knowing God leads to self-control. Self-control leads to patient endurance, and patient endurance leads to godliness. Godliness leads to love for other Christians, and finally you will grow to have genuine love for everyone.

Proverbs 12:22
The Lord hates those who don't keep their word, but he delights in those who do.

Life Faith God

2011-06-02T19:21:00.000-07:00

Today my sister had a Baccalaureate for her graduation.When I first heard about it I was lost. I did not know what a Baccalaureate was. It sounded like another ceremony of sorts. I knew it wasn't her graduation because they were on different days. When I graduated I was an International Baccalaureate but some how this did not seem the same, and I was right.

I asked my mom what a Baccalaureate was an apparently it was another ceremony. Forgive me if I was not excited to go at all. I have already been to two graduations and I just didn't want to go to something besides the actual graduation. All four schools of the Irving ISD come together an celebrate the students approaching the graduation day.

Thankfully this event was only 40 minutes. The choir of students sang and then there was a message. In the end I was glad I came to this Baccalaureate.

The man first talked about his friend Sam and how in high school if anything ever happened to anyone it was always happening to his friend. Once when he was in 5th grade they were playing with BB guns, their father's working goggles and their mother's mascara for camouflage. Their #1 rule was to not hit people in the face. One day they heard this ear piercing yelp, some one had been hit in the face, guess what? It was Sam! His nose was bleeding and a BB was lodged in his nostril.

Later in 7th grade they all were into biking. There was this 40 degree ramp and someone had to go down first. Sam decided to volunteer, the speaker talked about how he knew he shouldn't have let Sam volunteer. Sam thought for sure he would gain momentum down the ramp fly momentously in the air and land safely on the other ramp. Of course life can't always be that beautiful the first time. There Sam was soaring through the air like a movie. Conversations slowed down and birds inched through the air in slow motion. All of a sudden it began to speed up. Sam's bike was shaking with all the momentum and there Sam went right over his bike and face first in the asphalt. It is their that Sam's two front teeth are lodged in the newly paved asphalt.

Eventually Sam went to graduate from high school, attend A&M and become the governor of a small town in Oklahoma.

The point of the speaker's personal story was to illustrate how not exactly in the way Sam accomplished it but we all want to leave a legacy and make an impact where we go.

What he said that really stuck is this:

Our life is only as big as our faith, and our faith is only as big as our God.

Isaiah 40:12;21-26 were some of the verses he really hit on.

¹² Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand,
   or with the breadth of his hand marked off the heavens?
Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket,
   or weighed the mountains on the scales
   and the hills in a balance?
²¹ Do you not know?
   Have you not heard?
Has it not been told you from the beginning?
   Have you not understood since the earth was founded?²² He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth,
   and its people are like grasshoppers.
He stretches out the heavens like a canopy,
   and spreads them out like a tent to live in. ²³ He brings princes to naught
   and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing. ²⁴ No sooner are they planted,
   no sooner are they sown,
   no sooner do they take root in the ground,
than he blows on them and they wither,
   and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff.
²⁵ “To whom will you compare me?
   Or who is my equal?” says the Holy One. ²⁶ Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens:
   Who created all these?
He who brings out the starry host one by one
   and calls forth each of them by name.
Because of his great power and mighty strength,
   not one of them is missing.

It great to be reminded that the God I serve is beyond amazing and that my life had no limits because my God doesn't.

So maybe it wasn't too bad that my sister had this Baccalaureate event.