I've fallen off my blogging here. Honestly, there really hasn't been much to blog about. Well, even that isn't quite right. The Lord works and is so merciful I can't really understand it. But then again, I guess that's pretty much par for the course with me.
It has to be dipping 68 degrees now in Greenville. I'm outside of starbucks in a white t shirt, gray mesh basketball shorts, and dirt colored crocs. I'm not dressed for this chill, but the Lord is making me warm. His word is starting to burn inside of me, and there's little I can do. I feel more inclined toward him now than I have in some time. Moving to Carolina has been the best thing for me. I see the Lord again; I feel his presence near me again like when I used to the summer before seminary. Tonight I planned on writing about Francis Schaeffer's True Spirituality (At least the first 4 pages). That was before Misti's co-worker intervened. And I got to tell her about it instead... She's not a believer. The whole thing is she's got that "all christians are hypocrites... and I don't do hypocritical religion." I agreed with her and said, "well you don't have to go to church to find a hypocrite. they're everywhere, you're a hypocrite, I'm one, anywhere you go you'll find one. In fact, a hypocrite is only a person who's sin is more appearent than the sins of someone else." She decided to try another smokescreen, but I told her about christianity being about Christ's death plus NOTHING else. That there is nothing we can do to earn our salvation... so on and so forth." I do love to share the gospel and have been missing it since I left Dr. Nyquist's class. Lord willing this is only the beginning of our conversations at closing. I can't wait to see how the Lord breaks her from the sin in her life through these conversations. I can't wait to see how he breaks me away from my own sin.
the beauty of all this is that it's thanks to one little question Denise asked me yesterday on the way to visit the boys in Columbia, "have you done any more seminary reading?" I was thinking about that when I left the house tonight - I decided to grab true spirituality instead of my book on Caleb. It's amazing how far a little question can go toward changing a circumstance.
Soundtrack: Band of Horses, David Crowder
Eyeball-track: True Spirituality by Dr. Francis A. Schaeffer; "Caleb" Francine Rivers
