Sleep Walking

 

My prayer recently has been, "Lord, please take away my oblivion. Help me to see the opportunities you place in front of me."

(listen to Give Me Your Eyes by Brandon Heath while watching) 

"All those people going somewhere, why have I never cared?"
"Give me your eyes so I can see everything that I keep missing."
"Give me your arms for the broken hearted; give me your heart for the ones forgotten."
"Couple of million eyes just move and pass me by; I want a second glance to see the way You've seen the people all along." - Brandon Heath - Give Me Your Eyes

I live in the midst of a battlefield (college campus). There's thousands of people surrounding me who have never experienced the love of God. They're confused, hurting, searching, lost people.  Walking to class, passing people by, I don't want to miss the opportunity to share God's love. They need to know.

I feel partially responsible. Like, I have this wonderful knowledge that saves lives, but I'm too selfish to share it. It does no good if I keep it to myself. It's not fair to keep this unconditional, everlasting love to myself.

"I don't want to go through the motions. I don't want to go one more day without You're all consuming compassion. I don't want to spend my whole life asking what if I had given everything instead of going through the motions?" - Mathew West - Motions

I don't want to sleep walk around campus, too caught up in my own busyness to miss all the strife surrounding me.

"When you talk, do not say harmful things, but say what people need - words that will help others become stronger. Then what you say will do good to those who listen to you." - Ephesians 4:29

"So we continue to preach Christ to each person, using all wisdom to warn and to teach everyone, in order to bring each one into God's presence as a mature person in Christ." - Colossians 1:28

These next verses are exactly what I've been feeling/thinking! I thank God for revealing these verses to me, because I was searching for some that related to this subject! He's incredible!

"Continue praying, keeping alert, and always thanking God. Also pray for us that God will give us an OPPORTUNITY to tell people his message. Pray that we can preach the secret that God has made known about Christ. Pray that I can speak in a way that will make it clear. " Colossians 4:2-4

"Be wise in the way you act with people who are not believers, making the most of every OPPORTUNITY. When you talk, you should always be kind and pleasant so you will be able to answer everyone in the way you should." - Colossians 4:5-6

Fix Your Focus

One rainy Monday morning I drove back to college, trying to make it back in time for my class. I pulled in to find no available parking spaces where I usually park. I resulted to parking in the adjacent parking lot, quickly unpacked, and made it to class.

Let There Be Light

"In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven." - Mathew 5:16

"But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin." - 1 John 1:7 

Thanks to my friend Megan for letting me film her! :D

Disappointments to Blessings

I've come to realize that God turns past disappointments into blessings. In the moment of disappointment, it's hard to see the positive. We need to see from God's perspective.