Highschool.

Wow, so High school has been... Okay, so far. On the first day of classes I spent close to 15 minutes trying to find a clasroom that didn't even exist! Typical, though. It's been good regardless. I've already met some cool people. While I was in Planning this morning, we were doing a poll on Values and the top four were Freedom, Friendship, Family, and Success. I was the only one who voted for Religion. Well, really. GOD can give us all that. Package deal. Later on, when we were drawing pictures of our values, I looked over and saw THREE people writing Jesus and drawing a cross on their paper. Why they didn't raise their hand when asked if Religion was important to them, I don't know. On a good friend of mine's status, she had a quote by Alex Harris and part of it said " Our world cannot last another generation of Christian young people who fit in." Which I think is SO true!! So, I was curious as to why they didn't put up their hand; not that I'm judging them for it, because I'm not. Also, I'm not saying they aren't a true Christian, I was just wondering WHY. Because they're afraid they won't fit in? Because they don't want to be labeled a Jesus Freak? Well, I think that's the best label that can be given.

If we want people to hear the Word of God, we gotta do something! If we want people to feel the way we feel when we hear His voice, WE have to speak up. Like, it's time to wake up people. No one's going to hear if we don't tell them. Honestly, a lot of 'youth' or 'adolescent' people are so inspiring! We aren't doing this for ourselves, we're doing it for our Savior; Jesus Christ because to me, that's the LEAST I could do for Him after what He did for me, for all of you! But don't force it on them, it's not us who is going to save them, it's Jesus. He's the only one who can truly capture their hearts and transform them into what they were put on this earth to be. My Aunty Jenn told me, when I was struggling with someone who was so set on not believing that "You've done all you can, now let Jesus do the rest." This also applies to SO many other things!! If you ask God for something, say, a job promotion, He's not just going to give it to you like that, you've gotta work for it. Just like YOU can't save someone, only Jesus can, and just like YOU have to work for something you want even after praying about it.

Of course, we can lay all of our problems on God, because He can totally help us, but what I'm trying to say is you can't just pass all of your needs and desires to Him and say 'here ya go, hook me up!' You've gotta put some effort into it. And of course, have FAITH in Him and everything else!! Faith is so important. SO important.

2 Peter 1:3-9 - "His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and goodness. Through these He has given us His very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires. For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But if anyone does not have them, he is nearsighted and blind, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his past sins."


Ponder that thought! He has everything we need! EVERYTHING. Love, compassion, friendship, mercy, grace, forgivness, discipline, successfulness, and the list goes on; but I think you get my point. Without God, we are nothing.


Love you all,
Torch.