It's high time I blog again. I thought I'd blog while I'm in class learning about genetic modification.
By the way, why do we as humans think we can mess with DNA, the code for life, and get away with it? This is crazy stuff.
But back to the subject. Blogging. Is my blog more like a personal diary? An open place where I can complain? A devotional diary? I think it's all three. I'd prefer it to be more thought-provoking to my readers.
So, this was my weekend. Awesome, awesome awesome. Then Monday hit. BLAM. Like a sack of potatoes. Homework, then class at 8am got me into a nasty mood. I'm realizing as I'm sitting here that it's hard to see the beauty all around when you're looking down at your feet all the time. "Woe is me. My life stinks." Hey! That's not the way to look at things. If I recall, from the various times I DID look away from my feet yesterday, I realized that I was in Starbucks, looking at funny stuff on the internet, reading a children's book, on a nice sunny day, the sun warming my back, a free Venti Cinnamon Dulce cream base Frappuccino on my table, and a friend online. Life, in fact, is good.
Why is it so good, and why do I choose not to look at it?
Proverbs 4:23 (NIV)
Above all else, guard your heart,
for everything you do flows from it.
Hmm... I think i have a heart problem!!! But then…
Deuteronomy 31:8 (NIV)
The LORD himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.
Well. That's more like it. Perhaps I forgot that THE GOD OF THE UNIVERSE happens to be on my side! Let that encourage you. If you are a child of God… He’s got your back!
Matthew 6:25-34 (NIV)
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Ahh… so just rest in the hammock of his peace.
Proverbs 4:23 (NIV)
Above all else, guard your heart,
for everything you do flows from it.
Deuteronomy 31:8 (NIV)
The LORD himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.
Matthew 6:25-34 (NIV)
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
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