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Acceptance (PT.1)

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What would you change to fit in. Your hair, clothes, attitude. You shouldn't have to change anything. People should accept you for who you are not who people want you to be. Sure you might like what someone is waring and you might add that outfit to your wardrobe, but you shouldn't change your whole wardrobe to gain acceptance. If someone makes you change who you are then you should seriously consider your relationship with that person. God however accepts you for who you and because thats the way he made you. God is not racist like that guy from school. To him what you own is no concern. God will accept you for who you are. Not for the person you are trying to be. 

Trust

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Have you ever had a friend that you called you bestie and you told them everything. Your biggest secret is now something that the person can use against you. You have trusted them with something important to you, did this friend show the same trust to you. We put our trust in a seatbelt that it will protect us if we crash. We put our trust in the teacher that they are teaching the right stuff. But how often is it that we trust in the lord. Is it because we cant see him or touch him. Maybe because we cant hear him speak the way we want him to. If we cant trust him with that little thing, how can we trust him with the big thing. We cant admit to him the wrong that we have done, we dont want him knowing what he already knows. Trust can take a life time to build up but only seconds to break down and another life time to rebuild. Have you broken someones trust that you spent a life time to create.

The Bible is my Textbook and God is my Teacher

You know when you need help in maths you go to your textbook. Well where do we go when we need help with our faith. Do we go to friends maybe family. How often is it that we go straight to our bible. And when we do how often is it that we put ALL our trust in it. We put all our trust in our maths book. But the Bible is like any other textbook, it doesn't have the answers in the back. We actually have to look for them. We have to actually work for the answers. We are a in the moment world who wants answers now. But thats not how God works. He is a teacher, he is the best teacher, but much like the bible he has all the answers but we have to work for it.

Loss

We all struggle with loss. Some may say that we need to move on from what we lost. That we simply need to get over it. That might be easy if you lose a toy or a photo. But what about a life. And what if that life was your best friend. What if you had known that person for your whole Life. We cant simply get over it. Its not something we just blow off and walk away from. Its a matter that stays with us for our whole life. We live in a broken world, a world that is falling around us every day. An earthquake here a flash flood here. What can we do about it. What can fix the problem. Sure we can donate to some charity that is set up to help. But i'm not talking about that kind of help. Spiritual help is one of the greatest kinds of help we can give. When we pray to God about our losses he and only he has the power to take the burden off our hearts. R.I.P Courtney. 

Friends

Have you ever lost a friend you once called your best friend? This is probably because of lack of communication. We get side tracked by other people, other events. This can change us for the worst. We loose a good influence, we get involved with the things we shouldn't have. But we also have the chance to make  a good influence on other people. We could change someones life for the good. When we loose communication with Jesus we change. We stop reading our bible, we stop doing our quiet time and even stop talking with our Christian friends.  When people you know go through this try to help without " forcing religion into their life's." I know you will find it hard but eventually things will pay off. People are more likely to   re-connect with Jesus when you do so. It might take some time but it will pay off.

Change

How often is it that you think about the word change. Once, maybe twice a week and thats probably about weather you should change what you are wearing. I'm not talking about that kind of change. I'm talking about the serious change. Drastic changes in life's and beliefs. People I mentioned or am soon to mention in the remainder of my testimony, have changed in the last weeks. This person who once loved the Lord with everything they had. Times change. With the influence of the norm every thing can change. My life has changed since I started doing this. Stated sharing my thoughts, my stories all for the best. I make changes in peoples life's just as people have made changes in my life. But when people leave places of support, love and friends, things can change for the worst.  If you think times are changing in your life. Maybe you are slipping away from God or have gotten into a bad relationship find someone, someone you can trust. Talk with some...

Camp reflections July

Sorry about not doing this in a while. Life has been really busy.  I have just gotten back from camp.. I learnt so much. I really enjoy being around other Christians that have been through things like I have.  One of the Word 4 U Todays on camp was " People may not remember exactly what you did or what you said, but they will always remember how you made them feel."  How often it it that we remember what our mum made us for dinner or acknowledge them for dropping us of at the bus stop... I bet however that every time they do this you have a little feeling in yourself that little birst of happiness. We can do this so often. Even this second someone is doing something for you without you even knowing...  I came home from camp today and in the car had a rage and burst into tears over something so small that I shouldn't have even noticed it. I said "I tell everyone that I live in a family that is so nice, they love me and would ...