UPDATE: Sonic went great! $800!! :)
I only need $2600 more!! I know that He will provide! This has been an amazing journey and i havnt even been on the trip yet! I got six shots a few weeks ago and it hurt so bad! I also was able to get my bag and some of the things we are suppose to bring. Things are really coming together! I leave in a 1.5 months! :)
I promise to start updating more often! I'm thankful to you guys!
Our lesson for this week is love!
I love chick fil a
I love my family
I love my friends
I love my room
...I dont really love all of these things the same but i use the same words! This is not the love that is talked about in the bible.
Matthew 22:34-40
34Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. 35One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question:
36"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?" 37Jesus replied: " 'You must love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'[a] 38This is the first and greatest commandment. 39And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'[b] 40All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."
We are called to love God with all of our heart, soul and mind - this is also Deuteronomy 6:5
We are called to love our neightbor as its also said in Leviticus 19:18. We are to love others with the same type of devotion with which we love God. We are called to fully give ourselves fully to our neighbors, to love them in a way that is self sacrificing and self giving. To love is to give to someone what that person needs.
John 13:34-35
34"A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. 35By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another."
We are to love each other just as Jesus loved his disciples. This is powerful and should serve as a constant reminder to the self sacrificaing way in which we are called to love. Jesus loved his followers, he served them, sacrificed for them, and eventually died for them. It was the ultimate picture of self-sacrificing and self giving love that we read about in Matthew 22.
"All people will know" - The world will know that we are followers of Jesus IF we love each other in a self sacrficing and self giving kind of way.
I pray that i love better so that this dark world might see Jesus' light shine through me.
1 coringthinas 13:1-8
John 4:7-21
