On my Mind......God be there for me.....

[claney05]

Today was pretty boring. First I woke up and went to church. I took Gina, becca, and chrissy to church this morning. Today, was one of the few times that chrissy went to church. I really hope that she had a good time and comes again. I know that it was effected Gina greatly coming to church. I know she is a strong christian but I also am very worried about her sometimes. I have been thinking about this alot lately and I wish I could talk to her face about it and I know that she would listen but I dont think she would understand so I figured I would write it down. I love Gina, and I love the fact that she believes very strongly in the works of God. But there is so many things that she must learn yet and I was hoping I could teach her. I asked her awile ago to have bible studies with me and she didnt think it was a good idea. Well, here is the thing, God talks about how to get to heaven and the things that you must do to go to heaven. One thing that I have also struggled with, well actually two things and that is....1) the bible says that you must be baptized to go to heaven and it had always been a struggle for me going to a Baptist Church when I was younger because they believe that if you ask God for forgiveness he will automatically save you and you are accepted to heaven but that is not the case and this goes into my second point. When you feel that the time is right and you ready to be baptised, then you are to be "submerged" under water. In otherwards must be completely uderwater and you come up a new person. Now many churches argue this sayign that you dont need to be baptized, well here is another point, Aren't we suppost to be a image of Jesus? So I guess some churches skip the fact that Jesus said that he must be baptize to go to heaven. The Son of Man, PERFECT, say that you must be baptized to go to heaven. This is another part that I tried to talk to Gina about, You cant be baptised at a certain age and if your not ready then your heart was not truely ready to accept God. Now im not here saying that other religions are wrong but there are so many points that other churches dont do in the bible. I wish that I could sit here face to face with Gina and talk to her about my point of view on worshiping God and how God wants us to worship but its so hard when I person has been taught one thing in her life and you want to teach her something different. It breaks my heart knowing that a person can love God so much, and give everything to the Glory of Him and yet not be accepted to heaven. One thing that I learned from my friends is that they believe that if you are a good person, you go to church, you pray, and even read your bible that you will go to heaven, but that is not the case. There is so much to learn and you must follow Christ and there is certain ways to do certain things and I pray and hope that one day I will be able to go out in the world and tell people about God and what he wants from us. I figured that the only way that I can help this to move on is to end this in a prayer so here I go......

My Prayer for everyone.....
God thank you for the awesome friends that you have blessed me with. Thank you for Gina, and everything she has done for me. I want to pray that her and her friends can learn the awesome power of you Lord and that you can show them through me. One thing that has always stuck out to me is the fact that you gave me a gift to talk to people and I pray that I can use that to talk to my friends. i pray that I can be an example to everyone around me, to my parents, and to my teachers. I also want to pray for my friend Mauree, she is such an awesome girl and she deserves so many things that I wish I could give her, but I cant. I pray that I will be able to take her to church and for her to see you. I hope that I can show her that she doesnt need the love of a person(bf) but that the Love from you is enough to make her happy for life. I want to pray for joel and for my friends going to Honduras. I want to thank you for your love and sending your son to the cross. All this I ask in your name.....Jesus name.

Well thank you all for listen to what I have to say and I will ttyl.