What's happening - hot chick
"Faith has such a powerful effect on your life once you open your eyes and see it for yourself."
I helped BSU deliever BBQ chicken dinners yesterday with Lee. I got to talking to him for over an hour in his car, and I found out a lot about him. He is someone who I would like to get to know better. God has filled him with such a spirit that I feel compelled to learn more about how God has impacted his life. I was thinking about asking him to church on Sunday, but he said he was going back to Milwaukee to attend his own church. How awesome is that - he drives two and a half hours to go to church!
I went to the Kappa Alpha Sigma banquet last night. It was so much fun. So I guess the devil and temptation over took me last night and I had a few drinks. According to Katy, it was more than a few. However, I was fine and I didn't get too drunk. At least I felt that way. I think I am going to pledge for them next semester, they seem like a great group!
I don't know if drinking is really a temptation for me. It's not like I feel the need to drink every weekend. I really don't feel the need to drink at all. For me, drinking is more about relaxing and socializing than anything at this point. And I don't drink (anymore) to fill the emptiness inside me, because only God can do that. I'll have to look up the definition of temptation in a dictionary. It was fun though. But does God want us to have fun? Or is life more about how hard you have to struggle to get what you want?
I went out to the 'M' today to read my Bible. I guess God was saying to me that I should repent after last night, and get back to learning and obeying Him. I was trying to find what the Bible said about drinking, and I couldn't find anything specific. Proverbs has a good line in their somewhere about drinking and being stupid, but I am not sure where it is. Maybe it's just about drinking to fill the hole inside, I don't know. I will do some more investigation on that...
Dictionary.com says this :
(1.) Trial; a being put to the test. Thus God "tempted [Gen. 22: 1; R.V., 'did
prove'] Abraham;" and afflictions are said to tempt, i.e., to try, men (James
1:2, 12; comp. Deut. 8:2), putting their faith and patience to the test.
(2.) Ordinarily, however, the word means solicitation to that which is evil, and
hence Satan is called "the tempter" (Matt. 4:3). Our Lord was in this way
tempted in the wilderness. That temptation was not internal, but by a real,
active, subtle being. It was not self-sought. It was submitted to as an act of
obedience on his part. "Christ was led, driven. An unseen personal force bore
him a certain violence is implied in the words" (Matt. 4:1-11). The scene of
the temptation of our Lord is generally supposed to have been the mountain of
Quarantania (q.v.), "a high and precipitous wall of rock, 1,200 or 1,500 feet
above the plain west of Jordan, near Jericho." Temptation is common to all
(Dan. 12:10; Zech. 13:9; Ps. 66:10; Luke 22:31, 40; Heb. 11:17; James 1:12; 1
Pet. 1:7; 4:12). We read of the temptation of Joseph (Gen. 39), of David (2
Sam. 24; 1 Chr. 21), of Hezekiah (2 Chr. 32:31), of Daniel (Dan. 6), etc. So
long as we are in this world we are exposed to temptations, and need ever to be
on our watch against them.
I helped BSU deliever BBQ chicken dinners yesterday with Lee. I got to talking to him for over an hour in his car, and I found out a lot about him. He is someone who I would like to get to know better. God has filled him with such a spirit that I feel compelled to learn more about how God has impacted his life. I was thinking about asking him to church on Sunday, but he said he was going back to Milwaukee to attend his own church. How awesome is that - he drives two and a half hours to go to church!
I went to the Kappa Alpha Sigma banquet last night. It was so much fun. So I guess the devil and temptation over took me last night and I had a few drinks. According to Katy, it was more than a few. However, I was fine and I didn't get too drunk. At least I felt that way. I think I am going to pledge for them next semester, they seem like a great group!
I don't know if drinking is really a temptation for me. It's not like I feel the need to drink every weekend. I really don't feel the need to drink at all. For me, drinking is more about relaxing and socializing than anything at this point. And I don't drink (anymore) to fill the emptiness inside me, because only God can do that. I'll have to look up the definition of temptation in a dictionary. It was fun though. But does God want us to have fun? Or is life more about how hard you have to struggle to get what you want?
I went out to the 'M' today to read my Bible. I guess God was saying to me that I should repent after last night, and get back to learning and obeying Him. I was trying to find what the Bible said about drinking, and I couldn't find anything specific. Proverbs has a good line in their somewhere about drinking and being stupid, but I am not sure where it is. Maybe it's just about drinking to fill the hole inside, I don't know. I will do some more investigation on that...
Dictionary.com says this :
(1.) Trial; a being put to the test. Thus God "tempted [Gen. 22: 1; R.V., 'did
prove'] Abraham;" and afflictions are said to tempt, i.e., to try, men (James
1:2, 12; comp. Deut. 8:2), putting their faith and patience to the test.
(2.) Ordinarily, however, the word means solicitation to that which is evil, and
hence Satan is called "the tempter" (Matt. 4:3). Our Lord was in this way
tempted in the wilderness. That temptation was not internal, but by a real,
active, subtle being. It was not self-sought. It was submitted to as an act of
obedience on his part. "Christ was led, driven. An unseen personal force bore
him a certain violence is implied in the words" (Matt. 4:1-11). The scene of
the temptation of our Lord is generally supposed to have been the mountain of
Quarantania (q.v.), "a high and precipitous wall of rock, 1,200 or 1,500 feet
above the plain west of Jordan, near Jericho." Temptation is common to all
(Dan. 12:10; Zech. 13:9; Ps. 66:10; Luke 22:31, 40; Heb. 11:17; James 1:12; 1
Pet. 1:7; 4:12). We read of the temptation of Joseph (Gen. 39), of David (2
Sam. 24; 1 Chr. 21), of Hezekiah (2 Chr. 32:31), of Daniel (Dan. 6), etc. So
long as we are in this world we are exposed to temptations, and need ever to be
on our watch against them.