Sinking Sand, and Christ the Rock

One of my favorite movies is The Second Chance. One of the themes in the movie addresses comfort zones and stuff. One song played is one of my favorites. Here are the lyrics

My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus’ blood and righteousness.
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly trust in Jesus’ Name.

On Christ the solid Rock I stand,
All other ground is sinking sand;
All other ground is sinking sand.

Sinking Sand

What is sinking sand? Where is it? One think suggested in the movie and I agree with is that comfort is sinking sand. I don't know about you but I sure like my comfort zone and a step out of it is...no bueno. But my comfort zone is my sinking sand.

Christ the Rock

Christ is the solid rock. Anyway not on Christ is sinking sand.

Well I guess I don't have too much to say. But I just wanted to get that out there. I encourage you to think about what your sinking sand is. Comment any responses and comments.

Before I finish I'm going to add lyrics to another song from the movie. And I encourage everyone to watch the movie. Michael W. Smith - All In The Serve

Never gave you nothing
people couldn't explain a way
Never gave you nothing without
Something to gain never could slow down
Enough to study your face but now i
Wanna know your name

Chorus: Hold my feet to the fire
Till I'm breaking a sweat
Till I'll never forget your call
Keep me in line
Give me the nerve
Here it's all in the serve

Locked in the diamond lane
I keep driving past it
Better to be safe
Than learn what your a bout
Give me another chance to go where
You're going now
I’m here to walk it out
I’m here to walk it out
I’m here to walk it out

Chorus: (2x’s)

It’s all in the serve
It’s all in the serve
Here it’s all in the serve

Impacting Lives

First off if you haven't read the post before this I think it's really good and you should read it. (and I spent a lot of time on it) Secondly I know that I changed the colors again but I like the way it is now.

Now I get to the topic of Impacting Lives.

Today is Valentine's Day. As many of you know. And yesterday at my school a lot of people gave out Valentine presents, cards, etc. She gave me a note that is very special to me now. Before I explain the note I have to explain the story.

I have had the same group of friends at school since 8th grade (except one girl who moved and now my friends' boyfriends eat with us. But I guess they don't count) One girl when she moved here she was really quiet but we started becoming friends. In 9th grade was when we really became good friends. One day in class she said something about how God didn't like her. Well me and another one of my friends took special interest in her I guess you could say. After a little while she started going to church with one of my friends and really liked it. She had been going for a little while, I'm not sure how long but we were talking in some free time in class. She told me that she really liked it but they got homework and she couldn't understand what the Bible they had at her house said because It was KJV. (Which is a version I like because of it's beautiful language but it can be extremely confusing.) After she said that I prayed and God told me that I should get her a Bible that's easy to understand. I told my mom that we needed to go to Mardel and to buy my friends a Bible. We had some at home but they were only New Testament. So we went to Mardel and if you have been there it can take you forever to buy a Bible. But I found one that was really nice, easy to read, and I could afford it. We went and got her name engraved. At my 15th birthday party we were hanging out and I took her aside and handed her the Bible that I had bought and gave it to her. At first she said that she felt bad that I was giving her a gift at my birthday party but then I could see the joy in her face and how thankful she was. I got to watch her grow and grow. I even visited their Church a few times and saw how much she was growing. Then one day I got a text message from the friend that she goes to Church with saying that she had been baptised that morning. I was so happy. I have seen her grow since and I see a change in her life. She really is an amazing friend.

Back to what happened yesterday. I got a note from her with the card and M&M's she gave me for Valentines Day. At first it seemed like any other Valentine's Day note. But then I got half way through and nearly cried. She stared off staying that she was glad that I was her friend and wanted to thank me for the Bible I had given her. (a year ago next month) Then she went on to say how me and my other friend were the ones that helped start her relationship with God and how she could never express how thankful she is about that. She said that the Bible I gave her was the best gift she had ever received from a friend. She closed the letter saying again that she is glad we are friends.

That nearly made me cry. (I would of but I was at school and didn't want people to ask what was wrong with me) But it opened my eyes. I did something so little to me. Buying her a Bible was no big deal for me. But for her it was huge. Sure I was glad I did it. But I didn't realize that it would have impacted her like that. I was thinking that I should have done more. (and I probably should of) But God used me and my friend who help her come to Christ. It a really humbling feeling and a good feeling to know that you did something good. And who knows she may bring someone else to Christ. Maybe several people. She has a great personality and loves helping people and I believe that she can do great things.

That was really cool for me. A lot of people probably have cooler stories than that. But that's mine. She has come so far in the past year.

With that said. Everyone has a chance to impact someone else. I'm pretty sure most people have before. I wrote a paper for school once about how someone can impact your life. There are positive and negative ways but God can turn negative in to positive. My friend said once how some bad things that happened to her as a kid turned out to make her a better person.

I really don't have anything else to say. Just that even something small and impact a person so much. If you do something small for God, He will do the rest. We didn't really do that much besides bring her to church and give her a Bible that she could understand. God did the rest. He just used us. It's a great feeling to know that God used you to do something wonderful. But God did most of it. I feel like in this post I may have been giving glory to me. But I didn't do anything great. God did. God brought a child of His to Him. We just helped him a long the way. If we didn't do what God wanted us to do my friend may never have come to know God. But I did hardly anything. God did it all.


Leviticus 9:6

Moses said, "This is the thing which the LORD has commanded you to do, that the glory of the LORD may appear to you."



Numbers 14:21

but indeed, as I live, all the earth will be filled with the glory of the LORD



1 Chronicles 16:29

Ascribe to the LORD the glory due His name;



Psalm 29:2

Give unto the LORD the glory due to His name; Worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.

"Do the right thing....Come what may."

I didn't mean to make this so long but please find sometime to read it and hopefully it will bless you.

"Do the right thing."

I recently watched a movie called Come What May. I mentioned it in an earlier post. If you want to you can watch it on tangle.com formerly known as GodTube.

One of the themes in the movie (I guess the main one) is "Do the right thing...come what may." I never realized how true that was until recently. Sometimes you have to do some things that aren't easy and the contradict what everyone else says or think. These ways are usually easy ways out. That's why doing the popular thing is what a lot of people do. (I want to say most though) Everyone wants to be liked. It's human nature. No one wakes up and says "I want someone to hate me today." That would be crazy. People dress nicely, spend hours on their hair/ makeup (hopefully only girls) and act how the "popular" people act. I go to public school so we definitely have those. I'm sure they are in private schools to and they are in my youth group too (but not as much) I remember wanting to be popular so bad in intermediate school (because it really mattered back then) My friends were the popular ones. I never did become popular (aside:now the people who were my friends get all these rumors made up about them and they all hate each other even though they act like they are friends) So now I'm thankful I wasn't ever "popular." God knew what was really best for me.

Anyway doing the right thing isn't always easy because it isn't always the popular thing. It make be hard sometimes like not going to see a movie that all your friends are seeing or not wearing a certain outfit. It sometimes gets even harder when you have to stand up against your friends in order to do the right thing. I have personally heard this example who know how many times and I'm sure you have to but if you are reading this you have to hear it again.

Say there is a less liked kid in your class. You probably know someone like this unless you live in a box or something. A little different, made fun of often, ignored often. You know. Sometimes these kids get made fun of. Maybe you don't really like the person either. Do you join in? Do you stay out? The easiest thing is to just join in. The harder but still easy way is to stay out but still not say anything. The hardest but right thing to to stand up for the kid. There was a girl in my youth group who to be honest, sometimes got on every one's nerves. One trip all my friends go placed in the same room but I got placed with her. At first it made me really mad. But I got to know her. I talked to her and was nice to her (even though at times it was hard) But she had her moments when she said something really smart or she was fun to be around. In a lesson at church one time we wrote down our role models/people who we admired. They gave us the option to say ours aloud if we wanted to. Me I didn't want to. I was really shy back then (I'm still shy but so as much as I was then) so I opted out of that and sat and listened. I heard my name and it came from the girl. I was shocked. I didn't think that I did anything good or anything. There were times when I did mistreat her and I feel so bad about that. But I treated her the best out of anyone else in our youth. Sometimes she would say something and the older high school boys (I was in middle school at the time) would say some stupid comment about it. I got really, really mad. She is a precious creation of God and God loves her so why should I not? Maybe she's different than the "normal" people. (Even though there is no such thing as normal) God made her the way He wanted to. I love and miss her. Unfortunately she stopped attending youth. I don't blame her at all the way that the majority of the youth group treated her. I pray that she'll walk in to the youth room some day so I can hug her and tell her how much I've missed her.

I made a lot of mistakes in that situation. I sometimes did the right thing but sometimes the easy and popular thing seemed so much easier.

"Come what may"

"Come what may" That doesn't sound too nice and happy. That sounds to me like there may be some hard things that may happen with doing what's right. You may lose some friends. You may get made fun of. But even though it may seem like what happened because you did the right thing wasn't worth it. It's always the best decision to do the right thing. No matter what comes.

Recently (as in today) I had to remind myself that doing the right thing was worth it. No matter what happened. My mom works at my school which is such a blessing to me. She knows all the teachers, substitute teachers and most of the students. We have a rule in my school. I don't care if it's stupid and people don't agree with it. It is a rule and I think that it should be followed. (I'm not going to go into details) Well the substitute let the students break this rule knowing full well that this rule shouldn't be broken. It personally bugged me. Call me a tattle tale but I told on the sub. I talked to my mom and she agreed that this was a rule that shouldn't be broken so she told the sub that she shouldn't have done that and not to do it again. I get to class today and she is saying all this stuff about how someone told so they can't get out the cell phones. So there is this talk for the whole class period (maybe not but most of it) that was "I can't believe someone would tell. This is so stupid. Who would do that? It was probably ______" All that stuff. Surprisingly no one suspected that it was me. That was good. But there was some no so nice stuff said about me. Even though it wasn't. At first I was like. "Why did I tell? If they found out it was me I'm going to get beat up." But then I thought "Do the right thing...come what may." I wrote it on my notes and just went on with my life ignoring the comments.

That was a very minor example of what could happen after doing the right thing. It was worth it for me to tell. It really isn't a big deal. I ended up laugh at the situation how pathetic people were because they couldn't do something. But it was worth it and I would do it again.

Does anyone else have any "Do the right thing...Come what may" experiences? I think this is an important rule to live by. I am not artistic so I asked one of my my artistic friends to make me a sign that says "Do the right thing...Come what may." It may be hard but it's always worth doing the right thing.

Philippians 4:8 (New American Standard Bible)
Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things.



I'm sorry I didn't mean to make it this long.