"There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing, a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace. What do workers gain from their toil? I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. {He has made everything beautiful in its time.} He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God. I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it."
-Ecclesiastes 3:1-14

Monday, March 12, 2012

Graduation Countdown//Life Decisions

I was in my Marriage and Family class this past week, when our professor, Dr. Ernie Baker, told us to read the Danvers Statement on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood.

A particular part of the statement stood out to me:


["With half of the world's population outside the reach of indigenous evangelism; with countless other lost people in those societies... that have heard the gospel; with the stresses and miseries of sickness, malnutrition, homelessness, illiteracy, ignorance, aging, addiction, crime, incarceration, neuroses, and loneliness, no man or woman who feels a passion from God to make His grace known in word and deed need ever live without a fulfilling ministry for the glory of Christ and the good of this fallen world (1 Cor. 12:7-21)"].


With graduation almost exactly two months away, I have been thinking a lot about who I want to be and what I want to live for.

The future stretches vastly out before me, and I know that the legacy and impact that I will leave behind, will largely be determined by the decisions I make today.

Spring 2012 prayer: I pray that I will know the Lord's will, live for Him, and that my life will contribute to the advancement of the kingdom.

Lead me O Lord, in your righteousness.
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