Sit Down!

So today we are having our first rain! Its actually kind of fun, the air is finally clearing all the smoke from the fires and hopefully this can help contain them. But that is not the nature for me writing this blog....

We just finished one of the more intense weeks of my life and between the extended solo time at wildwood, writing my week-in-review, and class with Bob Phillips this morning I have done a lot of thinking. The past few years I have really come to a better knowledge of who Jesus is and what it means to be a follower. But knowledge is not what makes a change in someones life. Its trust and faith. To put it simple, its like putting a chair in the middle of the room and looking at it and studying it, then saying you believe it will hold you up... but until you actually sit in it you don't really believe. You haven't had faith and trust that it will hold you up. And I guess God has been pressing on my heart this week that it is time that I sit down. I don't know what it will look like to let Jesus take the reigns on my entire life, but with me holding them its just steering me in a million different directions. Its hard to write this because my pride wants to let everyone think that I was already sitting in the chair. But the truth is I wasn't. However God has been sooo patient with me, and His grace and love abounds more and more every minute. I am stoked to let the God of the universe take control... I mean he did create everything, and I suppose He knows a little more than me ;).

I guess the other part of this blog, would be to challenge you to examine yourself and see if you have "sat down"... OR if you, like me, need to know Jesus in your heart rather than just in your mind....