i have been doing homework... all day. well... figuratively speaking.
bud and i actually got out of bed today and went to church! not only did we go to church, but we made it just in time for the beginning of the service! we even left late. hooray for church starting late today. i just don't get why we don't prioritize going to church, we always feel the joy of the Lord while being in the sweet fellowship of the body. well... let me rephrase that. its not that we don't prioritize going to church, its that we utterly fail at waking up on time. i do think some of it has to do with the fact that our bedroom is like a cave. it stays dark unless for some reason the animals wedge our door open further than we leave it at night, and even then, it doesn't make that much of a difference as our entire apartment is not very conducive to natural light. these are just excuses for our failure really... but i thought i'd give you an idea of what our apartment is like. i love it! it has a kitchen! that is huge for me. i've been cooking so much more now... its been so fun. so back on topic - we suck at getting out of bed on sunday mornings and going to church. its never a burden to go... we have just been lazy and it really needs to stop.
today in church we talked about blame shifting and how that is apart of our old nature, how we can never say we are tempted by God because that in itself is blame shifting. when we are regenerated, we have to repent of our ways, not shift the blame to someone or something else. (like i was doing about the lack of light in our apartment... that is not a good reason to miss church! its because i'm being lazy!) we looked at the utter failure of king saul when he did not destroy all of the amalekites, including the king and the best of their livestock. while he did bring ruin to the amalekites, he did not kill the king or the livestock and when confronted, he shifted blame to the soldiers and people sent to destroy them. he said they took it to "sacrifice it to the Lord." you might think thats a good excuse... however its still sin. "Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams." - 1 Samuel 15:22 - that kind of settles "excuses". we may say that we are doing things for the Lord all the while, we're ignoring what God has asked of us. thats the gist of what we talked about at church today. it was really good.
so then we had a great time of fellowship at the fellowship lunch put on by our church. we sat with our friends ken and debbie and their little ones, lisa and joel. they are such a lovely family and i'm so blessed that they have taken us in as friends. we are going to have an italian feast together on wednesday! i'm so very excited about it!
then i came home and did homework, the remainder of the day. and that is not an exaggeration. i am proud of myself for not putting it off until tomorrow... kind of wish i would have done this earlier, but at least now i have some thoughts to help me with my final paper. wish me luck on getting that done. now it is super late and technically i am late for writing up this blog. but oh well... time for bed. so tired. ready to be in bed, cuddled up to my loving husband, not staring at a computer screen with words about illegal immigration strewn across it. goodnight to you all. looooove.
bud and i actually got out of bed today and went to church! not only did we go to church, but we made it just in time for the beginning of the service! we even left late. hooray for church starting late today. i just don't get why we don't prioritize going to church, we always feel the joy of the Lord while being in the sweet fellowship of the body. well... let me rephrase that. its not that we don't prioritize going to church, its that we utterly fail at waking up on time. i do think some of it has to do with the fact that our bedroom is like a cave. it stays dark unless for some reason the animals wedge our door open further than we leave it at night, and even then, it doesn't make that much of a difference as our entire apartment is not very conducive to natural light. these are just excuses for our failure really... but i thought i'd give you an idea of what our apartment is like. i love it! it has a kitchen! that is huge for me. i've been cooking so much more now... its been so fun. so back on topic - we suck at getting out of bed on sunday mornings and going to church. its never a burden to go... we have just been lazy and it really needs to stop.
today in church we talked about blame shifting and how that is apart of our old nature, how we can never say we are tempted by God because that in itself is blame shifting. when we are regenerated, we have to repent of our ways, not shift the blame to someone or something else. (like i was doing about the lack of light in our apartment... that is not a good reason to miss church! its because i'm being lazy!) we looked at the utter failure of king saul when he did not destroy all of the amalekites, including the king and the best of their livestock. while he did bring ruin to the amalekites, he did not kill the king or the livestock and when confronted, he shifted blame to the soldiers and people sent to destroy them. he said they took it to "sacrifice it to the Lord." you might think thats a good excuse... however its still sin. "Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams." - 1 Samuel 15:22 - that kind of settles "excuses". we may say that we are doing things for the Lord all the while, we're ignoring what God has asked of us. thats the gist of what we talked about at church today. it was really good.
so then we had a great time of fellowship at the fellowship lunch put on by our church. we sat with our friends ken and debbie and their little ones, lisa and joel. they are such a lovely family and i'm so blessed that they have taken us in as friends. we are going to have an italian feast together on wednesday! i'm so very excited about it!
then i came home and did homework, the remainder of the day. and that is not an exaggeration. i am proud of myself for not putting it off until tomorrow... kind of wish i would have done this earlier, but at least now i have some thoughts to help me with my final paper. wish me luck on getting that done. now it is super late and technically i am late for writing up this blog. but oh well... time for bed. so tired. ready to be in bed, cuddled up to my loving husband, not staring at a computer screen with words about illegal immigration strewn across it. goodnight to you all. looooove.
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