10 days.

oh fridays

i dont normally have class on friday but this morning i had to go meet with my professor from the satellite class because she was going to be on our campus and wanted to introduce herself in person to all of us..

so i was up unusually early for a friday

(sidenote*-she remembered my voicemail greeting which is astounding not just because for someone you have never met to remember your voicemail greeting is awesome but also because she decided to share with the entire class plus the 2 classes from the other 2 satellite campuses about how funny she thought it was...can we just say highlight of my friday?!)

i did something i dont normally do...i checked my facebook first thing...i noticed that my friend abi pratt was online...this isnt unusal except yes it is because she is serving for a year overseas on a cruise ship doing ministry (jealous much? absolutely!) anyways...so i started facebook chatting with her for a few moments which was nice just because its always good to catch up, if even for a moment, with someone you love alot...about 5 minutes into this little cherade a thought occured:

what if this wasnt really abi?

what a silly thought huh?!

what if this person i was telling that i missed and loved and sharing things that only she and i understand wasnt really her at all....how did i know it really was anyway?!

this question of faith was spurred...

i click on a certain song in my itunes every morning and have an unbelievable faith that it will play...i mean if i click on the beatles and chris tomlin starts playing...thats confusing and annoying...and hasnt ever happened...and why would it? it isnt what i believe will happen...

i order a coke and burger from wendys and have complete faith that (97% of the time at least) that is exactly what im getting

i turn on the air conditioning in my car and expect the air to be cold it would be not good if the heat then came on

i go over to foundation 349/350 and expect that some combination of kathleen emmaly sarah and maggie will be there...it would be very odd and disappointing if i found some random boys who i dont know

you get the idea right?

i started thinking about all the tons of things that i do everyday that require faith on my part

and the whole reason i have faith in those things is because past experience has built a trust in each situation for me that whatever is supposed to happen with each of those events will happen because ive seen it happen before

but when it comes to God...He says if i have the faith of a mustard seed i can move mountains...and then all of a sudden, things get blurry

because we cant see God

what?!

thats insane!

the God of the universe...the Creator of all things...the Savior of the free world...the Father of man...The Way, The Truth, The Life...The One who has NEVER let me down....NEVER forsaken me...NEVER left my side...NEVER broken even a portion of His promises....the One who wakes me each morning and puts me to sleep each night...

says He has put His POWER INTO ME....He has given me His STRENGTH...He has given me the ability to move mountains....

i have the POWER of CHRIST IN ME...

and all of a sudden i cant handle that because i cant see Him?!

WHAT THE CRAP?!?!?!?! (can i say that?)

what in the world would change in my life...both day to day and in the bigger picture...if i lived acting out the faith in God that i apparently have in every other aspect of my life?!

what in the world would change about yours?

now of course i fully believe that it was indeed abi that i was talking to this morning...but i am now going to have to seriously look at and then re-evaluate the amount of faith im puting into trivial things such as my order at wendys if from now on i can not remember to try and live with the same amount (actually more) in my God...


on that note

enjoy your friday


and

rev daddy: i dont understand greek lessons left in comments on blogs...those apparently dont fit my learning style...but thanks for trying