back to school

in the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires.
you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.

- Romans 6:11-12,18

i am dead to sin. and i have become a slave to righteousness.

to me, thats one of the greatest gifts that i can give my God. second only to actually giving my life for Him, which i hope i have the priveledge of doing one day.

started back to school this week, and i think its going to be alright. its different, being back on the quarter system and all. i have to get used to sitting in a class for two hours at a time again.

i'll be okay.

tuesday was the first day. my marketing teacher let us out of class after about 45 minutes. i had an hour to kill before my next class started, so i sat in the hallway and read my bible.

this asian woman came up to me and asked me to watch her books for her while she went to the restroom. i told her that i would.

she noticed that i was reading and asked me what it was. the first thing that came to my mind was that her being asian, she may not have even heard of Jesus.

i told her that it was the bible. she saw all of my notes and all of the things that i was underlining and asked me if i was a missionary. maybe the only thing she knows about christians is that they are missionaries.

i told her that i wasnt a missionary, that i was just reading it for my personal use. then she asked me where i went to church. i told her and she told me that she knows someone that went to my high school. it turns out that i know her too.

she asked me what my name was and told me hers and told me that it was nice to meet me. i thought she said that her name was asoon. then she went to the restroom.

when she came back i was still reading and underlining. this time she asked me if i was going to be a pastor. obviously she knows a little about christianity. i told her that i hope to be one day. she told me something like i would be good because i have all of those notes. well, little does she know that of the 66 books in the bible, only about 1.5 of them in my bible have notes in them.

by now, it was time for class to start. so we went into the classroom. i didnt sit by her and i didnt talk to her after class.

i feel this leading of God for me to witness to her. in my prayer journal i asked God to give me the words to say to her.

this quarter is only ten weeks, so i dont have very long. if you believe, then pray for me. i need it.

i went to kindred one day this week on my lunch break to buy a prayer journal. the lady at the register asked me if i was a preacher. i was a little shocked and amused but told her no. i asked her why and she said that i just looked like a preacher to her. that in itself is just funny to me, because i dont think i look anything like a preacher.

so i go throughout the rest of the day with this big head about me. i tell all my friends the story and feeling pretty proud about it.

later that afternoon, i talked to a guy on the phone that i work with from north carolina. i've basically talked to him on the phone for about two years. and i have met him a couple of times at our yearly sales meetings. he's not exactly what i would call a moral person to say the least.

i had gotten him on the phone twice that day so i said something like, 'oh it must be my lucky day. if i were a gambling man, i might go down to the dog track tonight.' he asked me why i didnt gamble. i told him that it was against my religion.

he thought i was being sarcastic. he went on to tell me that he had no idea that i was a christian.

he said that he knew that i went to church and stuff, but he didnt know that i was devout.

ouch.

how about that for a reality check?

it took me a couple of days later to realize this, but God gave me a sermon out of this.

its going to be about how we can look all nice and firm in our faith to people who dont know us, but what do the people who knows us really think?

pretty cool, huh? yeah, God rocks like that.

anyway.

im on a computer at kindred right now. so, i think i am going to go look around some more.

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