What has God done for you?

My mom always told me to me to ask the teacher for help instead of my classmates. She told me the teacher knew more than the students, and that’s true. My classmates only knew as much as I do, yet I still ask them instead of teachers. You might find this pretty foolish, yet so many of us do this. 

Stop trusting in mere humans, who but a breath in their nostrils. Why hold them in esteem?

Isaiah 2:22

Why do we hold people’s opinions, words, thoughts of us over God’s? Why do we ask for people’s opinions instead of God’s truth? We are so sucked into how we look, what others think of us, that we forget they are so small and tiny compared to God.

Comparing what we say to God’s is like comparing a new born baby babbling over a man who has lived for ages and has seen many things. Yet we choose the babbling.

I still struggle with this greatly. I choose what others think of me over what God thinks of me many many times. But the truth is, God created me, everything is placed by him. Each part created has a specific purpose, to glorify God.

When walking, I glorify God. My legs were made to walk.

When I speak, I glorify God. My mouth was made for me to speak.

When I blink, and see the things around me, I glorify God. My eyes were made to view God’s beautiful creation, and enjoy them.

We were made for God’s glory! Don’t let mere humans tell you who you are, they didn’t create you. But God did, and who else can do what our God can do!  

As the year of my freshman year is coming to a close, I can’t help but remember the first day of being here at Biola. I remember being super intimidated by everybody. Everybody was so freaking tall, and I was a midget here. (Still am…) 

I also remember meeting people, and wondering if I would ever be able to become friends with them. I remember questioning God on why he brought me to this place, when I felt like I didn’t fit in. 

I remember God’s promise that he would provide me with friends when I felt lonely and alone. 

I really learned a lot this year, it’s crazy how God works sometimes. It’s funny that a year ago, I was stressing about whether or not where I was going for college. How God brought me into this school. When I go home, I feel like Biola was a dream. That I’ve been sleeping the entire time. But it’s real. 

Sometimes I forget that it wasn’t me who got myself into Biola, but it was by God’s GRACE that brought me here. I really love this place here. Great people, Great friends, Great everything! 

I’m really going to be sad when I come back next year, and all the upperclassmen are gone. I’m really going to miss them all…

But as God takes, he also gives! I’m sure God will bring in some awesome underclassmen for next year!

 I can’t believe this year passed by so fast, but it’s been a great year! I’m really glad God brought me to this place. 

God know’s me the best, better than I know myself! Praise the Lord! 

There’s this guy who lives on the streets, owns nothing, no job, no house, no nothing. Everyday, he sits on the streets, wondering what he’s going to do, when one day, a man comes up to him and proposes a trade. He offers to trade his mansion for his house filled with 100 butlers and maids, his 3 story garage filled with expensive cars, his job that pays 1,000,000 dollars per day, and a cool pet all for him to own. All he has to do is give up what he has. But instead of accepting, he declines, and continues to do what he was doing before.

Before you go off and think he’s an idiot, replace those “he’s” with the word “you”. Now, before you go off even more and say of course I would accept that deal, now replace the word “man” with “Jesus”. 

God want’s to bless us. He has all these great treasures in store for us, and all we have to do is give up the things we own. Rags for Riches. 

Now we all have excuses. I have too much homework, I don’t have enough time, it’s boring. Give up homework to God, and He’ll give you back straight A’s, He know’s everything. Give up your time, and He’ll give you back all the time in the world, He’s the creator of time. Give up your lack of interest to God, and He’ll show you the real meaning of fun, He invented fun. 

See the big picture. Don’t see the now, but the later! It might be hard right now seeking Him, looking for something you’ve never seen before. I know, I struggle with it too. But just imagine, the day when you find what you’ve been searching for. When you see his glory, when you see how much He really wants to bless you! 

Give it up to God, and in turn, God will give it back to you 100 fold. 

So I recently wrote this paper on Micah 6, and it was talking about Israel. While I was writing it, one of the verses stood out to me. 

Micah 6:6-7

With what shall I come to the LORD and bow down before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?

Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands rivers of olive oil? Shall I offer my firstborn transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

The Israelite’s offered God lots of things. They sacrificed lots of things, the more the better! But what they failed to realize was, God doesn’t care about the most, but the quality. 

It’s just like us with our daily lives. When we pray to God or read his word, do we set a goal for ourselves? Do we say, I’m going to pray for 30 mins today, and read his word for an hour? 

God doesn’t care how long you read or pray, he doesn’t want that. What he wants instead is quality time. God prefers to have genuine time, where you don’t worry about whether or not your spending enough time. 

It’s like with friends. Would you like to hang out with somebody who counts how long they want to hang out with you? Course not! That’s not how it works. 

Just like that, God wants to be our friend. He wants a genuine relationship with us! We need to stop treating him like an obligation, and start treating him more like a friend, a lover, our everything. 

God wants to be our friend. Think about it, how incredible is that? The creator of one of the billion of universes He created, chose us, and said, I want you. How incredible is that? 

I had a vision a while ago, back in senior year. For some reason, I never put it up..

In my vision, I say myself, with my old hairstyle, glasses on, and I was in a dark room studying with a lamp. 

All of a sudden, the scene shifts to a bright lit auditorium, and I see people cheering from the seats. Then I see myself, in a suit, with my old hairstyle, and glasses on, and I’m preaching to them. 

The vision then ends there. 

Help me give it all up to you. Help me forget about her. Help me focus on you. The work is too much. Please take it all. I’m losing all hope. Please be my hope. 

It’s so hard to trust you right now..

I need you God. Please help me. 

My friend got a new phone today! She had this really ghetto phone with no camera, model isn’t even made anymore, for 3 years! And today, she got the Samsung Solstice! 

To be honest, it’s not the best of the best phones compared to what others have. But the way she reacted, it was incredible. She was so thankful for it, she was at the point of tears. 

While opening the box and everything, she recorded herself, and had to stop multiple times to stop the tears from falling. 

I had a similar phone to it just last year. I was excited too, but I quickly got bored of it within 2 days. 

Now I have a new phone, which I recently got over winter break. I now again want a new phone…

Just how selfish can I get? I recently watched the Kony video too, so many people have it worse out there, and I want a new phone. I want school to be over. I want to live a happy life. I want to get married. I want this, I want that, Me, Me, Me, ME! 

There are so many people that are grateful for the little things they have, some don’t even have anything, and yet they are grateful. 

I am so consumed with this world, it ain’t even funny. I really need to get my head out of the earth, and into the clouds. I need to go back to my first love, I really do. 

Please continue to pray for me, this journey is a hard one…

I slept in today, and missed out on lunch, and I couldn’t eat until 7:20 Pm later that day…

Failed my English quiz again…

Didn’t know I had a math exam today..took it anyway…hopefully I got a C…

Even though today wasn’t the best of the best, I got to remember that God is in control. He doesn’t make bad days, but only good days! God is still good no matter how bad my day’s will be! 

So, praise the Lord! Thank you for waking me up! Thank you for the air I breathe! Thank you for leading me into the desert, where I can rely more on you! Thank you for everything you’ve done for me! Thank you for loving me, even when I don’t deserve it! Thank you Lord! 

Many of us judge others based on the way they look, the way they act, the clothes they wear, basically everything. 

We even judge ourselves, based on the clothes we wear, the way we talk, even having a pimple on our face can really ruin our day. 

But if you think about it, what gives us the right to judge at all? What gives us the right to even judge ourselves? 

1 Corinthians 4:3-4 

“I care very little if I am judged by you or by any human court; indeed, I do not even judge myself. My conscience is clear, but that does not make me innocent. It is the Lord who judges me.”

In the verse, Paul not only doesn’t care about what others think about him, but he doesn’t even judge himself! His identity doesn’t lie within what others think of him, but what God thinks of him. 

I know how it feels to be insecure about yourself. It’s painful to see how you look in the mirror everyday, you wish you looked like that person, or perhaps its best if you never even existed. Nobody really cares about what you have to say or who you really are. 

But lets face the truth, the real cold hard truth. 

God didn’t make you that way. He didn’t create something worthless or ugly, he doesn’t create bad things. 

If you think judging others is wrong, then what gives you the right to judge yourself? Stop judging yourself, and start loving yourself! God didn’t create us to judge and condemn ourselves or others, but for us to glorify God! 

Think about it, when you judge yourself or others, are you glorifying God? 

Don’t be consumed with the World, but be consumed with God!