What? I'm not broken? Why do I need to surrender?

This Wednesday at Youth Group, we often sing this one song that gets seriously over looked in how powerful it is.
It is the Jeremy Camp song aptly named Sweetly Broken.
And it is such a powerful song. When I'm singing it, I have to do a double take so I can pay attention to the power in these words.

At the cross, you beckon me
Draw me gently, to my knees and I am,
lost for words, so lost in love, I'm sweetly broken,
Wholly surrendered.

Are those not powerful words? Just right there, in the chorus. And yet, how often do i just sing these words, because everyone else is singing them, and not singing them from my heart.

So I began to ponder why it is so important to be sweetly broken and wholly surrendered.

Pride is one of the most prevalent sins in all of human history. It has brought tyrant's empires crumbling down, many men in the Bible, as well as bring down Lucifer from heaven as well as one third of the angels.

But by only asking for God's help, can we overcome this. That's why its important

Thoughts for the servant

So I have been thinking.

I spent all of yesterday afternoon helping out at the Pelt's new house, and helping them move in. And on the ride home, a certain verse popped into my head along with another. It was John 12:8 and James 1:27.
"You will always have the poor among you, but you will not always have me."
"Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world."

But it got me to thinking, because I remember a related verse where it says we are to care for the orphans and the poor. This got me thinking about all that had happened that day and how we are called to help those previously mentioned. But if we are called to do this, and by doing this, the love that God pours out unto us being poured unto them, how much more should we care for those in our body?

What we did for the Pelts is exactly what I felt we should have done. The response was heartening and uplifting. But disaster strikes everyone of us, does it not? It strikes in the form of sin. It causes us to stumble every day, and hinders from being as close to God as we all should truly desire. So shouldn't we not only gather for those kinds of situations, but also just to uplift one another?
Should not being an encouragement and there for you brothers and sisters cause such a reaction?

Since we are not at our final destination, and we should be the poor in spirit and be humble, I feel we should rush to each others aide in those times as well.

New changes and Fences! I mean Fencing!

Well it has been awhile since I've blogged. But I felt I should. I now have a super awesome new background, thanks to the coolest Kristen I know!
My sister!
And other things have been up and about!

I was recently able to go to the Pillar Youth Group (also known as Ten Fold Youth Ministries) game night. IT WAS A BLAST! I got to see a lot of good friends that I hadn't seen in a while, I got to play Guitar Hero World Tour finally, and most of all, have fun.

And many things have happened over this holiday season.

Like Christmas. And this is the time of the show where I list what I got.
And I gotta say, I'm impressed.

I got a pair of How the Grinch Stole Christmas Boxers, an Ohio State University Hoodie, a Union University hoodie, an I ♥ UU T-Shirt, a new kickin pair of jeans, Mario Kart Wii, a Chic-Fil-A calender and socks.
Man I love those socks.

I also have been conditioning myself for some more Fencing Tournaments that are coming up. The plan for me is to try and attend the OSU fencing camp this summer, but you need a whole year of competitive fencing under your belt before you can even apply!
So that is my story

May this year, continue!