I’m embarrassed to admit...

I’m embarrassed to admit that at one point of hosting this page, I was worried about posting Bible verses daily in the stories portion of Instagram. I thought I might be annoying part of my tribe... Then I realized how bizarre that sounded. My focus should always be on God. If I claim to be a Christian and to be living my life pursuing Christ, then I shouldn’t shy away from sharing my faith, even publicly. “You can’t say God is silent if your Bible is closed.” Sometimes I start to follow my own voice in life, and it gets louder than God’s. That usually happens because I haven’t been reading my Bible enough. I get caught up in myself and my own selfish desires. Life becomes more about what I want to say. What MY message is, and what I want people to know, or how I want to inspire people. But then I stop and laugh at my silly self and remember I am so young and quite frankly being rather shallow to think so much of myself. How silly to think I might have all (or any) of the answers. Then I remind myself to go back to the drawing board and try to start again in humility. I have to constantly train myself to get into the well of REAL truth, inspiration, and instruction. Only from the Bible and prayer can I find the guidance for how to say things worth saying, do things worth doing, and to live a life worth living.

In Jeremiah 17:7-8 it says: “Blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him. They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.” The truth is, I am human and flawed. But I know that to pursue the purpose of life, I must daily dive into the word of God and continue growing. I don’t want to go through life trying to produce my own fruits, glorifying myself and my own vain ideas. More than anything else in the world, I want to bear the fruits of the Spirit. At the end of my life, I want to have lived and died for my God. Not for my own achievement, not sports or media, not even for politics. Nothing matters more.