you can tell when i need to be studying...

...by how often i blog. see, i pretty much have to be on the computer any time i study. so many notes, readings, study guides, practice quizzes, etc. are on the computer. well, i don't like to study. it's very hard for me to stay focused, and therefore, i spend a lot of time on blogs, on facebook, etc. so, here i am posting a blog. but, i have memorized all my flashcards so i feel like it is a good time for a break before i begin my practice quizzes.

i read some rich stuff this morning in my quiet time. i want to share.

"For if I rebuild what I have once destroyed, I prove myself to be a transgressor. For through the law I died to the law so that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the son of God, who loved me and gave himself up for me." - Galatians 2:18-20

"My individuality remains, but my primary motivation for living and the nature that rules me are radically changed. I have the same human body, but the old satanic right to myself has been destroyed... This faith was not Paul's own faith in Jesus Christ, but the faith the son of God had given to him. It is no longer a faith in faith, but a faith that transcends all imaginable limits- a faith that only comes from the Son of God." - Oswald Chambers

and, i could practically name this the Jon Foreman blog. here is the song i am currently adoring. he is just so honest. i love it. honesty - one of my favorite things in life. however, i'm pretty hypocritical saying that, because i lack honesty a lot of the time.

"I hate all your show and pretense

the hypocrisy of your praise

the hypocrisy of your festivals

I hate all your show

Instead let there be a flood

of justice

An endless procession of righteous

living, living

Instead let there be a flood

of justice

Instead of a show

Your eyes are closed when you're praying

You sing right along with the band

You shine up your shoes for service

But there's blood on your hands

You turned your back on the homeless

And the ones that don't fit in your plans

Quit playing religion games

There's blood on your hands

Ah! Let's argue this out

If your sins are blood red

Let's argue this out

You'll be white as the clouds

Let's argue this out

Quit fooling around

Give love to the ones who can't

love at all

Give hope to the ones who got no

hope at all

Stand up for the ones who can't stand

up at all

Instead of a show

I hate all your show"

- Jon Foreman

"If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith as to move mountains, but do not have love, I have nothing." - 1 Corinthians 13:1-2

"We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for our bretheren." - 1 John 3:16

i just want you to know, that i write all of this because it so much of what i struggle with and have to preach to myself day in and day out.