Ok so i havent updated in a billion days and its been a little over a month and a couple of weeks but who cares lol. Just be glad im updating. A lot has happened since i updated last like i won 2 dollars on a scratch off lotto thing lol, i turned 18 but this entry isnt about that cuz it isnt that important. This is about something i had the ability to experience and it was the most eye opening thing ever.......

You ready to read about it.......

R U SURE? lol ok here goes......

Sunday was a day that i will never forget for the rest of my life. I walked into SUMC with a big smile and by the first ten minutes i was in the back crying. Laney Daniel will prolly never read or see this but the Lord used her to smack me in my face. She doesnt even know how much she affected my life and she was just being herself which is exactly it. It was youth involvement Sunday at our church, which if you dont know means the youth does everything including the offering and handing out the bulletins before service. Well Laney gets there and begins to help me hand out the flyers and i see and feel this glow coming from her that i cant miss. Then Cameron played the guitar and i was getting into it and i notice this absolute glow coming from Laney again. She is absolutely and without hinderance giving it up for the Lord. There isnt anything stopping her and by no means is she thinking about playing it small. She is raising her hands, smiling, laughing, and dancing. She is have an unashamed pursuit towards Christ. Christ is her focus and she wont let anything or anyone break her from that. She isnt going to be polluted by the world. It hit my heart so much that i began to cry. To see a girl who just lost her grandma recently who is that willing and demanding to give it up for Christ. She was eager to help and seek the Lord. Thanks again Laney. Christ is so in Laney Daniel that she is like a glow from afar and a inspiring girl that you want to be around and like.

i will never know how much it cost to see MY SIN upon that cross. We were singing that phrase this morning at church, we repeated it over and over and it hit me hard. Because we honestly think we grasp how much God loves us and how much he cares because we hear it over and over and we say to ourselves, " Self, i know this, i understand this." But the truth is we dont understand it, we dont even begin to even fathom how much God loves us and how much he wants to give us a life of hope, a future and success. As it says in Jeremiah 29:11. I personally, thought i had understood this and grasped the fact that Jesus saves, o and Jesus loves. But in all honesty, we are saved by Grace. The problem with Christians today and I am preaching to the choir on this one. We try and earn God's love and our way into Heaven. Lemme repeat myself......

We try and earn everything we have.

We dont realize that by doing that then we are in essence telling God we dont need what he has FREELY given us and we will earn it ourself. We dont need your SON, your one and ONLY son who died for us because we are going to earn our spot in Heaven. Put me down as number one God cuz i will WORK my way into heaven. It doesnt work like that. Christ has freely given us grace, Will you accept it? He has given us an opportunity to have everlasting life.

But one question before you can recieve that is......

Will you accept his free gift, his agape love?

It is an unconditional love that cannot be matched or met by anything and doesnt ask for anything in return. Do you accept Christ's gift?

A question was posed to me about Christianity not too long ago that is a common misconception among many non-Believers.

The questioner stated that Christianity was just a way to keep people under control by asking,

 “What if there were two people that lived identical lifestyles?

They did the exact same thing and even went to church on Sundays and ate the same food and married identical women.

 Why would the one who accepted Jesus go to Heaven and the other one wouldn’t?”

The irony of that question was that the answer was in it, but unclear.
When one accepts Jesus into their souls to actually dwell and live and breathe within them, they are not accepting some doormat God who acts only when He is called. They are accepting a cleansing of unimaginable category. When Jesus comes to dwell within you, He literally dwells within you. He purges the soul from all the wickedness and stops the sin at the root. He dives into the core of you and destroys that which makes you unworthy to worship Him in all His LORDSHIP.
It is consistently taught in the Scriptures that He is actually in your soul, and you, as a believer, are a vessel to carry Christ the King.

Our Lord says in Leviticus 26:12 and in 2 Corinthians 6:16 that He will “dwell in them, and walk in them.”

He makes it clear that He will abide in you and live and breathe and speak in you.

 He says it in Jon 14:20, John 15:4 and 5, Romans 8:10, 2 Corinthians 13:5, Galatians 2:20. God wants us to know that because we are His children, we are also a part of Him and He is indeed a part of us. That is a perfect reason for us to go out and do as He did and also as He commanded. We get accepted into Heaven because of our love for our King. We will dwell in Heaven with God because…

 God dwells in our souls on this earth.

 For those who reject the Kingdom here, they will be rejected from the Kingdom to come. It is up to us who have been entrusted with the precious gift of the Gospel to show the Way, the Truth, and the Life to those who we surround ourselves with. It is up to us to help vindicate them from their fleshly prison that they have entrapped themselves in by their human desires. One day, we will all be singing “Here is our King, and here is our Love…” in the presence of our Savior.

But we will have many friends, loved ones, and even people who we see in our day to day lives who will not be singing that and wishing they would have taken the gift that Christ so eagerly held in front of them.

 Jesus tells us to “go out into the entire world and preach the gospel to every living creature.” He also says “if you love me, then follow my commandments.” We owe it to Jesus to dedicate our entire lives to His cause because it is exactly what He did. As cliché as it has become, “Christ died for me; I will live for Him.”

Wow, havent really updated in a long time! Not that alot of people will read this anyway because everyone is all into myspace now. But my break has been not much of anything, just been hanging out with friends, sleeping, spending time with my family and not getting much of anything done. Have you ever had something pressing on your heart so bad that you had to just find someone that you trust and tell them about it? I dont know why but in like 5 days we will all be back at school, or most of us will and for some of us, it could be our last semester of high school, of a town that we have called home for our entire life or even a few years. This time next year, we will either be working or at college trying to get a better education to either make an impact on the world, or roll in alot of money with an amazing job. Either way, we go to school next week and im sure everyone has had an amazing break or some may have not done what they truely wanted to do but thats ok. I just want everyone to realize or those of us that are seniors to realize what we are about to be in the middle of. Its the last year of high school and we will be officially outside the comfort we have placed around ourself. I wanna challenge everyone that happens to read this to live it up. To be yourself, dont be fake or pretend, BE WHO YOU ARE!

Clay10

Now that Christmas is supposedly over we are just gonna let the meaning and the reason Christmas, is Christmas die. After every big holiday whether it be Christmas or Easter, a holiday that has a huge bearing and meaning with our Savior, who died for us, we let it die. Its like a mentor of mine said, we are letting Christmas become like the switchfoot song Beautiful letdown.

Why do we say well Christmas is over and its a done deal, lets what til next year?

Clay10