Day 2

Today wasn't exactly what I would call a productive day compared to yesterday. I woke up late, so I had to have my quiet time after Chapel at school. Chapel went really well. Pastor Mans shared about why some of us struggle loving God with our mind, heart, mind, and strength. One thing that he shared was how God is the one seeking us. Like the lost sheep, the lost coin, and the prodigal son - the active one is the person who lost something. The Prodigal son is just from a different perspective, but we know the father was searching and waiting for him to come back. God is waiting for us to come back to Him, anytime, anywhere. It's never too late.
I then though of the prodigal son some more and how we can learn a lot about how the son acted. When he came back, he didn't come in arrogant like "I'm back! I want my bed and my stuff. Bring me a head of a pig!" well, they wouldn't eat pigs cause they were Jews...but still. you get the point. The son came in humble and appreciative of the father's forgiveness. he didn't stop the father and say, "I'm the one who sinned, so I need to earn your love back. Stop saying you will just accept me back." He acknowledged the forgiveness and with humility came in. It's alwyas about humility. In the same way, we shoud'nt take God's active seeking for us for granted. We shouldn't take God's love for granted.
Later, watched a Nooma video about how we should stay in rythm with God all the time. It's like we shoudl watch what we do and make sure we are following God's will.
The one thing, though, that I woke up feeling and pondering and meditating over was this thought of really giving to God. I realized how easily I tend to trust in money and how lately I haven't been as freely blessing others with it. That's why giving back to God money is so amazing because it helps us to stop trusting money but begin trusting God to provide that money. Remember the early church? THey shared everything. Can't we do that more often? Like as the body of Christ really share with each other when there is a need because we know God is going to send us what we need when we need it.
Yup, so there you go. Nothing too deep and profound today. :-)