Summer Ruminations

This is a response to one of my intuitive students who decided to turn my questions around on me: Ahhh...i love seeing them challenge one another. I say all of this to defend the fact that I copy and pasted it straight from my response about what the Lord is doing in my life:

Brad Chandler

Today at 12:49am

hmmm well...
I've really been zeroing in on the Word from two perspectives:

1) Holiness (1&2 Peter and 1, 2, 3 John especially)

It seems like everywhere I look, God is just calling me to a higher place. Not that I'm better than someone else, but as God's people we are to be set apart from the world. If someone cannot tell the difference between an unbeliever and a Christ-follower, there is something wrong in our lives. Its really simple theology, I guess...but God is just calling me to be righteous and blameless in every way.
Check out Titus 2:11-14 --- Hecka good. "ZEALOUS for good works"

2) Eschatology (big word for End Times)

Its a very interesting subject. I've been approaching this more from an intellectual level rather than devotional/spiritual. There is a lot of misconception about the end times due to loose interpretations and assumptions in popular literature. yet when we look at what Jesus has to say...it is incredible (Matthew 24-25 blew my mind tonight!). Lots of good stuff i must say.

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Other than that, the Lord is teaching me to be patient and to wait on him...in everyway (what he is doing in my life, in the church, the world, and to wait for his soon coming).

I'm learning to appreciate family more and more back home...and old friendships with my old youth pastor. Very encouraging.

Lastly: Discipline. I developed a detailed personal growth plan for the summer outlining devotional commitments coupled with prayer, journaling, other spiritual disciplines, and ministry goals with SL and Rescue.

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I am beyond words at who the Lord really is...and I'm simply looking forward to what is going to go down this summer.