Gotta Die a Little so I Can Live a Little

"Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.  In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness. For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace."     --Romans 6:8-14




Whenever I feel I have life figured out, I always tend to fall flat on my face. I allow myself to get in the way of what the Lord is doing in my life. I hate that I always have to figure out the hard way to continuously pray that I would give everything over to the Lord. Too many times I tell God "No I have this under control" when really I need him and I continuously need his guidance and direction. This verse is a constant reminder of how I need Jesus to take complete control of every aspect of my life. Without him, I am a sitting duck for Satan to begin to twist my perception of things and allow him to infest the things the Lord has given me that are so good. Lucky for me and everyone else our God is a God of grace, and there is nothing I can do that He cannot conquer and that He cannot heal. I just have to die to myself and the ways of this world and make myself available to Him so that I can be alive to the things of above. In that death of myself, there is freedom in Christ. And its time that I truly begin to embrace that truth and experience that freedom and life in Christ that has been there for me all along.

Recruiting

It has been a long time since I have blogged. And for my first post in over two months I am going to vent about something that really doesn't matter too much. Nothing real spiritual here.


Recruiting is becoming a monster. How is it that a 17 or 18 year old kid can just about make an old man cry if he goes to a school other than his own? These kids haven't even done anything yet, but we act as though they are the next Heisman Trophy winner. Sure, one of them very well could be, but a lot of these kids may end up being not that special. I admit, I get sucked into all of the hype too. In fact  today I have spent a lot of time reading about recruiting reports and watching ESPNU to get all the updates. Honestly, I probably wasted a large majority of my time today. And I have been stressing about whether or not one OL will sign his stinkin letter of intent to Auburn. So dumb.


I need to get in the Word and off of Rivals.