this life

When I applied for Belmont, I wasn't certain about my career path I was undertaking. There were a lot of setbacks during the application process and I thought well, maybe this was God saying don't go. I pressed onward, half-thinking He wanted me to go somewhere else. Was I like Jonah? Was I slinking away from what God really has for me? I came here though and things started in full swing. I got to know some people, my current friends, but there was something different from them that i wasn't used to. They were very open to practically anything and things they said, I wasn't used to. Some things were rude, crude, what have you. The more I hung around them, the more I became like them. I swore and acted mean toward people I didn't like. I professed I was a Christian but I think my friends scoffed at that because, really? what did i have to show for it? Well, this semester I wanted to start fresh, new. I asked God to forgive me for slipping up and wanted to be used by Him.
Yesterday and the day before, God has given me opportunities to minister to these friends of mine. At one point last semester, I thought I should try and find Christian friends who believed and thought the way I did. But then, I thought, what would be the point? Isn't the whole reason why we're out in the world is to be a friend to those who are lost? Aren't we supposed to be a light for them? Yea, we may not be perfect, and we may slip up a TON of times, but isn't that what and where we're supposed to be? What would I gain if all I did was involve myself in a church? Yea, I would be helping out the church but those people are already saved.
No, I think God is telling me this is where I'm supposed to be: with the hopeless and the lost. Maybe then, with Jesus' help and intervening, I can show them where there is Hope and where they can be found and loved.

I love being at Belmont University and the more I'm here the more I know I'm not here just to get a degree. I'm here to be a light to others, a listening ear, a guiding light. Jesus is so amazing and the work He's doing in my life and the lives of my lost friends is just incredible! I can't wait to see what He does in the near and later future!!