MMMMHHMMM…

So, I have not written in a while.  Basically I have no excuse for this!  HAHA.  I do not feel that I need one though because I do this only when I feel like I am led to write on here.  Anyways…lately I have started to get more and more busy with baseball and school.  It ydoes not leave much time for anything else, and when I do have time outside of those two activities I am usually resting/napping.  I mean I have seriously taken a two hour nap every day for the past week I think.  That is just a little update on me.

Now…for this quote…I think this could be the best quote I have heard of its kind in a while.

It goes, “Be consistently aware of the need to serve God and serve others in any and all of your actions.”

Have no idea who said it…I just saw it in a book of quotes we had to look at in my Stress Management class (since I have so much stress in my life…NOT!!!).

MARCH MADNESS…

Warning…the month of March is not for the faint of heart.  It is all about the MADNESS!!!  This could be my favorite time for college athletics.  I love football, and baseball season…but the MADNESS is overwhelming.  Clemson has been my favorite team my whole life.  With that said, I would like to say that they will be making a run in the tournament this year.  Here are the latest polls.  Gosh, I cannot wait until February is over.  Not to wish my life away, but this part of the year is unreal…it is also the beginning of my other favorite sport; college BASEBALL!  GET A LITTLE BIIIT

What is our job???

Discipline…the essential ingredient growth of any Christian in my opinion (outside of Jesus Christ).  Without it how do you expect to grow?  How do you expect to learn about your Savior’s character?  How do you expect to clear up the cloudy lines of communication? 

I have been getting pounded by this lately.  Everything I am reading, everything I am listening to, everything I am a part of it seems like is all about discipline.  Now, obviously, without God nothing is possible…nothing good that is.  But, once you have been called out of the darkness and bondage to sin by the amazing grace of God, how big is our role in becoming Holy???  I will say this, we make the choice every day who or what we serve.  Now, does that mean that the grace of God becomes less abundant the more we choose to serve the world?  NO WAY!!!  It does mean that our relationship and our walk with Him will suffer.  So, with all that being said, our part in becoming holy is crucial.  I guess I thought that it would always be spoon fed to me.  I could not have been farther from the truth.  Every day when I wake up my mind is caught up in what I want, what I need, what I have to do.  The fight to run after God is not for the faint of heart.  It is an incredible battle to fight the war that rages on in the depths of the soul each day.  I long for the day when I wake up and my first thoughts are on Him.  How can I get out of the way so much so that people do not even see me, but they see the love of Christ shining through me?  It takes discipline to make choices that will direct your thoughts and actions toward God.  You have to make tough choices when tempted with every day life.  Choose to serve “Parker,” or choose to serve Jesus Christ.  This has been weighing on me every day for a while.  I am coming to see more and more every day that I cannot make those choices by myself.  I must run to my Father in weakness and pray and humble myself and fall flat on my face and ask Him for help.  Here…and here…and here…let pride fall by the wayside.  God, the Creator of the Universe, longs for us to ask Him to help us.

It takes discipline to wake up and channel your thoughts toward God.  It takes discipline to spend time with God in the morning so your attitude doesn’t stink.  Without God, though, I am capable of nothing.  I must know this every day as well.  I am but a sinner, saved by the perfect atonement for my sin…Jesus Christ.