Hmmmm

Hey there!!! I'm back to the blogging world! Man I've been putting this post off for a while :) I had a really good trip down to Panama! Had an awesome time and really enjoyed it. But this post isn't about Panama. That is coming soon with pics and all! :D I just wanted to tell y'all some of what I've been thinking lately.

Have you ever noticed that the Lord doesn't really spell too much out in the New Testament? For example, He doesn't say, "Ok, when your parents think you should do one thing but you disagree and feel that I would want you to do this thing, this is what you do" or "This is the type of music that you should be listening to." I don't know about you, but I wish sometimes that the Lord would do that. I mean it would make this life so much easier! I'd have the answer to just about everything! He spells out the actual sins: lust, murder, fornication, stealing, etc. But He doesn't go much beyond that. He doesn't really show us the best things to do in our normal everyday situations that we face. He doesn't tell us, "If you do this it leads to this" or "If you really want to do what I would have you do in this situation, do this." He kinda did that in the Old Testament. Why doesn't He do that now?

Well, I've been thinking (I heard that shocked gasp!!! :D.) I think He doesn't lay it all out for us because He wants us to seek after the answers. His greatest desire is to have a personal, one-on-one, living relationship with you and with me and with every person in the world. He wants us seeking and searching after Him. If all we had to do was just look up a chapter and verse for every situation there wouldn't be too many minutes spent praying, asking Him His will. There wouldn't be too many minutes spent searching the Bible striving to learn the character of the Lord so that you can deal with situations that come up in the most pleasing way to Him. He doesn't want us obeying some dead laws that don't mean anything to us. He wants us to do things because we love Him and we're willing to spend the time to learn His will.

So having said all that, I need help! :) No. But I've run into things in the past and I've run into a few things again where it's like, "What do I do!" I have all these things that I have to make decisions on and I don't know what to do. I have to decide what's not only the good thing, what's the best? And many of the decisions that I make now will affect my future and my future family, if the Lord gives me one of those :) I whined to my uncle the other day, "How come almost all of the really important decisions in life you make at a time when you have the least wisdom?" He told me something that was really good. He said that the Lord gives us a way around that, if we choose to listen. One thing is our parents. If we are blessed to have parents who we can go to with problems then that's one way we can do it. Another is just older people in general. They've been through alot of it before and can give good advice. And then the most important thing of course is just going to the Lord with it, and asking "What would Jesus do?"

So having said all that, I still need help!! :D When it all comes down to it, I still have to be the one to make the decision. I have to take everything, all the advice, all my thoughts, and say, "Ok, this is what I think should be done." You know what I'm saying? And usually those decisions don't affect just me. That's what's really tough.

So can you guys be praying for me? I know I've messed up in the past and I know I'll mess up again; it's a good thing that the Lord and other people around me are patient!