It's Been So Long, I Fogot to Write a Title Here and had to Go Edit

Hey! Wow, it's been a while. It feels really good to be writing a blog post again. :) So much has happened since my last post! Man! I've got a new baby brother! His name is Justin Nicholas Wegner. I don't think I mentioned that in my last one. I don't think he was born yet! lol And he's almost three months old! Time flies, bigtime. But then some of that stuff I was writing about in my last post seems so far away now, it's crazy, but it wasn't actually that long ago. It's weird how life just moves on, and you get lost in time, and you take a look back and it's like, wow, that seems like forever ago but yet it seems like yesterday.

I don't even know where to start here! I want to say I'm gonna be posting more regularly, but it's all in how much spare time I have, which usually is very little. :D And we all know that just cuz I say that doesn't mean it'll happen. lol Everyone in my family's doing really well! Praise God for that! It's been a rough year for us, as most of you probably know. We were just looking back Thursday (Thanksgiving) over everything we have to be thankful for, and it's crazy what the Lord's given us. Even with Justin, He's been so faithful to keep Him as healthy as he could possibly be in the curcumstances he was in. It's a long story to go into that; maybe I wrote on that before, i don't remember! lol Maybe I'll write an update on him soon. But, He's given me a job, health, strength, a semi-smart mind ;), and second chances left and right! He's so merciful, guys. It's crazy. And not only is He merciful, He's loving and He's good and He's justice all at once, and so many other things. The thought popped into my head the other day, sparked by something a friend said, that every good character trait, whether it's grace or mercy or love or justice or any other thing that's good, if we want to know the definition of it, just look to Him! He takes all those things and blends them all into one perfect blend! Which we seem to have an impossibly hard time doing. I know, all that I said there is obvious. But think about it for a minute. It's powerful. Take time to know who He is, His character, His ways. That's the way to get discernment: when you know the character of Christ, that's when you can correctly discern truth from error when things are in the grey areas. That is, if you're looking to Him, and not just at what you want. That leads to a question I had posed to me this week, and I've really been thinking on it and asking a couple other people the same question. Are you seeking Christ's kingdom first? Is your life helping to bring His kingdom to this earth? It's a hard question. At least it was for me. Now, I'm not someone who thinks that unless you give up everything you have (I mean literally like sell everything, you now what I mean) then you're not living for Christ. Or you can't have a job and be saving money and looking to maybe have a family of your own someday if it's in His will for you, and that if you're doing that then you're not "giving it all." But, where's your heart. Especially you guys and girls who are around my age. What are you living for? Are you living for your future home? Or are you living for Christ, and a possible home of your own is something to look forward to and prepare for, but not to live for? Just some thoughts to be thinking on, if you want. :) It's crazy how we always have to be checking and double checking our motives for things. You know, most things that take me away from God are not necessarily sinful things in and of themselves. They're more things that are ok, but I take them, put them in the wrong place in my heart, have the wrong motives, or something like that, and before you know it you're over there, and God's over here. And that's why motives and the spirit of something is so important to me, because I think when there's a question on something, that's where you have to go for answers. And then that's where the discernment comes in. And man, do I need more of that. And it's a fine line to be drawn, because you can get too caught up in what the spirit of something is and lose track of what the Bible says. Or you can be a lawmaker and just make up rules left and right off of what you think the Bible says. But the happy medium is, I think, the happy medium, where you have a balance of both things. And there's a difference between discerning for your life or your family's life, and discerning for everyone else's life. lol Quite often, the second discerning becomes restricting to Christ and judgmental, and leads to unnecessary strife and division in His body. Yet again, a fine, fine line to be drawn, and I can't really see where it should be. I guess, that's what the Holy Spirit is for, right? To lead us when we face those impossibly fine lines!

Woah, I got a little rambling there and jumping from one thing to the next. :D Sorry about that! Hope it all makes sense, though. You know what's really awesome? Getting Thursday off, working one day, and then having another two full days off! :) Very nice. Looking forward to this weekend, especially tomorrow! ;) Today should be really good, too.

Live for Him!