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esskay
Digital storyteller, Photographic narrator, Hogwarts alum. In real life, I write things. I speak fluent sarcasm. I'm unintentionally funny. My favorite thing is food. Guac is life. I'm a fountain of the most random information. I'm pretty, only because it's weird to call oneself beautiful. I'm weird in all the good ways. I live in the greatest city on Earth. I was Sasha before Beyonce was schizophrenic. My life is stranger than fiction. But please, don't take my word for it. My pen is mightier than my sword. Instagram
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Sunday, April 20, 2014 || 8:35 PM
Last week was pretty awesome. My church had it's youth week of prayer and every night, the youth came out and we sang and prayed and just spent time in the Word and we were all really blessed by the speaker's message night after night. Yesterday, we ended our week with youth day and it was a really beautiful Sabbath and just altogether a dope experience. As a Christian, I think I'm pretty knowledgable about my religion and beliefs (otherwise, why would I believe them?) but it was interesting to go back to basics and just learn about Christ. Not God, but Jesus the human man who walked the Earth just like the rest of us do everyday. It was interesting to see who He was, what He did and why He lived His life the way He did. It was also interesting that in learning more about Him, we learned more about ourselves, why we go through our personal struggles, how we sometimes make life unnecessarily harder for ourselves. A big thing we discussed last week was how Christians think that they can come to church every week, listen to their pastor, open the Bible, read the text and then go home and act like none of it happened. In order to grow as Christians, we have to spend time in God's word and take it seriously. Which is why it's pretty insane to think that we can dust off our Bible once a week, read a text or two in church, go home and shove it back in it's corner and expect our lives to change. That's something I thought about a lot this week because at one point or another, we've all been guilty of it. But then this day rolled around and slowly but surely, my social media feeds were flooded with statuses from people who only remember that Jesus is alive on Easter and only go to church once a year, long enough to show off their Sunday best and take some pictures for Instagram. I don't pretend to be better than these people. I don't know their story or their struggle. I'm a sinner saved by grace, just like the rest of them. But I just have to wonder, If those of us who only spend time in His word once a week are spiritually stagnant, does that mean that these people are spiritually dead? #questionsthatneedanswersLabels: in real life |