I probably shouldn’t be laughing.

But everyone’s complaining about how shitty life is right now…

And my life’s fuckin’ awesome!

Just sayin’.

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I reblogged this from my friend Derek McIntyre. He posted it 4 months ago. Yesterday he hanged himself. Anyone who knew him knew how much of a shock this is. Every memory I have of him included him smiling. I miss you Derek, I love you, William.

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Following 1 John 2:15-17 (posted at end).

The things of the world seem so enticing, so beautifu, so welcoming Things of the world suck. They come off so desireable. I want money. I want (worded to stay PG) all the things my eyes lust for. I want to be recognized for all the things “I” do, for all the talents I “have”.

I want… I crave… I desire…

Im tempted and it sucks. When I become closer to God, Im tempted even more And then He tells me not to love the world, and shows me a passage like this, “If anyone loves the world, then the love of the Father is not in him”. So I have to stop and ask myself: Do I love the world? I cant just skim over this and say no, and move on I know I decieve myself far too often to do that.

For exampe: The motive of this blog. My mind decieves me about it. I know the right answer: to glorify God. But then, in the back of my head, every once in a while Ill catch myself thinking about how I hope so-and-so is reading this, then Ill seem like a great person to them! Do I want the worlds attention?

But Satan gets in your head. There wouldnt be sin if he wasnt allowed to. A thought isnt sin until you dwell on it When I catch myself thinking that, I push it out of my head and pray. I can know for a fact this is 100% about glorifying God.

So if I cant go through something as simple as talking about my amazing Lord without questioning my sinful, deceptive self, then how can I read this passage that is straight forward and beg for a response without stopping?

And right now, I can tell you that I do not love the world. I can tell the God who can read my every thought, who I can not hide from, that I do not love the world. I really like mone, yes. Sometimes I really want the world to recognize me. I have desires. But loving the world means to put the worlds sthings above Gods things. And if I put God above all things, none of the things below matter. I love God, and He loves me for reasons only He knows. Because of this love, He enables me to get passed my desires and temptations, so that He may become my truest and only desire. Sometimes I need to be reminded that the things I do are just the things God does that He so graciously allowed me to be a part of. And the talents I have were given to me in order to use them to glorify the One who gave them to me.

The things of the world are not going to go away. But I know they pass, fade, crumble. My God does not pass. My God does not fade. My God does not crumble. Go ahead- weigh the options Between the World and God? Why would I wast me time giving love to the world that will only destroy me? My love is reserved for the God who made me, died for me, and loves me, and is the giver of all good things. My love is for the One who enables me to love.

1 John 2:15-17

15 Do not love the world or anything in the world If anyone loves the world, then the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For everything in the world-the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does-comes not from the Father but from the world. 17 The world and its desires pass away, but the man who des the will of God lives forever.

In Love,

William

Considering as I was reading this, I either had the urge to highlight/underline everything or actually did, I figured I should stop before the section was even complete yet, and write down my thoughts already! So here it goes, as always, the section should be posted at the end.

After his intro in verses 1-4 establishing trust in the readers of his letter that everything he talks about is truth, he gets down to his point. “God is light, in Him there is no darkness at all”. A pretty asic thought for any believer reading this. But reading this for me came with a reminder: God is nothing like us He is pure. There is no sin, there are no mistakes, there is no selfishness or deceit. God is God! A basic thought (not really, but to those who’ve become complacent to it, it is), but also a humbling reminder that God is so far above us.

Now go take a look at verse 6. Yeah. Not as heartwarming of a reminder. In case there’s any question in your mind, you are not 100% light, like God. The smallest bit of darkness infects purity. One simple verse that is convicting to any Christian. You can not be in light if there is sin. If you believe anything Ive been writing, you know there’s sin in your life. We suck. Our own hearts can deceive us of this.

Story doesn’t end there though- skip real quick to verses 8 and 9. Christ purifies us of ALL unrighteousness. Of every sin, we’re cleared. Confess it, and He is faithful and forgives. (Not to be taken advantage of though). Awesome, right? Awesome is an understatement. butfits so well because of how greatly Christ inspires awe through this amazing truth. Made pure, we can walk in the light, not with out sin, but not deceiving ourselves of our sins so that they may e forgives, covered, and walk with our Holy God (and every attribute that is concomitant with His character) through His Sons redeeming blood.

Part of me wants to stop there. Chapter 2:1-2 only further establishes this truth. Though it wasn’t articulated perfectly in this post, this is such a BIG, life changing truth. Even a believer who has heard this truth a thousand times, if it has not been lost on them and they truly believe it, can stop with me and praise God for His reminders of His amazing Love. Life changing truths can not be lost on you if you truly believe the truth.

However, the truth has spurred me, and I have no choice but continue.

In the NIV Bible, the one Im currently using, this section is titled “Walking in the Light”, and Ive only covered half of it thus far. The first half shows how we’ve come to be ble to live in the light, ut the second part briefly (very briefly) expresses what that looks like.

Straight to the point- follow His commandments. Through out this letter, John sort of goes into detail of what “walking in the light” looks like. V. 9, he’s telling you not to fool yourself. YOU ARE A SINNER. Yes, God, through Jesus blood, has forgiven you of all your sin- past, present, and future. But that doesn’t mean you can just ignore sins you do habitually (such as hating your brother, as he talks about). Reading this, I was convicted and had to stop. I encourage you (who ever you are) to do the same. I asked myself if/what sins I was continuing to fall into. My heart was broken and I felt momentarily traumatized by my own continuous foolishness. Then I brought them to the foot of the cross.

Ive noticed how often God repeats a message to me over and over again all in the same, short period of time. Its amazing how that “just-so-happens”. I started writing this note a few days ago, had to stop short due to another engagement, and finally get to finish. Tonight at youth group, we continued our “All or Nothing” series. It only continued and reaffirmed sanctification. Symbolically, we wrote our “Jesus and…” down, then brought them to the foot of two pieces of wood nailed together. The other day God gave me the opportunity to bring my sin to the cross, and tonight He gave me the strength to leave them there and fully lean on His goodness and grace.

God is Good.

All the Time.

Amen.

In Love,

William

⁵ This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. ⁶ If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth. ⁷ But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.

 ⁸ If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. ⁹ If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. ¹⁰ If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word is not in us.

¹ My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. ² He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.

 ³ We know that we have come to know him if we keep his commands. ⁴ Whoever says, “I know him,” but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in that person. ⁵ But if anyone obeys his word, love for God is truly made complete in them. This is how we know we are in him: ⁶ Whoever claims to live in him must live as Jesus did.

 ⁷ Dear friends, I am not writing you a new command but an old one, which you have had since the beginning. This old command is the message you have heard. ⁸ Yet I am writing you a new command; its truth is seen in him and in you, because the darkness is passing and the true light is already shining.

 ⁹ Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates a brother or sister is still in the darkness. ¹⁰ Anyone who loves their brother and sisterlives in the light, and there is nothing in them to make them stumble. ¹¹ But anyone who hates a brother or sister is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness. They do not know where they are going, because the darkness has blinded them.

 ¹² I am writing to you, dear children,
   because your sins have been forgiven on account of his name.
¹³ I am writing to you, fathers,
   because you know him who is from the beginning.
I am writing to you, young men,
   because you have overcome the evil one.

 ¹⁴ I write to you, dear children,
   because you know the Father.
I write to you, fathers,
   because you know him who is from the beginning.
I write to you, young men,
   because you are strong,
   and the word of God lives in you,
   and you have overcome the evil one.

I hardly ever post unless Im particularly moved to, so Im sorry to anyone who actually reads this. But its not really for you anyway, its between me and God, and an oppertunity to talk about my God to anyone who decides to listen. None the less- compared, this is a relatively short post.

Ive often equated Pauls description of love in 1 Corinthians 13 to characteristics of God. One of which I have been especially thankful for lately. Namely, “Love is Patient”.

In 1 Timothy 1:12-17 (which Ill post at the end), Paul tells Timothy how much grace God has shed upon him. After reading this passage, I had to stop and thank the same One, True God, for the same exact grace He pours on me daily!

Lets be honest. Im pretty screwed up. Its not exactly a secret. Youre mess up too, I promise. Yet Christ Jesus came down to save sinners? Sinners like you and me, who are ridiculously messed. up.? We cursed God, hated Him; heck, we tried to kill Him! And He still willingly chose to die and come back to life, taking our sins upon His holy self. For us? Is anyone elses mind blown? In fact, this is often lost on His followers when in reality it should bring absolute awe and love and rejoicing worship in to our lives on a daily basis. Which every single characteristic does.
Honestly, how can we not be moved by His presence constantly?

And here comes the sad reality: we dont. I forget His infinite love. I forget His righteousness, sovereingty, His holiness, and complete immutability. And as a result, even knowing this, I can still rejoice that none of this depletes His unlimited patience. He takes all my crap, my lies, my selfish ambition- and then He forgives me. Now dont get me wrong, Im not saying this as an excuse, and hopefully you dont either. His arms remain wide open, accepting His children back every single time we leave. but its not something to be taken advantage of. The sanctification He offers to us   just makes me love Him all the more. each time Im reminded of His greatness over my complete and utter helplessness I need to be closer to Him. All glory and honor remains Gods because of His mercy on my wandering heart.

My point is made- I need God as much today as I did yesterday as I will tomorrow and everyday of my life. God is good! He is perfect, He is the Lord! He reminds me of all He is, and all I am not. I hear His voice, and I have not choice but to love Him!

1 Timothy 1:12-17:

I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me strength, that he considered me faithful, appointing me to his service. Even though I was once a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent man, I was shown mercy because I acted in ignorance and unbelief. The grace of our Lord was poured out on me abundantly, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners- of whom I am the worst. But for that very reason I was shown mercy so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display his unlimited patience as an example for those who would believe on him and recieve eternal life. Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and lory for ever and ever. Amen.

I’ll reference Colossians 1:1-14 throughout this post. So, Ill post the entire passage at the end of the note in case you wish to follow along.

This first section of Paul’s letter to Colosse is about his prayers for them and expresses how thankful he is to them. I quickly realized, these are not the things I think of to pray for nor to be thankful for. Furthermore, noticing how dead my prayer life often is.
Coincidentally, this passage nicely compliments a series on relationships, particularly a session on friendship, that we’re currently doing at my youth group. The passage focuses on friendships built on Christs foundation and their importance in encouragement through fellowship. The last couple weeks in my life have really shown me that my three or so best relationships are all founded through Christ, and we often talk about our faith with each other. In opinion, aside from Christs gift of redemption, fellowship with believers may be the most important thing to be thankful for. In retrospect, is it surprising that faith based relationships become the greatest? They’re a gift from God, and all things from God are great!

Firstly, I want to talk about the root in which the relationships spring from. Paul is especially thankful for them because of their faith. Just by the knowledge that they are like-minded in their love for God draws Paul to them. Verse five explains that root of that love and faith as the hope that is stored up in heaven for them. This hope is Jesus Christ, and the gift He gave that is “stored up in heaven,” and therefore can not be taken from them (Matthew 5:19-24). Faith and love become the spiritual gifts given from the hope we have that allows me to love- the love that is a product of the Spirit., and in the Spirit (v.8). Verse 6 comes with a reminder: that the Gospel has been given to the whole world, and therefore we cant boast that we are a special or better than the world, because the whole world has been given the same opportunity, and then we can not boast in anything short of God. That idea may be pushing the context a bit, but its what came to mind while I was reading.

After reminding the believers in Colosse of the root, he furthers his prayer for his brothers. Verse nine, Paul prays they will be filled with knowledge and understanding of Gods will. The will of God is depicted throughout His word, showing how important it is to know the Word. SInce Paul uses the term “spiritual” as an adjective for wisdom and understanding, even mroe can be taken from the statement. The idea of Spiritual Wisdom then becomes the ability to discern what His will is, and Spiritual Understanding vecomes the ability to apply the knowledge to life, becoming the way of life. THe prayer continues in verse ten, that by applying the knowledge to life, that it will bear fruit that is pleasing and worthy to God, which in turn produces a thirst for knowledge of God, which He always satisfys. Thus creating a cycle of gaining knowledge and applying it.

Relating this back to friendship, my speculation of this passage shows how relationships grow. Miles Prim always says that in order for a relationship to grow horizontally (between two people), it must first grow vertically (between a person and God.
In other words, ’ not sure if the following is a popular description, but the relationship between two believers and God can be depicted as an equilateral triangle. God is the top point, and each believer are the lower two points. As each lower point grows closer to the top together, towards God, two believers cant help but to grow closer to each other, unless breaking the perfect relationship of the properties in an equilateral triangle, the perfect relationship God has planned for His children. Which is why I believe this is the excitement Paul has in learning of their like minded faith!

I always enjoy reading Pauls letters because he always bring the topic back to Christ, which he doesnt fail to do at the end of this prayer. Paul prays that we will be strenghened by Gods power to have patience and endurance to live this life in a way worthy of God and to be able to give thanks to the Father because He has “qualified” us for heaven, rescueing us from a dark world into His kingdom, through His SOn, Jesus Christ (v11-13). Then finishes in v.14, affirming that Christ has redeemed us, and we are forgiven of all our sins.

I realize how some of you may not see how I’m so confident in relating this passage to friendship, and don’t see how each paragraph relates to each other. However, anyone (if anyone) reading this post who is a believer, and experiences these relationships, hopefully understands what I’m saying. Nonetheless, allow me to explain my madness if it doesn’t at all make sense to you.
As I said, anyone who is a believer, and experiences these relationships with fellow believers, knows how exciting it is to talk about Christ, and whats been done for you. Yes, Paul briefly says hes thankful for them, then goes on to pray for them and talk about God. Isnt that the point though? Jacob Schmidt, Nathaniel Crites, and Leah Pelegrin are my best friends. I am always thankful for them, and I remind them of that. I pray for them all the time. And guess what, we talk about God a lot! These relationships are exciting! Hopefully, knowing someone knows God draws a believer to them.
Anyway, even if this post was slightly sloppy, these are the ideas I got out of this passage. Hopefully it brought light to it, because the first time I read this passage, I didn’t get it.

In love,
William

¹ Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

 ²To God’s holy people in Colossae, the faithful brothers and sisters in Christ:

   Grace and peace to you from God our Father.

Thanksgiving and Prayer

 ³ We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, ⁴ because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love you have for all God’s people— ⁵ the faith and love that spring from the hope stored up for you in heaven and about which you have already heard in the true message of the gospel ⁶ that has come to you. In the same way, the gospel is bearing fruit and growing throughout the whole world—just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and truly understood God’s grace. ⁷ You learned it from Epaphras, our dear fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on ourbehalf, ⁸ and who also told us of your love in the Spirit.

 ⁹ For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives,¹⁰ so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, ¹¹ being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, ¹² and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light. ¹³ For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, ¹⁴ in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

If I could speak in any language in heaven or on earth but didnt love others, I would only be making meaningless noise like a loud gong or a clanging cymbal. If i had the gift of prophecy, and if I knew all the mysteries of the future, and knew everything about everything, but didn’t love others what good would I be? And if I had the gift of faith so that i could speak to a mountain and make it move, without love I would be no good to anybody. If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body I could boast about it but if I didn’t love others I would be of no value whatsoever.

_1 Corinthians 13:1-3 (Paul)

Loving is hard. Let me be honest for a moment. I hate “stupid” people. I struggle with arrogance, I know, because Im the first to view people as beneath me. (which goes directly against the mentality I am called to have (Matt. 20:24-28).)

However, what Paul makes painfully clear here, is that Im nothing If I dont love. I use the word painfully here purposely, only because it legitamently hurts me to read this, and for me to explain why, I have to fill you in on a brief story, so bear with me. (wrong bear I know).

At Hybrid, the small group Im in is complete with a few great guys, and a faithful group leader, an old buff guy named Miles. Miles sometimes irritates me. He is a great leader for us. But, he always brings a majority of our sins and issues to the root- Pride. It bugged the crud out of me till I realized how true that idea is.

Back to my point. It is painful to hear mostly because of my pride. I love all of Pauls letters because of how theyre brought to loving people and God most. I love the idea of love. Its an amazing concept. To certain crowds, Im a very loving person. But my pride doesnt like to admit that I am certainly not loving to everyone. I am meaningless noise when I talk.

Over all point…

Am I careful about my words? No.

Do they often have potential to hurt? Yes.

At the end of the day, do I feel convicted? Not often…

What am I gonna do about it? Well heres a start— Im asking God to help me. I know for a fact I cant change my mindset alone. How could a love such an awful being (including myself)? God loves us though… So, awesomely much. Its kind of a big middle finger to God if I refuse to love His creations. I need to see what He sees when He looks at us. Or atleast a portion. Im begging God for His help.

Final question: Are you careful about your words? Do they often have the potential to hurt? At the end of the day, do you feel convicted?

Are you gonna do anything about it?

Love outwardly. Let people see you do truely love them.

Love inwardly first. Be legitament about the love, or it does not mean a thing.

(I am telling myself this just as much as I am suggesting it to anyone that might actually be reading this.)

In love,

William

I have 3 parts to this title planned in my head, so I have so much more of this passage to pick apart. but first I have to bring in another passage and then integrate them… So to keep this all short, this is what I have.

Hello all,

This post should be relatively short.

I haven’t been posting for about a month. Not really a big deal. The problem comes in, I haven’t really been spending time with God the last month. Its funny how when things start to get comfortable that happens. Basically, I needed God to remind me who I am, and to go back. During the time “off” from paying attention to God, I fell back into old sins and old temptations. The thoughts were always dancing in the back of my head, but it became easier to do it.

Winter camp was Jan 21-24 at my youth group here in Arizona at Redemption Church. It was a great time! A lot of great worship, motivating speaker, good talks with the guys in the group, and an amazing time building relationships up with people here, which is a big deal cause (if you didn’t know) I moved to Arizona from Wisconsin about 8 months ago, and change is hard. -So, over all, it was a great time. Camp also made me start rethinking my relationship with God (again), and how I chose to turn my back on Him (again), and most importantly, I realized how absolutely screwed I am when I turned from Him (yet, again).

So naturally, I quickly resolved to focus again upon my Redeemer. The problem came in when I started telling myself “Let me get rid of this sin real quick, then He’ll be happy to accept me again!”… Yeah, that didn’t turn out too well. I have yet to. The other day I realized that wasn’t going to change without Christs help…. Then my excuse told me “Tomorrow, Ill do it tomorrow!”… and tomorrow came. Guess what didn’t happen!

My point to this post. God wants me. He wants you. He isn’t holding your sin against you. Its all already forgiven prior to our births. This is a seemingly simple, and amazing concept that I am not going to get into for the sake of space, time, and because I get excited about it and Ill just make a seperate post of how AMAZING God is another day. Ill probably do many describing that, but on this topic particularly, I mean.

If your on the edge of a relationship with our Savior, just START. Its going to be hard. At least at first. Christ loves us so much, give Him what He wants and deserves, and that only means a relationship with Him. No prior rules and regulations. Just give Him yourself.

OK, So, camp was a great experience. I never want a camp like it again. Camp was, once again, about returning to God… Its purpose should be about strengthening your relationship with Him in an undistracted environment.

So, as a conclusion, Ive found the purpose of this blog that I was searching for since I made it 2 months ago.

I’m going to use it as a way to express what God is doing in my life and teaching me. Its going to be a way to keep myself on track with daily time with Him. Read it if you want, that’s why I’m posting it. I’m not gonna be theologically (not a word I don’t think) correct a lot of the time, but hopefully that ll get better.

Last note: please read if you find it interesting. If youre reading this and instinctly thinking of critisizing it or me. Keep it to yourself. I dont care, however I wish to keep this a completely constructive blog.

Thanks

In Love,

William

So, first real post. The last couple of days I have been going through Isaiah for my personal devotions, and I’d like to share what has come to mind thus far. I’m only in Chapter 10 now. Side Note: I use NLV translation.

Overview of the book so far, God has warned His people that He is going to destroy their great nations for various reasons. In chapter 5, the phrase “Destruction is certain…” was used four times, and then followed by different sinful characteristics shown by the people of these nations, and are applied to modern life also. For example, here are two of the passages

5:8— Destruction is certain for those who drag their sins behind them, tied with cords of falsehood.

5:20— Destruction is certain for those who say that evil is good and good is evil; that dark is light and light is dark; that bitter is sweet and sweet is bitter.

Long story Short: We, as people, are screwed when we turn from God. Our sins drag us down, and we try to cover it up. We lie to others that evil is good and good is evil in order to try and atone ourselves, (Which we can’t). Basically: We suck as people, and in return we get what we deserve, destruction.

God continues to warn all these nations that He will destroy them. Still their hears are hardened to His warnings through Isaiah, just like he said the would when he called Isaiah. (6:9-10)

Since Ive only read the New Testament for so long, it was kind of an eye opener- At First I was thinking, Old Testament God was destructive, New Testament God was loving. Right? But in reality, He is the same loving God in both! In the OT he got rid of sin by destroying it, after Christs sacrifice, It is all atoned for, not on our own accord but through His son, Jesus.

Simple enough of an idea, it just made me (once again) reevaluate how important Christs sacrifice truly is.

Anyway, I started wondering why God would warn all these people, know their hearts would be hardened to it, (again, 6:9-10) then destroy the entire nation. But then I realized, I haven’t spent time with God in two months, He has warned me through His word that if I turned from Him destruction is certain, and my heart was hardened. And guess what, my “nation” fell, and then he brought me to choose Isaiah to start again in.

This idea brings two, completely related things to one.

1)God has a plan for me, even when I’m not trusting Him

When He chose to bring me back to Him- He knew exactly where He wanted me to read. I thought I chose going through the Major Prophets at random, But it wasn’t! God chose the Major Prophets purposefully, Its kind of humbling and really cool. (at least for me)

and 2) is unrelated in the fact it has nothing to do with the present, but completely related because it applies both ways and has everything to do with the present

God needed each nation to fall. “Needed” is the wrong word, because He doesn’t need anything, but it was part of His plan so it neededto happen. Make sense? Doesn’t matter cause it does to me, and this is my blog anyway…. Anyway!

By Shattering each nation, breaking it down to almost nothing, He brought His people back to Him. When we have nothing, we have nothing left to turn to except God. We cant turn to people because people only have words that are shortsighted, unreliable, and selfish, Their minds are corrupted. (2:22) We cant turn to thing because.. well because they’re things. they mean nothing except for earthly worth which is worth nothing, and may be what God took from us. We do, however, still have God to turn to, who is indescribable in all ways. Seriously! I sat here for a good 20 minutes typing, then backspacing any words I could use to describe Him, and I have nothing that is good enough!

In each warning of destruction, He promised to allow the nation to rebuild, but this was only possibly once they turned back to God. God gave us freewill, with that gift we chose to turn our backs to Him. So basically, he makes it easy on us by taking away all choices so that all we had left was to choose Him. He does this to different extents in all His children’s lives at some point, to bring us back to Him and remind us of His power.

Anyway, I’m sorry this was so long, and it will all likely be much shorter in the future! This was just what God has shown me, and its what I want to share with you.

In Love,

William

Ok, my name is William Stern. I’m starting this tonight, and I have no idea what I plan to do with it. Mostly I’ll share my experiences and how God is working around me. I’ll kind of post whatever… Whenever. I’m going to go ahead and keep this off Facebook until I know whether or not this was a good idea. That way I spare myself from embarrassment!