Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!!
This semester has been long and crazy but yet I feel that God has shown me a lot, once again.
I just got home today for Christmas break and when I look back on this Fall semester at ECU, leadership, bible study, school, and life, all I can say is that God was in control because I was like a chicken with my head cut off > haha
What I've been learning:
*Sanctification
--a life long walk with Christ and not just a moment or 'spiritual highs'--Why lifelong? Why does God just not take us up with him as soon as we accept his grace and love? Why leave us here in this terrible world where we have to be afraid of gunmen coming in our schools and killing children? Why won't he take us with him now??!
I have learned though this year and a half from walking with him that we walk through life with Christ to fall more in love with him and to see how much we truly do not deserve his love..
Through struggles, we are humbled to our lowly position and become more thankful for Grace. We learn to rely more on God and less on ourselves and that ultimately is worship to our father.
Through growth, with other believers we fall more in love with God's actual character and not just what is to come and we get a small look of what one body of Christ looks like in unity.
Through sharing the Gospel--this is huge---we are privileged to share the best news in the world with others--bringing thanks to God--and we are reminded of the gospel over and over when sharing it --this keeps us passionate for Jesus and reminds us of the darkness where we came from.
It brings tears to my eyes how much God has touched my heart this semester back at ECU for those who do not know him. I constantly struggle with sharing the gospel because I am human; but God is constantly at work as he has placed girls in my life to remind me of how a non-believer truly relies on earthly things for love---sex, money, school, attention--and its exhausting!! With this being said, he has given me a heart for girls who do not know him--I pray God only opens the hearts of girls in my life so he can show them his grace and love and I can simply be a part of his work.
Please continue to pray for me as I have applied for Clearwater, Florida Summer Project 2013 as a Student-Staff member! Thank you so much for all your prayers!
Hope you and your family have a wonderful Christmas and God is worshiped in your homes as I pray the same for mine! Remember the reason for the season !
Love, Danielle
