It's interesting to think about who I was in June of 2011 who I am in June 2012 and who I will be in June 2013.
I haven't stopped growing since the day I was conceived.
the person Adam is an always changing being.
I wonder which me will be eternal.
The older I get the wiser I become but the more sinful I've been. Would it be better to have the experience of my elder self, the body of my adult self, or the innocence of my younger self? The longer I live the more I know You and seek Your face but at the same time the more I fail, the more this world wounds me, the more my eyes are opened, and I realize I am naked. Interesting how sin has a way of eroding innocence.
I wonder if my eternal self will be all three and more.
As I look back at the man behind these hands one year ago I have trouble realizing that I am that same man. I am that same boy who grew up in Wauseon, who worked in the lumber yard, who went to community college, who worked at that summer camp, who graduated from Ohio State, who made the promises, who said the things, who did the things, who treated people the way he did.
It seems each life contains many lives within it. Chapters, I suppose, in the same book. But how incredibly different each chapter can look from the previous. I wonder if David thought the same thing. He was a small shepherd boy after God's own heart. But at his last breath how much of that had he lost or how much more did he gain? The same goes for Moses: basket to royalty to shepherd to leader of Israel. The list goes on and on in fact Your word is filled with men like this whose lives contain drastically different chapters throughout.
With each step towards death I become closer to You, yet sin sticks to my feet. Please wash them Abba. June of 2012 is greater than June of 2011. I pray that You would make June of 2013 greater still Jesus. Only You know who I'll be then.
I haven't stopped growing since the day I was conceived.
the person Adam is an always changing being.
I wonder which me will be eternal.
The older I get the wiser I become but the more sinful I've been. Would it be better to have the experience of my elder self, the body of my adult self, or the innocence of my younger self? The longer I live the more I know You and seek Your face but at the same time the more I fail, the more this world wounds me, the more my eyes are opened, and I realize I am naked. Interesting how sin has a way of eroding innocence.
I wonder if my eternal self will be all three and more.
As I look back at the man behind these hands one year ago I have trouble realizing that I am that same man. I am that same boy who grew up in Wauseon, who worked in the lumber yard, who went to community college, who worked at that summer camp, who graduated from Ohio State, who made the promises, who said the things, who did the things, who treated people the way he did.
It seems each life contains many lives within it. Chapters, I suppose, in the same book. But how incredibly different each chapter can look from the previous. I wonder if David thought the same thing. He was a small shepherd boy after God's own heart. But at his last breath how much of that had he lost or how much more did he gain? The same goes for Moses: basket to royalty to shepherd to leader of Israel. The list goes on and on in fact Your word is filled with men like this whose lives contain drastically different chapters throughout.
With each step towards death I become closer to You, yet sin sticks to my feet. Please wash them Abba. June of 2012 is greater than June of 2011. I pray that You would make June of 2013 greater still Jesus. Only You know who I'll be then.