So, this really doesn't have a title. But, recently, I have been really thinking a lot about my walk with the Lord and where I am in my Christian life. This has come about because of a Sunday school lesson several weeks ago at church. Last night, I had a really good chat with my best friend about some things that I have been struggling with. Then this moring, I was getting a file folder out of  my desk and found a single piece of paper in it--something I thought I had thrown away when I was going through my college note this past summer. Amazing how the Lord works, because right now what I had found could be in the city dump by now.

I wrote a lot of college notes, sermon notes, and lesson notes in college--but this one paper I found is titled "Knowing God", from my Principles of Leadership class (a class I do not remember taking), on April 7, 2005. Here are my notes:

Jeremiah 9:23-24 23 Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:24 But let him that gloriethglory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exerciselovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight , saith the LORD."

There are two kinds of life:
1) A life that disguts God
2) A life that delights God

The Immediate Context: Three pronouncements of "Thus saith the Lord" (in Jeremiah 17-24)

The People's Disobedience:

• Jer 8:7 "My people know no the rules of the Lord."
• Jer 9:3 "They do not know me."
• Jer 9:6 "They refuse to know me."

Life that disgusts God:
1) Glory in intellect
2) Glory in physical strength
3) Glory in material prosperity


How often to I step away from life's distractions and work on a relationship w/ God.
(going to come back to this in a minutes)

Life that delights God
1) Understanding God: learning abut Him on an intellectual level

God tells us that He is a God of lovingkindness, jusitce, and rightousness

NOW back to the quote in red "How often do I step away from life's distractions and work on a relationship w/God."

I tend to be a very dsitracted individual. I mean seriously I love cooking and baking (hate the cleaning up part of it), I watch ALOT of stuff on netflix, facebook, email, text messaging, talking on the phone, watching TV....must I go on.

But once I think about it I really do not step away from life's distractions as often as I should...sadly. I tend to do other things that work on my relationship with God...

(more to come later)