Paul: "To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." 2 Corinthians 12:7-9
I have to say... googling that verse brought me to a pretty cool blog.. (http://stufffchristianslike.blogspot.com)
I was searching for the verse because I have been reading this book called "Moral Earth Quakes and Secret Faults" In this book is uses fault lines and disasterous earth quakes and compares it to how people think that their "little sin" can go unnoticed or how they can keep sinning as long and the are careful.. but as the book says.. the small faults over time can cause catastrophic damage ..in this case to your life this verse stood out to me because here is paul.. an apostle struggling with something he knows he cant overcome ..I know I personally have a thorn.. I feel I can usually pretend its not there until it starts to press and make itself known.. not in a paining way but it has that aspect of the piercing calling it has..just when I think I have it under control the thorn comes back it seems harder to ignore.. .. but like the end of the verse says "But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness"... thats God talking to paul... let me go through this.. ok we know the definition of grace is "given something we dont deserve" so God says the strength I give you is sufficient to over come the trial.. then God says.. my power is made perfect in weakeness.. I take that as.. we are nothing without God..in everything let God lead and it will come through... according to Gods will of course.. sometimes the thorn wont be removed until we get to heaven..but God will be there every step of the way.. (this is mainly a reminder to myself)
Today was .... boring.. haha.. I woke up but did nothing.. my phone kept getting texts and that didnt allow me to fall back asleep so I started watching tv.. I didnt pay attention to what I was watching until I seen an actress I recognized.. it was a girl from one of my favorite movies "superstar".. .. oh the movie was "Nancy Drew".. haha i know right .. I finally decided I was done being lazy so I got up to shower .. I then searched everywhere for my earphones until it dawned on me that my bother took them by stupid mistake even though his are new and mine practically cut the lobe of your ear.. I ate lunch and ran some errands.. I was in like at the post office when i noticed the time.. it was 1:50 .. I remembered that my niece had detention and I needed to pick my nephew up .. I hurried home and headed off to get him.. the office attendants made me feel bad that I didnt know my niece and nephews teachers or room numbers.. but they pointed out my nephews teacher among the sea of children and teachers.. as I was walking I seen my nephew I stood there watching to see if he would notice me.. I heard a teacher and realized I probably looked like some pedophile.. he finally saw me and responded with his usual "what the heck".(he gets that from me).. haha... I said hi to his teacher and introduced myself .. me and my nephew headed back to my house.. he filled me in on his day and then asked to play a game on my Ipod.. time passed and I got a call from my cousin .. he wanted to know if he could ride with is to church .. I was happy he was interested and said of course.. he got here with my aunt and she was the kids ride back to sanger.. so they left .. me and my cousin caught up and left to church early we met up with moises who I still dont know why he was there early.. but we sat and talked.. then we were laughing about this lady that came up to us and felt our hair and told us we were handsome.. it was funny.. before I knew it.. it was time for class.. we all went our separate ways ... as I sat in my class I tried to be more attentive.. unfortunately we arent on a super interesting topic so I kept zoning out .. class was over and that mean the usual chatting outside so I headed out .. our class was out earliest as usual.. but after a few minutes the patio area was loud and people everywhere.. I talked to who I could and then hurried home.. I then watched tv and started thinking about how close the Quincenera is and what I needed to do by then.. as I headed to take my nightly shower I mapped out my plans in my head and made a goal..now its time for sleep.. Good Dreams to everyone... Good night :D
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