Every season is God’s season, but summer has a special power.
Jesus Christ is refreshing, but flight from him into Christless leisure makes the soul parched. At first it may feel like freedom and fun to skimp on prayer and neglect the Word, but then we pay: shallowness, powerlessness, vulnerability to sin, preoccupation with trifles, superficial relationships, and a frightening loss of interest in worship and the things of the Spirit.
Don’t let summer make your soul shrivel. God made summer as a foretaste of heaven, not a substitute. If the mailman brings you a love letter from your fiancé, don’t fall in love with the mailman. That’s what summer is: God’s messenger with a sun-soaked, tree-green, flower-blooming, lake-glistening letter of love to show us what he is planning for us in the age to come — “things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, and which have not entered the heart of man, all that God has prepared for those who love him” (1 Corinthians 2:9). Don’t fall in love with the video preview and find yourself unable to love the coming reality.
Jesus Christ is the refreshing center of summer. He is preeminent in all things (Colossians 1:18), including vacations, picnics, softball, long walks, and cookouts. He invites us in the summer: “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28). This is serious summer refreshment.
Do we want it? That is the question.
Christ gives himself to us in proportion to how much we want his refreshment. “You will seek me and find me; when you seek me with all your heart” (Jeremiah 29:13, RSV). One of the reasons to give the Lord special attention in the summer is to say to him, “We want all your refreshment. We really want it.”
currently it’s:
74 degrees; dover, de
52 degrees; oakland, ca
WHAT THE HECK… -____-;;
i’m over here reading all of your facebook statuses about how hot it is over there, and here i am freezing to death. seriously blows my mind. lololol. -_-;;
Asked by Anonymous
lolol you’re welcome. you’ll hate this one soon too, though.
Asked by Anonymous
… o______0… mor….gan….? o_0;; these are becoming harder to tell…
I hate taking pictures with p&s now… So much noise and I can’t make it stoppppppp T_T;; And the macro isn’t as clear as it was before… :(. Maybe my camera is just getting old… ~5 years of use! :O.
I made these a long long time ago and just came across them :D. Such a fail of a pororo… xD. This was so much harder than I thought it would be… So I just ended up making like four poops because poop is easy to make hahaha :D. I still have so much clay… I need to use it all up before I clear out of my room D:!
(queued)
& it’s pretty cool :). My house is all empty now! Not really though… The movers were absolute idiots! They took some of the things we told them not to take and didn’t pack some of the things we needed. Now I have to ship a few things back to Delaware before school starts -_-;; And no internet so I have to steal from neighbors HAHAHA… I forgot how slow internet can be… It literally takes 1 full minute for each page to load that I’m afraid to log on to aim and oovoo in fear of what it might do to my computer >_<;;
Life’s gonna be fun these next three days without furniture, the annoying phone ringing nonstop, washer&dryer, tv, etc.
Asked by Anonymous
i have camera for you to use! … unless… you are not morgan… o_0;;