Today is a lazy sort of day....

All rainy and cloudy and coldish. I like days like today. I want to get some hot chocolate and a big blanket and curl up with a good book.

Well, today, it was cappucino (mmm) and a old long sleeve college shirt while cleaning my room. I went through a lot of old things. Letters, old stories, some poems, magazines, all that jazz. I had a lot of time to think and reflect on this summer (because most of the junk in my room has accumulated over the last two months or so).

I thought mostly about my conversation way long time ago with Nathan and Mr. Hooks. We talked about why there were so many more conversions to Christ in the early church. Not that the church today isn't growing, but sometimes, it does seem stagnant.

Mr. Hooks said that he thinks the reason they had so much courage in the early church, and why they were so outgoing about their faith, was how they looked at the return of Christ. They looked at it as imminent, it could happen at any moment. They felt that they were limited in their time that they had to share the love of Christ with others. It was like 'save as many as you can.'

I think that we look at the history of the church and go, he hasn't come for 2000 years, he sure isn't coming anytime soon. But that simply isn't true. He could come at any moment, he could even come before you finish reading this sentence. Well, so He didn't. But the thing is, you don't know when he is coming, and you don't know how much time you have. So use it all. Stop worrying about the things of today and tomorrow. I spend sooo much time thinking about my future, what am I going to name my kids? (I love the name Charlotte) where might I retire? (certainly not Littleton! lol). I need to focus on today, and who I can tell about God's love, right now.

Which is a scary thought, when you think about it. I don't want to go to school on Thursday and jump into to telling Becca and Kels about God. That's terrifying. But I need to stop putting it off. Afterall, if Jesus comes back on Friday, I missed my only chance to tell them about him.

He's coming, we just don't know when. And we can't waste a single minute. There are people out there that are dying for him, they have to be told before time runs out.

Save as many as you can.


Totsiens,
sara