Well, I am new at this whole blogging thing, but I think that it will help me to sort out my thoughts and maybe share my thoughts with others. I'll start with a little background of the last few weeks of my life. I just spent two weeks in Israel and Egypt. I am so privileged to be 19 and visit the Holy Land and be able to understand new insights in the Bible. So many things have changed in my life since then. I have a new excitement for reading God's word because it is so much more alive for me! I am learning new and exciting things everyday.
I went home and attempted to give a presentation on my trip. But, it was so hard because I could not fit all of my stories and experiences. My pictures do not do justice of what I actually saw. I just wanted to get the experience of being in God's land actually was like. It was so much of the basics of life. This is something that has been pressing hard on me recently.
The basics. Reading. Writing. Arithmetic. The basics to education. If you know these then you will be just fine. The same goes for religious living and having a relationship with God. You have to have communication, an open mind, and passion about Him. This passion has left the generations coming up. They have their minds already set and are unwilling to change. These are the teens that have been in the church all their lives and still don't know how to pray or understand the importance of prayer. People always say that they are the church of the future. But this is so so wrong. They are the church of today! And that is what is scary. They do not follow the doctrines of the church. The world is influencing them and their new philosophy is "do what ever makes you happy" "it is only wrong for me if I think it is wrong for me." This is not right. This is not how God called us to live. How can I, we as a body of believers, start living a better example for them to look up to. Is it my responsibility that they don't know?
