9/15/09

Alright, what I am trying to do with this blog is create a place where you can find encouragement if you are having a bad day, or if you just want to go to a place full of love. I will do my best to put up a Bible verse every day, and if I can find one, I will put up a good quote or something else. If you want to talk about it, do. I can't promise I will answer because I am quite busy with school, but I will try. 

So living at Fairway has been a great experience so far. For those of you who don't know what I am talking about, Fairway is the co-op house I am living in at Purdue. It is a Christian house with great guys. We have our differences, which comes with communal living, but it is a constant encouragement to know that there are others who are in this fight with me. We do some crazy, fun things, but overall it has been a huge step for my faith.

"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." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong."

We all struggle. We all have hardships. But God is there through it all. When we are at our weakest, He is at his strongest. He loves us and delights in helping us get through the hardships. Because we can do anything with God by our side.