Day 6

Kayla- 


We had a really nice weekend. I kind of forgot to read on Sunday, so I made up for it tonight. :) 


I love ALL of what we read in Luke Chapter 8 today. It's really hard for me to pick something out and then write about it, when I really just want to tell you to just GO READ IT :). I think bearing good fruit it something we all need to think about in our daily walks with God. We can walk the walk and talk the talk, but if there isn't a real change in our lives, if there isn't an authentic worship, and genuine love and gratefulness for Christ, then I don't believe our lives will bear good fruit. And it all starts with the condition of our hearts which is the "soil" where God is planing a seed....is that seed going to grow or not? In talking about bearing good fruit, it is a great reminder that the life I live isn't for me at all, first its for Christ and then it's for you, to love Christ and you, to serve Him and you. And if my life is bearing good fruit then the words of my mouth and the works of my hands are pleasing and good to God, if God's Word and love can grow in me and then come out through me, as a means of being God's hands and feet, then the fruit I am bearing is good, holy, fruit. It's nourishing someone else and glorifying God. And that is really what I want my life to be about, loving God, letting Him fill me, and then sharing that same love I know with others. Letting God mold my life and not having "bad" fruit, or no fruit of all, but letting all I do be to His glory and honor. 




I'm sleepy today :) but have so much to be thankful for, that it's worth being a little sleepy every now and then :). 
Blessings. 

Derrick
 I spent the whole weekend with Kayla and had a great time (wearing the comfy socks now) :)


     Today what stuck out in Luke was the Parable of the lamp, I've really been struggling recently with being transparent to others, showing that i have faith in the workplace, just over a year ago i would play my vulgar music really really loud and wouldn't care about others hearing it, i wanted to preach my agenda that God doesn't care about us.


     Let me just say that my music tastes have changed since becoming a Christian, I no longer want to hear Eminem's words and images, they stuck in my head for way to long and now i am renewing my mind, daily, with music, prayer and God's word. I was playing some Lecrae, (Christian Rap) at work and one of the girls who professes to be a Christian says she doesn't like christian rap cuz she can't dance to it the way you can dance to the secular rap, because its "Jesus Music," i told her about my past favorite artists and how i didn't even like them anymore because they are really preaching their own agenda, the agenda that there is nothing better than now, there is no afterlife, so enjoy life now and do whatever you want... this agenda (which was mine for so long) doesn't appeal to me any longer, I want to be in God's will and that means to me right now to keep the media that would be displeasing to God out of my house and head, I'm convicted to burn dvd collection from the past i tried selling it and most of them didn't sell, and one that did i would never want anyone to watch, so here is my application to letting my light shine, its to get rid of the stuff in my life that would be unpleasing to Christ...