School - A New Day Dawns
Another day at school. Today is different. I don't know why, maybe it was because the Cashmere Christian Club (CCC) had its second meeting today at lunchtime, maybe it was due to me getting up at 6:54am and spending 40mins in prayer, maybe it can be accredited to there being no milk in my house and therefore the toast I ate for breakfast (as oppose to cereal), or maybe my anticipation of YouthAlpha (and no cooking tea tonight) got the better of me, but something was different, about me or about the day. I had people asking me if I was on drugs, my more extroverted side came out in school. I had a bit to say at CCC and I wouldn't shutup during classtime. This is not abnormal for me to talk a lot but at school I am a lot more reserved than I would care to be at youthgroup. Just because I am not so close to those friends at school as those in the Youthgroup, and because I am not so interested in sharing my ideals with them. There was a permanent smile on my face today, now i'm asking, "did someone pray for me today?" because I feel so very different and I don't know just what to accredit it to. I don't usually spend time in prayer in the morning, merely because I do not get up early enough to. I do intend to get up early every morning and spend time with God, it just rarely happens and so I end up doing my devotionals after school. People may have heard me say that I feel so much better the days I do spend time with God in prayer, and it's true, everyday I make an effort seems to be an awesome day.
I spoke to one of my friends yesterday and they told me they were listening to videos on gaining confidence. I really liked hearing how they were putting an effort into strengthening one of their weaknesses.
It was Interesting to see some other faces at CCC today than the people last week, although I was still the only Opawian. My chemistry teacher of last year was there and he sat and discussed stuff with the small group I was in. It was really weird hearing him talk about God as oppose to science, and I really enjoyed hearing his opinion on things. Part of the discussion turned to saying about how we can tell if people are Christians by watching them. I remember someone once saying to me that if you ever have to tell someone you're a Christian then you probably aren't one. Why? Because people should know from your actions. This teacher said his wife used to work in a hospital and she would generally be able to tell who the Christians were because they stuck out, there was something different about them compared to other people. My great Uncle was an abulance driver for donkey's years in Nottinghamshire, England and he would almost always be able to tell if the person who died was a Christian or not just by the look on their face. The Christians tended to have quite a serene look and others looked rather ghastly. He reconded it was because just that instant before you died you would know exactly where you were going to. The actual whole discussion was about "Who Is God?" and it was led by my mate Jordan Rimell (couple of years younger than me) who attends Cashmere New Life, and another guy (didn't catch his name). It was really good to see him take the leadership role and lead a discussion along with his friend. In that Letter to Diagnetus I posted a while back the writer talked about how Christians were to the world like the soul is to the body; in the body but not of the body; in the world but not of the world. I believe that CCC is the soul of Cashmere High School and that we will be the glue that holds it together, that makes it an awesome place to be. Because that is our responsibility as Christians. To disciple by our actions, to evangelise by what we do. Atleast that's what I think.
Youth Alpha is on tonight, and because I really enjoyed it last week I am really looking forward to it again tonight. To be honest, I'm also looking forward to eating...
I read the Word for Today about half an hour ago and I really felt like I should make a small A4 size poster of the 12 essentials to putting God's Kingdom first. So I did, and now I'm going to put it on my wall to remind myself 12 things I need to be doing 24/7/52.
I've also got a big whiteboard at the back of my room which has a week and day planner on it that I change everyday to keep me more organised. It will be there until I buy my laptop in September (also when I create a new blog for my devotionals). At the bottom of the whiteboard I have written 5 verses to remember. Some of my favourite verses in the Bible. they are:
I spoke to one of my friends yesterday and they told me they were listening to videos on gaining confidence. I really liked hearing how they were putting an effort into strengthening one of their weaknesses.
It was Interesting to see some other faces at CCC today than the people last week, although I was still the only Opawian. My chemistry teacher of last year was there and he sat and discussed stuff with the small group I was in. It was really weird hearing him talk about God as oppose to science, and I really enjoyed hearing his opinion on things. Part of the discussion turned to saying about how we can tell if people are Christians by watching them. I remember someone once saying to me that if you ever have to tell someone you're a Christian then you probably aren't one. Why? Because people should know from your actions. This teacher said his wife used to work in a hospital and she would generally be able to tell who the Christians were because they stuck out, there was something different about them compared to other people. My great Uncle was an abulance driver for donkey's years in Nottinghamshire, England and he would almost always be able to tell if the person who died was a Christian or not just by the look on their face. The Christians tended to have quite a serene look and others looked rather ghastly. He reconded it was because just that instant before you died you would know exactly where you were going to. The actual whole discussion was about "Who Is God?" and it was led by my mate Jordan Rimell (couple of years younger than me) who attends Cashmere New Life, and another guy (didn't catch his name). It was really good to see him take the leadership role and lead a discussion along with his friend. In that Letter to Diagnetus I posted a while back the writer talked about how Christians were to the world like the soul is to the body; in the body but not of the body; in the world but not of the world. I believe that CCC is the soul of Cashmere High School and that we will be the glue that holds it together, that makes it an awesome place to be. Because that is our responsibility as Christians. To disciple by our actions, to evangelise by what we do. Atleast that's what I think.
Youth Alpha is on tonight, and because I really enjoyed it last week I am really looking forward to it again tonight. To be honest, I'm also looking forward to eating...
I read the Word for Today about half an hour ago and I really felt like I should make a small A4 size poster of the 12 essentials to putting God's Kingdom first. So I did, and now I'm going to put it on my wall to remind myself 12 things I need to be doing 24/7/52.
I've also got a big whiteboard at the back of my room which has a week and day planner on it that I change everyday to keep me more organised. It will be there until I buy my laptop in September (also when I create a new blog for my devotionals). At the bottom of the whiteboard I have written 5 verses to remember. Some of my favourite verses in the Bible. they are:
- Matthew 5:14-16
- Matthew 12:34
- Psalms 34:5
- Colossians 3:14
- Song of Songs 4:1
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