Jason:
We have connection to the world! This week was pretty amazing as a
morale booster because we managed to buy our own Wifi connection in our
tents! So now we all can send
messages home from the comfort of our own bed, at any hour of the night that we
please…so long as your laptop screen is not too bright to keep up your
neighbor, ha. It has been so great
being able to send messages to Melissa now right when I wake up in the morning,
before I go to bed, and anytime in between so long as we are off work. It has helped our distance relationship
tremendously, and now we can joke around and be each other’s silly best friends
again. Before, it was always brief
emails about how’s your day, how did you sleep, etc. Now we have the time to dive in deep with our email
messages, and we have grown and learned so much more about each other this week
than the past three months!
Communication is an amazing thing.
Obviously with having the luxury of Wifi in my bed I have
spent more time surfing the web, and looking more into life around the
world. It has been great, but I
have found myself very distracted more now, and my reading of books and
listening to music has dwindled down this week. Not to say I have done none, because the Lord sent me toward
an excellent passage today.
1 Corinthians 7:32-35 reads;
“I want you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious about the
things of the Lord, how to please the Lord. But the married man is anxious about worldly things, how to
please his wife, and his interest are divided. And the unmarried or betrothed woman is anxious about the
things of the Lord, how to be holy in body and spirit. But the married woman is anxious about
worldly things, how to please her husband. I say this for your own benefit, not to lay any restraint
upon you, but to promote good order and to secure your undivided devotion to
the Lord.”
There are definitely advantages and disadvantages of
being married, or unmarried, and I wouldn’t change my Facebook status for
anything!!! But the importance of
this passage to me is being reminded of the most important thing in our lives,
our relationship and communication with the Jesus. I challenge you to pray that you are not too distracted,
anxious, and divided with other stuff that you push your devotion time
away. My song to go along
with this is from 1997, titled “I Wanna Be There” by Blessid Union of
Souls. I believe this song was
written as one person wanting to be there for their loved one, but if you
listen to the words you can easily imagine its Jesus singing to us! “You wouldn’t know that I was there, cause
I have been there all the time, and if I had my way, I’d hold you in my arms, leave
this madness all behind.” How
true, we do such a good job of pushing the Lord away when we are distracted and
anxious about other things in life.
It’s so comforting and praiseworthy to be reminded that Jesus would sing
to us, “Im gonna be your lover, gonna be your friend, gonna be there till the
end.” I love my wife more now than
when we first said “I do.”
However, let’s all work on loving the Lord more now than when we first
said “Jesus be the savior of my sins, and accept me into your Kingdom.”
Enjoy the song, it’s what I have enjoyed all week.
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