"Salt and the Light" by Sent By Ravens
Hey guys, thanks again for reading. It's been a crazy summer, to put it simply. Between working thirty hours a week at the Aquarium (no complaints about that, though) and several hours a night worth of homework, the summer completely blew by me. It's just another fifteen days and I'm headed back to school for another year of excitement, intrigue, and death. Or something like that. Based on last year, it's going to be awesome.
I'm getting really excited to be back at Cedarville with all my fellow Cedarvillains (yeah, we're all that bad). I'm not sure whether it's got as much to do with starting up classes (and a whole new major) again or catching up with friends as it does getting back into chapel five times a week and getting plugged into a new church family again. I'm really looking for ways to get involved beyond just playing the piano on Sunday mornings so people can get a feel-good vibe about singing and praising, because there's so much more to it than just that.
Just acting out our lives as if we're successful and even spiritual won't cut it. We might be able to fool those around us and maybe even ourselves, but if we're all talk and no action, it's just "a burden from our tongues." Just like Paul said in 1 Corinthians 13, it doesn't matter how 'christian' we act in front of others or how many good things we can do. Unless our hearts are truly in the right place- broken and empty at the feet of Christ- it's all for nothing. It's just like the ephemeral mist over the water in the mornings: it's beautiful while it lasts, but it's gone in the blink of an eye. Our faith is only as strong as the words we speak in the truly difficult situations- when it's down to the wire and every word counts.
Is His love really you need? Or do you need the approval of others in your life too? What will you choose?
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