Day Uno

First blog ever...here it goes.


Today started out to the sound of my new roommate, to whom I know nothing about at all(#notmuchofatalker), rummaging through bags and the stuffing of closed-cell extruded polystryrene foam(a.k.a styrofoam) from his new printer back into its packaging.  This went on for some time until he finally got it to fit in the box-only to lead to him setting up his new printer and hearing it go through an obscene amount of diagnostics tests to ensure of its capability to perform the day-to-day operations of the standard printer.  A pretty snazzy new alarm eh?  Well it worked, except for it going off three hours before I needed it to.  So, I finally get out of bed-when I planned on-and checked my email just to see who is offering me what.  Then, something detrimentally fantastic happened.  An email from the professor of my only class on Mondays-more specifically, today being the first Monday, the first day of school-appeared in my inbox.  Lone behold was it there none other than to tell me that my only class for today has been canceled.  The detrimental part unfortunately is for her and her family for her son is very sick and was in the ER so please, everyone, PRAY for her and her family.  Anyways, so there was no class for me today so I gleefully closed the lid to my laptop and jumped in the shower(roommate is still in room).  After the daily hygiene routine, I come back to a locked dorm room.  It is great to have a roommate who locks up so our stuff is not stolen, unfortunately he did not think about me not taking my key with me to the showers.  Long story shortened, I end up in the main lobby of the dorm in my boxers only to find my roommate sitting there watching TV.  #awesomemorning. 
Moving on to the Word:
I later opened my Bible to read some passages for the day. I am currently in Romans and I read a passage from Romans 4. By this point in Romans, it is discussing righteousness and unrighteousness and the Law.  It mentions throughout Romans 2:17-29 about knowing the Law and teaching it to others but sort of being a hypocrite, you could say.  Romans 2:21"you, then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself?  You who preach against stealing, do you steal?"  The next couple of verses go through other contradictions. What I take from what this is saying is that a lot of times, we-as Christians-often times focus on sharing God's words with everyone else, that we forget to share it with ourselves.  Are we any better than those who we are trying to minister to if we don't even follow what we are teaching?  From a college student's perspective, college is a tough environment to try to minister to people.  Heck, it's a really tough environment considering all of the things going on: clubs, partying, drinking, sex, the list goes on.  With all that going on you tend to think, or at least I do, they're not going to want to listen to someone trying to tell them about living for God when they know a lot of the stuff they are doing is wrong.  But besides ministering to others, it's hard to minister yourself.  You have to deal with all of the previous mentioned things as well.  And on top of that, you don't have your parents taking you to church to make you read your Bible or anything like that.  With everything I have mentioned, you can get caught drifting, straying.  That's sort of what this blog is about.  How to stay strong in your faith no matter what environment you get in.  I am fighting this battle.  I am here, right now.  The Bible says in Romans 3:23-25 "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus."  So if you are reading this and you are a college age student or soon going to be, have as much fun as you can at college, it's supposed to be fun.  But, do not sacrifice your beliefs for fun, that's not the kind of fun you should be having.  I look forward to continuing this journey with you all.(don't worry though, it will get better, I am still getting the ropes of putting it all in writing)  Thanks.  Signing off.