update on my life

Hi all! I have not been a faithful blogger. But I wanted to update you on some things in case you didn't already know. 


I got into seminary at Southeastern in the town of Wake Forest! That means the first year I will be doing it online and living here in Greenville, because I signed a lease before I ever thought of going to seminary. And I don't feel like backing out on good friends when that would mean they'd be responsible for paying my portion.


Everything else is pretty much the same. Off and on I have trouble with my back... please pray for that. Pray that I would be diligent about my rehab and that the core issues with my back would be resolved and corrected. I need this... I need my life back. 


I just got Alex Denning to make a blogger profile but Safari crashed and he lost it. He'll do it later. 


When it comes to being single, I'm back and forth, but I'm leaning towards content, right now. I'm more than willing to be patient if it means waiting for the right girl. Amazing all the bullcrap people feed you about "being a virgin is harmful to your psychological well-being." If I had ever had sex, especially with any of the crazies I dated, I promise you I'd be one MESSED UP kid. I had enough issues that I needed to pray through for years, even without that problem. Adding that bond to a kid who grew up clingy, and that would have made me go off the deep end. 


Anyhow. Thank you for reading! Thank you for following me on Twitter as well. I'm elated that so many of you think I'm funny. I think I am too sometimes. I just get these thoughts and I go with it. I could never be a comedian... but life is just funny sometimes, don't you agree? And I have funny friends that allowed my sense of humor to develop and take form. Thanks guys. 


Thanks for being my friends. I realize I can be critical and sarcastic sometimes. I've been confronted on it. Sometimes I'm the only one who thinks a statement is funny. I shall be more wise with my tongue next time. 


My hope is that I can be more real with everyone and live to please God, not myself. Being a suburb kid is a deadly thing. I don't want to live insulated from reality forever. In terms of my faith, let's just say that I'm very much snuggled up in my routine and that I don't really want anything major to change right now. Pray my heart is broken for my neighbors here in America that rot slowly in the dark away from the life God gives. I feel like my mission field is here. 


But anyway. Love Christ. That's all I ask. Love you guys. -G

Does man need woman to be complete?

Here's my answer to this question. A friend put this in his status and I think it's an excellent thing to dialogue about and open people's eyes to.

If the issue is what makes us "complete", as whole people, then we definitely only need God. Otherwise, "woman" would have been a co-savior with Jesus. Needless to say that's not the case. Being complete is an issue of correcting our sinful condition... not finding personal emotional fulfillment.

But since so many in this day and age confuse being in right standing with God and being personally, emotionally satisfied (which really will never happen here on earth until Christ sets things right, because we're always trying to satisfy ourselves), then yes, some of us need a woman. Some. Some can get by and subdue their passion, while others are designed for marriage. Not everyone can get along like Paul did...

I think we could say that "it's not good for man to be alone" and use the Genesis argument, but we need to pay attention to what Paul said in the New Testament. Jesus came and... kind of changed things. Because what Paul says is that there's nothing inherently bad about being single.

And basically what I mean by Jesus changing things is this... the main goal in Genesis was to populate the earth... there was no fit companion that existed for man. That was not good! So God made woman. But once Jesus came and died and rose, our main objective here on earth was not so much ONLY to multiply, but rather to spread the Gospel. So it doesn't really matter to God whether we marry or whether we go it alone. Because the point of life, now, is growing the Kingdom.

Romance is great! I'm a romantic. But it's just not the main point of us being here... it's not the thing that makes us utterly "complete".

Doing great, thanks to God

Just wanna say that God has really done so much for me this summer and I've changed a lot. I realize where I need to change and I've let go of my past relationships, which is absolutely unheard of for me. I'm learning that everything but Christ is basically crap. And that's a scriptural notion. All else is loss compared to Christ. Living is for Christ, but dying is even better, in the words of Paul. I have doubted my salvation lately, and that I'm even chosen, but I can look and see how my life has changed and how my feelings for girls don't bind me like chains anymore, so I know I'm saved. That was a miraculous difference for me.

Thanks for reading, thanks for commenting, thanks for giving me reason to keep reflecting online on what God teaches me week by week. I suck as a person, I'm messed up, I give people the cold shoulder and don't talk to some but others I just pour my time into. I'm not even going to apologize yet because that would be dishonest. I'm not sorry. But I know that Christ will change my heart and I will be sorry. And then I will seek you out and treat all of you equally instead of ignoring some and favoring others.

I just want you to think about one thing this week. And sunday is the beginning of the week, not monday. Think about this, it's based on Luke 15:26. In whatever you do, as soon as you wake up till the minute your eyes close at night, does what you're doing say that you love Christ more than anything?