A Letter to my Friends Back Home...
you are like my brothers and sisters, and as my family i will protect you against anything and everything i can. and im telling you right now, relationships are not worth it now. God has so much more for you than a girl or a guy and i know that we are the same in the way that we feel like we NEED the attention from somebody to feel happy and like we're loved. everyone feels that. its something ive been working on and something ive wanted to share with you for a long time.
im scared for you.
i love you as my family in Christ and God loves you so much more than you know. and i have been having nightmares while ive been here about each of you back home that i cant just ignore. i dont know if God is speaking to me through dreams or what, but He has put you all on my heart so much and all my thoughts and prayers have been directed at you all. i am so homesick but ONLY because i know that there are going to be such hard things in your lives and i can already see the distractions in everyones lives. everything we have prayed against in the summer is coming up now and you are all being blinded by the beauty of it on the outside. keep God first in EVERYTHING you do. He is the ONLY thing that matters in this life and the things of this world(including the people) will only keep you happy for so long before they hurt you or leave you or bring you down and away from what is right. im not saying everyone is out to get you, but the world DEFINATLY is.
my heart is so broken for this world. i cannot help but cry as i write this to you and think about everything that we can have and will have through Christ if we only choose to love Him. im sorry ive done so horribly at keeping in touch. ive been bombarded with so many emotions and thoughts being here for only a week now.
my heart breaks for the people, the leadership, the families, the children, the elderly, the single parents, the hurting, the rich, the poor and for YOU. because i know there is so much more that we are not understanding and soaking in that God longs so desperately for us to know.
PLEASE. i beg you with everything in me, do NOT let this broken world be the influence on your life. let Jesus Christ lead you every day and be the change in the world that you want to see. let him mold your heart and conform to His thoughts. He knows best in EVERY situation.
from class this morning a guy named David spoke to us about Adam and Eve. what did they do? they disobeyed against God when He told them to have anything and everything they wanted except for ONE tree. when they were fooled by the devil and sinned, God asked them to leave the garden but not before He clothed them and told them that He loved them and cursed the serpent that had taken His children's attention off of Him. He DID NOT take them out of the garden as PUNISHMENT. it was because the tree that they had been able to eat from was the tree of life and God knew that if they stayed in the garden after sin had been introduced that they would live forever in sin and there would be no chance of redemption. by separating them, he gave them the opportunity to come back to Him and trust in HIM alone to redeem them.
that is all God wants to do. trust it and live it.
i love you, and i miss you.
your sister in Christ,
jordan
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