Yesterday (Friday) started really boring. I was in Auburn and all my friends had class (all mine were cancelled). So I just sat there all day in anticipation of me and John Baxley going to Tuscaloosa for Gamma Phi Beta formal. When he got done with class we hit the road. Formal was awesome. I went with Katy Barhydt, shes Maggie's lil. Formal is pretty much a prom, except fun. Maybe your prom was fun, but mine kind stunk. Not because of who I went with but because there was bad music no one dancing and most people left within the hour of it starting. But this was full of hang out time to go along with so much dancing. I've never danced so much before (my legs were killing me at the end of the night). But after that we went back to the sorority house to watch a movie but that idea didn't last long (it was 3:30 a.m. when we got back) and me and John left to go where we were staying the night.
Then today we got up and ate lunch with the girls and rode around trying to find a park. When we found it, it ended up being a park for campers only so it was a semi wasted trip, but we had a lot of fun on the way and had fun taking pictures next to the park we couldn't go in. And less than 24 hours after we got there, we were on the way back to Auburn.
So what has God taught me through this trip? How thankful I am for my salvation, and for my new life. At this formal there were so many drunk people. That used to be me. I could look at those people looking/acting ignorant and see what I used to be. Everywhere you either had someone stumbling around or slurring there words (on a microphone mind you) or even throwing up and I had to ask my self why. Why do they do that to themselves? Why did I ever do that? What a sick world we live in. Those people have a empty spot inside of them and, unknowingly, they want to fill it. So thats what they were doing. Filing it with beer, filling it with relationship and sexual desires. I'm so thankful for my salvation because with out Jesus coming into my life and destroying the old and replacing my with himself that would be me. I would be that guy looking dumb. I would be that guy trying to fill my self with meaningless relationships. Jesus is the author and perfecter of my faith and I'm more thankful now than ever of the salvation he offers me by no doing of my own. Because by myself I'm just another guy in the crowd, but with Jesus I know he has plans for me and know that he has in mind better for me than wasting my life doing meaningless stuff.
[11] For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
(Jeremiah 29:11 ESV)
God is the purpose of my life and I only want to know Him and make Him known.
Counting all things loss,
Timothy Mathis
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