preperation.

Tomorrow begins the one month countdown to my SanDiego departure day!
So I decided it would be beneficial to begin blogging about what God is doing in preparing me to leave.

Lately I have been struggling with the reality of the fact that a sad amount of people no longer think.
And even when they do, they come to conclusions that are not based on logic or tangible fact, but rather emotion (or, in some cases, lack thereof) ideals and pride.
Our generation is cursed with a form of media and society manipulation that stunts our growth as individuals and mutes our questions and doubts and leaves us dependent on material things and the approval of others, which in turn leaves us arrogant and unwilling to admit when we are wrong, and even when we can admit it, unwilling to change.
I feel especially burdened for people who lost Jesus in the thrill of this life and in the questions they found unanswered; for the people who don't make it priority to seek out the answers to the questions that turned them away from the faith they were raised up in as children.
And for people who are satisfied being complacent Christians, who would rather act like their faith is just a cool, stylish part of them, and not their whole hope, life, drive and purpose.
I'm glad Jesus gave me the desire to work out my own salvation with fear and trembling, but I'm also desperately hoping that the urgency and importance of seeking truth are soon realized amongst the youth of this lost, lost, wicked and, oh so ignorant, generation.

psalm 73:24-26, 28
"You guide me with Your counsel, and afterward You will receive me to glory. Whom have I in heaven but You? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides You. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. But for me it is good to be near God; I have made the Lord my God my refuge, that I may tell of all Your works."

That is my desire, that Jesus would be my desire, and that my life would tell of all His works, so much so that people are forced to abandon their complacency and doubt and actually take the time to come to reasonable explanation and consequently fall in love with Jesus.