Life a Weblog for Young Adults

We celebrate a God who gives us minds to think and creativity to explore. That’s what makes today’s ideas different from the norm. They don’t exist to promote the ingenuity of man or to applaud the greatness of any one individual. Instead, they are God-breathed and they are God-focused. Their origin is supernatural and their intent is His glory. You know this kind of idea. You have your own set as well.

I remember the day as clearly as if it was yesterday. I was attending a high school awards banquet for my youngest sister who was graduating, and as they were reading off the names and future plans for each over-achieving senior, a new and unfamiliar feeling suddenly overwhelmed me. The feeling was one I knew I’d eventually have, but I mistakenly assumed that it would not occur for at least another 10 years. I felt…old.

Over the past couple of years, I have realized how dangerous it is for me to be in seminary. I know, and am learning, an awful lot about the church, the Bible, and God, but none of that means anything if I do not know God Himself. My greatest temptation is to fool myself into thinking that my knowledge about God is the same thing as intimacy with God. It is not. Because of this, my constant prayer is that God will help me to know Him more, and Psalm 25:4-5 has become my daily prayer.

As a 13-year-old boy from a small town in the South, the words social injustice were two words that had no relevance to my life. In fact, the idea that many would lie down at the end of the day with an empty stomach, feeling a chill in the air and with no place to call home was foreign to me. That is what made my first trip to our nation’s capitol a life-altering experience for me—both for the social exposure I gained and the lesson I was taught concerning community as Christ intended.