self-centered.

update on life: so, my job starts tomorrow! i am super stoked but also super nervous! ahhh! my life is about to be change a lot once again. we all need to get used to this whole change thing because it happens very often. we all need to keep that as a note to self. so if you don't deal well with change, get over it fast! anyways, all the people at work are so nice & laid back..so ready to start working there. i have a pretty loaded week this week. work starts tomorrow & on my day off i am serving with my church around durham. [woah, i literally almost wrote hickory...] i am really excited for the opportunity to serve. serving in a church after college is one of the things i looked forward to most when i graduated from college. i am so glad that i already have this opportunity to give to others. i will be going to a house where women are placed for unplanned pregnancies where they receive counseling & other needs for their changing life ahead of them. so excited about that! soon to come: posts of my new apartment [at the end of july or beginning of august] & some posts about food because i'm going to start cooking & baking some delicious things now that i have an income :]. & of course pictures will be involved :]

church this morning was based upon being self-centered in relationships. it doesn't necessarily have to deal with a relationship or a marriage but it also can be related to our friendships as well. i learned SO MUCH from this sermon. even though pastor JD made many references to husbands&wives, i still learned a lot. it makes you realize what you need in a christian marriage & just how broken most relationships are starting off because we have to love people NOT on our terms. it also makes you realize how many things you have been doing wrong all along & that was/has been really hard to deal with for me. however, we need to apply the gospel to our relationships. we are so undeserving&unworthy of ANY love from anyone. Jesus, SO WORTHY & SO DESERVING of love gave for OUR UNWORTHY SIN. a very good friend of mine told me recently something he learned while serving in China that we need to be in a place of insignificance so that we can see where we actually stand & how good we really ARE NOT. if we live knowing this & knowing we should serve our friend/significant other/spouse in the way Jesus did, we will find so much more joy out of the whole experience. ask the Lord to come through you & help you become less about yourself & more about Him & His Will for your life [which is only a vapor].

click here to go to the web page where you can download the sermon. [i know i have some married followers, one newly married ;)] it's really great & i can go back & look at some of my notes from this sermon when the time is right.

"Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit [useless glory for yourself]. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others." Philippians 2:3-4

in His Love--