Hannah Montana, Cookie Dough, and Day 3 of A Call to Die

I am watching Hannah Montana and I just ate a huge spoonful of delicious cookie dough thinking about my third day of A Call to Die that I just completed.

Be Still- Listen to what God is saying to you.

This is phrase is at the end of each day's devotion, and it takes my breath away every time I read it. Sometimes we just need to be still, get away from all the distractions, and plug into God. That is what this whole devotion is about. I have realized that I have so much time to do other, more important things with my time, just by not going on the internet and staying off the phone after ten. Today's devotion focused on the scripture:

"Woe to me!" I cried. "I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty" Isaiah 6:5

The follow up questions asked if God has ever done to us what he did to Isiah, shown himself, which in turn caused us to see our sin and how unholy we are. I have seen God and His crazy aweosme glory. While I was at World Changers, God showed up and I saw sin in my life. Many of the friends I hang out with are not believers, and the ones that are do not live like it. My whole sophomore year I pretty much just went along, not standing out or sharing God's light with with. I have tried before, but pretty much given up. My words will not affect this group, but my life will. That is what God showed me at W.C. He convicted me, and I realized that I had not been an example to my friends, at least not the one I wanted to be. I also had some apologizing to do. One of my friends hurt me a lot this past year. She has pretty much lost all my respect and I have finally realized that I do not want to be part a friendship that is gaining nothing on both sides, except for hurt. I figured that since she had hurt me, that she had no right to my compassion or friendship, or help as a Christian sister. God convicted me. I may not want to be this girls friend anymore, but I should have been there, as a Christian, for her. She had fallen greatly in her walk with God, and I should have been with her to help pick her back up. Since she had hurt me though, I didn't think she derserved my help. Jesus loved and helped everyone, whether they deserved it or not. God convicted me of this, and made me realize that I needed to, if not be her friend, apologize for not being there and pray for her. I still haven't apologized. I am going to pray about it, and I will, as soon as I'm ready, or I should say, as soon as God thinks I'm ready. So when one of the questions asked if you had ever felt "ruined" like Isiah had, my answer was yes. I realized then, at World Changers, just how big God is. God forgave me, and healed me after being ruined. That is why He is so amazing. He will show himself to you in some totally unexpected way, ruin you by showing how you have fallen short, then heal you. I pray that God will show himself to you, and that you will let him root out the sin in your life, and be changed.