2023 Update

I haven’t been uploading on here like I desire.

I’m writing this because I will be 30 years of age in a few hours and have decided to remove hinderances out of my life. I want to unabashedly live out the life God has set before me. With that said, the primary hinderances are various social media applications—mainly, Facebook and Twitter. (I have an Instagram, but I seldom open it; I still have the account because of drafted reels to encourage and inspire friends and strangers alike in the faith.) Here is my conviction:

I do not progress in the purposes Jesus has predestined in my life while I am trying to see what is going on in the world.

I do not progress in the purposes Jesus has predestined in my life while I doom-scroll through Facebook and Twitter and engage openly to reach hearts of people online, when I could fully engage openly with people directly—especially those I have met.

I do not progress in the purposes Jesus has predestined in my life when I am avoiding going out into the world to preach the gospel.

I do not progress in the purposes Jesus has predestined in my life when I spend hours and days contemplating what should and should not be done, instead of walking fully by faith [through spiritual discernment of good and evil (Hebrews 12:5 12-14)]. I need to do all that the Lord has commanded me to do and I want to do all that the Holy Spirit has inspired me to do, which includes creating scripturally-sound media to help disciple, encourage, exhort, and ultimately build up God’s household and the Lord Jesus’ flock.

I am thankful that God has established me at a Christian school to shepherd the attending students and for the fellowship and discipleship I receive while working alongside brothers and sisters in Christ. Those who do the will of the Father are my brothers and sisters. These are my true friends. I do not dismiss those who are far off but are being drawn near to God; I am observant and know that I must continue to shepherd them in truth and love as well. It really is a great honor and a great joy to go on daily adventures as the Lord works through me in my life by His Spirit. I love to meditate and think on the word and works of God. He is perfect and is my life.

With that, it’s time to make the most of the days, because they are evil and to stop being a coward. I worship the Lord Jesus, my God, and will serve Him only—no more cowardice, no more comfort, no more timidity; no more distractions.

“If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant,
does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered,
does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away.
For we know in part and we prophesy in part; but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away.
When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things.
For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known.
But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.”
‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭13‬:‭1‬-‭13‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬