Why am I not asleep, you ask? For the past week or so, my sleeping patterns have been totally messed up. I would start feeling kind of tired around 7:00 or 8:00 in the evening. The problem is, I'm normally still doing stuff at that time. At 10:00 or 11:00, I'm not so tired anymore.
Even if I choose to go to bed around 7:00, I will get a little sleep, but then I'll be back up at 11:00 or 12:00.
So, I don't start getting tired again until 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning.
And this is why I'm up right now. I don't know what's causing it.
Anyway, stuff is coming to my mind...
Being a Christian is difficult when many people in your own faith, and even in the same or similar type of church as you, disagree with you on so much stuff (I haven't run into this problem at Bethel, fortunately). It kind of causes you to question if you're really a Christian sometimes. In fact, if I hadn't seen the evidence that God is real and is working in my life, I probably would have given up calling myself a Christian a long time ago. But I know I have a relationship with God, and I'm not going to let people I disagree with on certain pet doctrines cause me to believe otherwise. But at the same time, I think a lot of people give up on God because of the pet doctrines we get so into, and tell people if they don't agree with our pet doctrines, then they're into false doctrine.
I'm all for sound doctrine, but we all have skewed views on what sound doctrine is. If you believe your doctrine is perfect, there are plenty of awesome people of God who will tell you otherwise.
Another thing on my mind...this is my first Christmas away from my family. I feel sad about it. I feel like I should be home with them. However, I wasn't able to get airplane tickets or anything. God could teleport me back home for Christmas. That would be awesome. I actually have a friend who is believing that God is going to teleport him home for Christmas.
There's been some other stuff on my mind. I can't even remember it all now.
Have a merry Christmas everyone!
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