An oh so awesome message.

I went to the Rock service, (this on campus church here at Mizzou) and I heard one of the best messages I've ever heard in my life so I thought I'd share the little notes I took on it. God's timing is amazing. He puts you in the perfect place to hear exactly what you need to hear, when you need to hear it. and man does God know what we need to hear!

1. The human tendency is to resist, NOT obey. It is not just Jesus that we resist but it's natural to want to do things our own way no matter what.
2. Worrying about the unknown will not change the future. Rest in God and he will grow you spiritually.
3. You can't focus on what you're thankful for and what you're worried about at the same time. Your brain physically cannot do both.
4. We can live hidden life in Christ that is sometimes hard to find or we can live what you can see, what is easy, in front of us.
5. We don't live to become righteous because we're already been made righteous.
6. Where God is pushing on you to change, those are the deceptions that we should recognize. Where you feel the least loved; Where God is the least reflective= deceptions.
7. Emotional pain is the biggest cue of where we are in our walk.

The best analogy I've ever heard:
You have two elephants in a yard. A white elephant and a brown elephant. The white elephant is all of the deception and self defeating thoughts that you want to get out of your head. The brown elephant is all that is good in your life, and mainly your spiritual life. We try and try to push the white elephant out of the yard, kicking it, pulling it's tail, pushing with all our strength, and it does not budge. Meanwhile, while we've been using all of our energy trying to push the white elephant out of the yard, the brown elephant wanders away. INSTEAD, we need to feed the brown elephant and let the white elephant starve.

Simple as that. You hear the theme of this analogy (Focus on God and everything will work itself out), but for some reason, this analogy, in these terms, is just like YES! I GET IT!! IT REALLY IS THAT EASY!

"We think we know what path is the best path for us to get to where we want to be, but God is going to give us His path for us because His is always going to be better." <3

Still journeying over here...

<3 Katie