A challenge to attack...

So, today I felt challenged. I'm usually one that tries to take a challenge head on since I used to just let stuff pass by. I felt like I was being challenged to be more, as our pastor put it, on the attack with my walk and less building as we've been doing. I put so much effort into "building" my faith but not as much as I should have in going on the "attack" and really putting my faith out there to challenge others. It's a weird thing for me since I normally don't like to put myself out there but lately God's been breaking me to go talk to others when He presents the chance.

The first time I noticed this was speaking with an old friend up at Tech. I was reading a book that Daniel and I were going through during a break in class and an old friend of mine walked by and asked me about it. I felt like God was calling me to talk to someone earlier that day but I had no idea that it would be him. The guy in question is Josh, a friend from my first semester at tech. It had been almost a year since I had seen him and we just sat and talked about life, and how the book was challenging me. It was a great feeling to just present my faith to him and he recieved it well.

Josh was a member of the Campus Crusade for Christ at Tech our freshman year but later left since he felt "too pushed" to accept Christ and become a Christian. But he later told me that with me he felt like I was "letting God be the one to change him." He later had to move back to North Carolina with his family due to family issues. After about a month or so of not talking to him really he emailed me and said that he was at a church and was enjoying it.

Now here comes the best part. Last night I get an email with an urgent label on it that was from Josh. I got on AIM and talked to him thinking the worse. But in reality, it was urgent cause he wanted to just run to me and be excited over some news. He had been at a service that night at his church's college group and they had a prayer session at the end of the service and he just felt God called him to pray to ask Him into his life. It brought me to tears to see this. It wasn't tears of sadness, but tears of joy. To see someone I had spent time with come to Christ was an amazing feeling. I had prayed God would lead him to being saved, even if it was not through me. I can't explain in words how happy I was for him.

So, I now will say this...if I can help one, why not help more? Christ had 12 disciples, and later called them to go make more. So, here's my line of thinking: I disciple to as many as I can humanly reach within my group of friends and such and let God work through me and reach them. Too long I tried to do it my way but I see now that with God's help, all things are possible.

Quote of the day:
"I can do all things through Him who strengthens me"- Phillipians 4:13