Compared to last year about this time, so much has changed. I'm no longer with the guy I was with last summer, I went to college for nine months and made new friends, grew spiritually and as a person, and now it's only seven weeks until school starts again.
So you ever look back and think about how much damage you could have done to your life? Like a time where you were making bad decisions and didn't care about the outcome? It's scary to look back at those times. But at the same time, it's awesome to see how God snapped you out of that. The event, the sermon, some one's testimony, or just someone. For me it was all of those. I look back and I am so thankful for what God has done in my life. I would be in a very different place right now if He hadn't grabbed ahold of my heart and attention. He's so amazingly merciful. Who am I that He would bestow such mercy on me? I who have wronged Him and ignored Him and sinned against Him. I'm so thankful He didn't leave me to rot in my sin but took me out of the miry pit. And I'm so thankful that He still is working to shape me into His image.
I'm thankful for the friends God has put in my life that have challenged me to always do my best for the Lord. Even if I haven't talked to them in a while, even just the thought of them makes me want to do my best. And if a friend can do that, how much more should my Lord and Saviour's name do that to me?
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