Jason’s Blog

there are only a few days of masters left and i am cramming trying to get all the work done that i should have been doing for the past few weeks, but decided to put off till the end. anyone i am getting a lot of it done which is cool but there is still some stuff like reading the rest of the pursuit of God and doing the book report and worksheets. i really wish that i would have started earlier but its cool. i still have to do scriptures but i think i can handle that. also i had to go to my school today which was really stupid. i had to sit in the auditorium for about 30 minutes and then finally i got to go up pay for my class and get my picture. i think that it was stupid but whatever. i also learned that school starts 15 minutes earlier and they cut lunch down to 30 min and made some of the classes longer. that made me mad but whatever. i don’t want school to start but its going to be a lot better that last year so thats cool i guess. anyway time to get back to work.

matthew 6:1-4 it says, “Take heed that you do not do your charitable deeds before men, to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward from your Father in heaven. Therefore, when you do a charitable deed, do not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory from men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. But when you do a charitable deed, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, that your charitable deed may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will Himself reward you openly.” i really like this verse because i feel that so many times we do things and after we want to tell others about it to make us feel better or make us feel good about the deed that we did, but God tells that when we do things to do them in secret and God will reward us. i feel that this is a hard thing to do because in todays society we see others receiving things form men, but God tells us that if we do things in secret we’ll be rewarded by him and that is so much better because gifts from God will last so much longer than gifts from men.

today in core values Roy spoke and it was a really good class. he spoke on doing things to fulfill the purpose that God has put in our lives. A good point that he made was that we need to surround ourselves with people that believe in us that we can fulfill the purpose that god has called us to. that was a cool point because not only should we be surrounded by those type of people, but we need to be those type of people to others and believe in them that they can do what God has called them to do. when i thought about that it was really cool because i thought of it as get around good people, but God would also want us to be the good people for others, because God wants us to serve others not just ourselves. Roy also spoke a lot more, thats just a little bit of what i got out of the class today that i wanted to share.

i am not very good at being a patient person. today i went to the dentists and it took forever. we got there at 1:30 and we left at 4:30. it was ridiculous. i was waiting for random long amounts of time just waiting for something to happen. first they did something to my little brothers teeth and them mine and then his again. after that i thought that we were finally done, but then they went back and did more with my teeth. it was so stupid. i spent more time waiting then i did actually getting stuff done. after we finally left i thought that it was going to get better but i was wrong. i had to be patient for a little longer because on the way home we got stuck in traffic, and other than stupid drivers, traffic is the thing i hate most about driving. i can not stand being stuck in traffic, i don’t know why, i just can’t. once i got home it was all better but i realized that i am not a patient person but that goes along with what regan spoke about, self control. i need to control my feelings and not let waiting and traffic bother me.

i was reading Daniel earlier and the thing that i kept thinking about discipline. For example,Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego showed their obedience and discipline to god when they refused to bow down to the statue and because of that they were thrown into the furnace, but they still remained faithful to God and because they had disciplined themselves to do the right thing, Jesus came and rescued them. that made me think about how we as Christians need to discipline ourselves to do the things of God, and when the time comes and that trial hits us, we will have disciplined ourselves to do the right thing and God will reward us for doing that.

on saturday we got back from mexico and it was a really cool trip. i liked it a lot and had a lot of fun. i learned a lot on the trip like never giving up. we played soccer every night and it was good but to be honest a pretty much sucked but i never gave up and tried harder to be better. it reminded me of my walk with God because although i screw up so much God is always waiting there for me to get up and try again. i also learned that we don’t need to speak a word to someone to minister to them. there was a language barrier but while playing soccer i felt that we were setting an example to them by our actions and how we played. if we would have given up and wined every time that we lost we would have set a bad example and no one would want to have what we have, but because we came out every night and gave our best and tried, i feel that that set an example of how we act and are as christians.

i am reading the heavenly man and it is such a good book. this guy is seriously crazy and legit! over and over again this guy is told by god to go to different villages and preach to them, and after preaching he is always arrested and beaten like crazy, but God being amazing always rescues him from everything and then has him go do it again in a different village. this just makes me think how pathetic i am as a Christian because if god called me to go somewhere where i would be sleeping outside in the freezing cold and running from the law just to end up getting beaten i wouldn’t do that. but this is what God called him to do and he was being obedient to God and God totally helps him out because of it.

one night as i was studying scriptures i looked over and looked at my lava lamp. one thing that i noticed was that although all the “bubbles” or whatever they are that go up and down, as they hit each other they never changed. that got me thinking about us as humans, we come in contact with others that do not know Jesus every day but do we try to change them or do we just pass by and say nothing. do we do what we are called to do or not? that’s just a little bit of what i was thinking about.

i have not written in a while, although i have done a lot this summer. masters started and i am excited for that. this summer is going to be great. camp was really great and i enjoyed it a lot. Richardo had some good messages and the praise and worship was amazing. after that we had the Vallejo outreach and mega sports camp. both of those were good and i especially liked the trip because we were always eating and doing nothing. on the way back from Vallejo i met up with my cousins and i stayed with them for about a week. i had a lot of fun with them going to the beach, water and amusement parks. it feels so good to be back home after three weeks. its time to settle back on and catch back up on masters work.

i am super excited that there is only 1 more full day and then 2 half days until summer break. i can not explain how ready i am to be done. every day that goes by i seem to hate school more and more. this summer is going to be sick.