Top Five...

So I've been wanting to do this forever just because i love this stuff...I was probably the only person in the world who enjoyed doing those stupid forwards of surveys so anyways...Here are my top fives...of everything!!

Top Five Christian CD's:

1. Conversations: Sara Groves...seriously get it...it will change your life

2. We are Alive: Elevation Worship...i mean really these guys are amazing just like the CHURCH!!!

3. Share The Well: Caedmon's Call

4. Pages: Shane And Shane

5. Purest Place: Watermark

Top Five Books:

1. In a Pit With a Lion on a Snowy Day-Mark Batterson

2. Captivating-John and Stasi Elderidge

3. Let the Nations Be Glad-John Piper

4. A Chance to Die-Elizabeth Elliot

5. Terrify No More

Top Five Most Influential People in my Life (besides Jesus)

1. Bradelyn Levi/ Nana  (they have to tie because of nana's never ending love and Bradelyn loves and knows me better than anyone!)

2. Stephen Furtick

3. Cathy and Mark Lewis

4. Erica Long

5. Samantha and Toph Elkins

Top Five Favorite Activities:

1. Traveling

2. Talking over coffee with my favorite people

3. Reading

4. Movies

5. shh...but i secretly do like hiking once i'm doing it!

Top Five Movies:

1. Hairspray

2. High School Musical

3. Harry Potter

4. When Harry Met Sally

5. She's the Man

 

Let's see...how bout we play tag since ya'll are probably the only two who reads this!....Bradelyn and Stefanie...why don't ya'll post the same!

I will be who I will be

Being in seminary is a crazy life to say the least...I feel like I have grown up so quickly in the 3 short weeks I have been here.  I know that I'm where I should be, but I struggle sometimes if I am capable of doing this...I feel like the last kid to get picked for the softball team or the runt of the bunch.  But the other day in my Old Testament class, my professor said something that really made an impact on me.  We are in the book of Exodus and we were talking about the passage where God reveals His name to Moses.  There are so many suggested translation of that phase...mine says I am who I am, some others say I am that I am, or I am the self-sufficient one...But Dr. Thomas said that the best way to understand it is "I will be who I will be"...You see God was talking to Moses about who he should tell the Israelites sent him.  The I am who I am or the I am the self-sufficient one does not seem to fit the context.  This almost sounds like "Why do ask such a question...I am who I am..."  The Israelites have already seen God as self-existing...they understand that He doesn't need them...He is their creator...They know He is God Almighty...But the "I will be who I will be" is a new way of God revealing Himself to His people...I will be who I will be can be completed with..."I will be whoever I need to be to accomplish my purpose."  How amazing that God will be whoever He needs to be to accomplish His will for my life?  It's not who I am. It's who He is!  He will complete this work in me...He will teach me what I need to know...He will give me the strength to make it to the other side...He will be who He needs to be!  We put so much pressure on ourselves to accomplish the plan for our lives...but God Himself design that plan and as Mark Batterson says "He wants us to get there worse than we want to get there!"  So hang on...Cause He will be who He needs to be!!!!