You are more

As many of the people who read this know, Tenth Avenue North recently came out with a song called "You Are More". I really think that this is another song that really speaks the message of Christ to me personally. I haven't really ever said this, but I have a harder time hearing Christ's message to me from just a person talking in front of a room. Especially if that person is older than me. I have a really hard time with really getting the point of each and every talk. Even if I do write things down, sometimes I can't seem to wrap my head around what was said. This can mean a number of things, but I think that for me personally, it shows me that I learn many things better in different ways.

Music seems to be a way that I learn things a lot easier. Another example that doesn't really involve Christ at all is, I wouldn't know all the states of the USA if it weren't for a song that I had to sing in fifth grade. Since I was made to sing that song many times, I eventually memorized every state because I said them over, and over, and over, and over again.

With the message of Christ, it seems that I learn many things from listening to worship music. Though many songs are based off of the fact that Jesus died for us, the other songs that have the other messages that Christ has really teaches me a lot of things that I don't think I could really grasp if it weren't for those songs being written. This is not the only way I learn, because there are times that I do learn by reading, or writing things down. This way just seems easier, and in a sense, more fun.

While reading never really possesses any essense of fun, that is why I am glad there are other ways that I can hear the message of Christ, through things like YoungLife, and other bible studies that I do, or have done. For some reason, I can't help but to have some fun when we're reading through a passage, or even somewhere in the Old Testament, because in all reality, I am like very many other people in the sense that I would much rather just have the New Testament and not worry about the Old Testament because it doesn't have the laws in there, and it doesn't have very many other things. In other words, I find much of the Old Testament boring.

Though I know that I am not the only one who thinks this way, I know that the Old Testament is just as important as the New Testament. There is too much valuable information that I can gain out of reading the Old Testament, and that is why I want to go over it in the bible studies that I am doing, because I know that with the help of all of my friends going through this stuff with me, I can keep my head straight, and listen to what I need to hear. All I can ask is that Christ would lead me to want to hear this, and not just the gospels and all of the New Testament.

That's all for now. This class is about to end, and I won't remember it later.

Wow, this went way off topic......

I love you guys,
TJ