Just today

As well all know, this is a day that a lot of people tend to wait for in every year. They save their money, and make sure that they don't have any chance of losing it until today, because they just want to use it on something
The only problem with this, is that something very many times leads to a destructive life. It leads to many bad choices, and also broken relationships.

The something I'm talking about, if you haven't already guessed, is weed.

Now I won't be the guy to deny he's done this stuff. I used to be someone who looked forward to a weekend, just because I was going to be able to get high and forget everything about the week. I used to hang out with people, just for the sake of them having some weed that I could smoke with them. Isn't that a really bad way to say someone is your friend? If the person that I was hanging out with didn't have any, I would look to the next person who would have it.

This is not good. I based my friendships on this, and needless to say, 95% of the people that I smoked weed with back then, are not my friends anymore. Not because of the fact that they smoke, it's just we've drifted since I quit smoking, and I moved among other things. The biggest problem was that the relationship was based wholly on weed. Something that doesn't love me back. Something that doesn't give me complete life. The only friends I still have that do it, are people that I rarely talk to, because all they talk about is the fact that they were the last people I ever smoked with.

I don't like knowing that I used to be the kid who looked forward to this day. I hate the fact that I was having my relationships come from something other than a God that doesn't leave me. A God that loves me wholly. A God that no matter how much we mess up, loves us. Unconditionally. A God that will save me time and time again, and a God that suffered death, even death on a cross.

At the same time though, I wouldn't have traded any of those days, for 100 years the other way. Those days made me into who I am now, and even though they aren't the proudest moments in my life, they have built a story, that I can tell to people, that may actually be a thing that changes their lives. It has given me a testimony about how Christ has saved me from myself. It's given me the ability to be able to tell people that I have been on the other side of the tracks. I have messed up, and I lived away from God, but God still came out and saved me.

As a testimony to the King, even though this is one of the most dreaded days of the year for me, I can honestly say that there isn't a better reminder to myself, and hopefully many other people that the Lord has brought out of that life, that this is reality. People are going to smoke weed today. People are going to continue to throw their lives away. People are broken. As Jesus' disciples, we must ask ourselves a very important question


The question we must ask ourselves is the same question Jesus asked Peter. "Do you love me?" We need to ask ourselves if we really love Jesus. Because the next thing Jesus says after Peter says "Yes, Lord, you know that I love you", is "Feed my sheep" Well, this seems like a weird request. Asking someone to feed your sheep just because they love you seems kind of manipulative.

Feeding Jesus's sheep doens't have anything to do with physical food though. It doens't even have to do with legitmate sheep. Jesus's sheep, are the people in this world who have not gotten a chance to hear the gospel. They are the people we go through life with every single day. They are the people that we see at school every single day. The people that we know just need life. Feeding them is letting them hear the gospel. Teaching them that there is more out there, and the fact they they were made for more. We need to ask ourselves if we really love Jesus, and then we need to go and teach the gospel.

Christ gives us this command as clear as can be in Matthew 28:19-20 by saying "Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you, and surely I will be with you, always. Even to the end of the age." He tells us to do this, but we can't do this unless we really do love Him. Because our love for Him will become and overflow that allows us to run after our friends who don't have a relationship with Him.

So I hope that even though today isn't a day known for Christ, that Christ would still be evident for you

I love you guys
TJ