Living in the Present and Group Talk.

Therefore don't worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. -Matthew 6:34 Holman CSB

This verse in Matthew is very real to me at this time in my life. It is absolutely crazy how God is moving in my life. First He has brought me out of a dark semester, last semester and brought me to a new school and new friends. The relationships that i have built, here at EBC are absolutely incredible. He has brought many people in my life to be there as support. I have made some friends at EBC that i know will last a lifetime. I have found a variety of friends to fit every different interest that i have. Each relationship is precious to me, and each one is necessary for the building of my character, and i praise God for them. As soon as i arrived in Kitchener from Camrose Alberta, i had found a great home church to attend. I made a contact with the pastor and He has been a wonderful blessing to me since. From day one, their was a need for my spiritual gifts at the church, and i was able to apply them in just a couple of weeks attending. The church has definitely been a place where have been able to connect my spirit with God's spirit, in a corporate setting. The corporate services magnify my daily walk with Christ, a place where i have been able to worship YAHWEY without concern for what people think. In the past month or so, i have been praying about a job for the summer. I had mentioned the need for a job to my pastor and He was able to land a job for me, completely based on referral at the Waterloo airport. I needed a car for the job. My cousin living in Waterford, Ontario is selling his Grand am for a wonderful price. God provides. From there it has been blessing after blessing, all of which i don't deserve. I have been offered a few leadership roles, some in which i will accept for next semester. This semester really has been a time in which I have felt God's hand of blessing. The Matthew 6:34 verse is so real to me because; the car, job, and the leadership role are all things of the future. Now, with exams creeping up, I catch myself stressed and sometimes living in the future, making plans about these things. God calls us to plan, but He wants us to live in the here and now. It is hard to find God when your living in the future. Like CS. Lewis says that the past brings about disappointment, future apprehension, but the present is where we can experience God. The whole premise of the Matthew 6:34 verse is that we need to store-up treasures in heaven and not on earth where moths can eat and destroy. My goal today, is to not ignore God in the present, when I am so focused on an agenda or future blessings that He has given me. Those things are all things of this earth, that can just as easily be taken away as they were given.

Our group time was also a blessing. We all agreed that the topic of sex falls into the topic of honoring God with our intimate relationships. We all stressed the importance of setting relationship boundaries. We described a bit, what a healthy relationship looks like. We said it is important to have a sense of identity before entering into relationships, because then you will be able to respect each others boundaries. We began to think what our own personal boundaries looked like. We expressed and slightly debated what we thought a healthy physical dating relationship would look like. A relationship that honors God.