Day 6

"Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall. no temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it."
Corinthians 10:12-13

This verse has lingered on my mind since Thursday because of something that was brought to the front of my mind again. My freshman year was a bit traumatic, I won't lie. It definitely helped me find my core beliefs. Despite the fact that I may not have believed in God at the time, I do think that he still believed in me, and he tested me. On Thursday, our youth pastor asked us what bothered us about our non-christian friends, and I was reminded of people who I was no longer friends with because they had drifted into the party scene, with drinking and drugs. We didn't drift apart because they partied, but rather because they placed the partying before our friendship and my morals. I would try to hang out with them, but they'd always have one party or another to go to, though they frequently invited me. I tried explaining that I didn't want to drink or do drugs, or be in at a party where it was going on, but it didn't change anything. They didn't understand that while it didn't bother me that they drank (not to say I supported it), it did to be around it happening. So after a while, we just drifted apart from each other. I can't say for sure if God was testing me, but I know that either way, it was not easy to say no to those parties, because eventually I knew that saying no to those parties was saying goodbye to those friends, but even in times since I know that he as tested me, and I can't say it any better than my Coach does during a hard practice 'You will walk out of here, the sun will rise, , you'll wake up tomorrow, and life will go on.' You just have to trust in the Lord and he will pull you through.

Mel