Lessons from Paul

y’a’ve been feeling really depressed lately, especially during the break, but I was talking to Dr. Catanzaro today and he reminded me that Paul wasn’t concerned with whether or not he was happy or sad but just that he was being obedient to God. Y’all that made me think.  Instead of thinking about how I feel all the time and focusing on self I should be focusing on obeying Christ and whether or not my life brings glory to God.   Y’all it’s easy to worry about the future and where we will be or what we will be doing in the future.  When you graduate from college or seminary people expect you to have a job.  We can’t worry about what other people think.  Dr. Catanzaro deminddd me that maybe it doesn’t necessarily matter what you are going to do in the future.  Maybe all that matters is that you are obedient and following Christ in this moment.  If we wake up every day asking ourselves how we can please God today then we will be doing good.  Nobody knows the future.  It could be really bad or it could be really good but all that matters is that we are glorifying God in this moment and that we are being obedient to Him.

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