What's the Point/Intro!

Have you ever seen the movie "How To Save A Life?" If not, you should. It changed my view point on so many things. If you look at my motto, it's a quote from the movie: "What's the point of all this if you're not going to let it change you?" Here is a clip for that scene:


http://www.wingclips.com/movie-clips/to-save-a-life/let-this-change-you


In this movie, Jake's childhood best friend Roger Dawson kills himself. He feels like nobody cares, and like there's no reason for him to be there in the first place. Jake is devastated and hurt by what has happened, and he doesn't know what to do. He wasn't the best friend to Roger, and they hadn't talked for two years! He sought peace from so many places, and couldn't find it.


Two of my favorite Bible verses are: James 1:26-27 
26 If you claim to be religious but don’t control your tongue, you are fooling yourself, and your religion is worthless. 27 Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you.


If you've ever been on a mission trip, or a youth retreat with your church, you probably know the "mission trip high"(as my youth leader describes it as), that you have when you come home. You feel like you're going to be so close to God, and that nothing can break that! Sometimes, that actually happens, but a lot of the time you stay close to Him for a while, and then, slowly but surely, your relationship with Him begins to dwindle down into the cracks of the rest your life. There is drama going on with your friends, you can't decide what to wear to the latest party, you need to focus on school- SO many things can make your relationship with God seem less important!!! 


This is what the quote reminds me of is the mission trip high. What is the point of this if you aren't letting going to let God change you? Why can't we keep that mission trip high for just long enough to turn it into a habit? Just long enough to turn it into our very own lifestyle, and NOT a temporary change?  What if you can keep yourself up to it? Say with a "prayer partner?" Or what if you can get your whole youth group in on it! You can check yourselves multiple times every day until you don't need to be checked anymore. There has to be some way that it isn't just a high and that church and God DO change us and we LET them change us... But how?


Answer:




We LET God change us. We give into Him, and allow Him to take over our lives completely, because He is the One who created us after all, isnt He? 






-More later.