So You Want To Be Like Christ?

I hope you are shouting the answer to that question with a "YES, Hallelujah, Amen!"  Why?  Tell me one thing this world has to offer that can be better and more fulfilling (at all times) than pursuing the ONE that created you, the ONE who knit you in your mother's womb, the ONE who looks at you and says you are WONDERFULLY made, the ONE who walks with you always, the ONE that will never, I said NEVER fail you (because the world will and that includes your mom, dad, brother, best friend, husband, wife, sister, co-worker), the ONE who sent His own Son to the cross to die the most gruesome, painstaking death to take on every single sin that had been committed and would ever be committed, the ONE who created your son or daughter, the ONE who provides all your needs (to eat, sleep in a bed at night, and simply be alive) and the ONE who is preparing a place for every believer...a place that is far beyond our imagination (HEAVEN)...

Why would we not want to know HIM, be like HIM?  

Rance and I are meeting with some FUN teens once a week now and this week we met at our house on Wednesday night for our first night and let me tell you, we had a BLAST!  After we completely devoured some sketti, texas toast, milk, coffee, brownies...we started the book "So you want to be like Christ?" by Charles Swindol.  A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!  I will go into great detail about this book later but I want you to meet this sweet group...

 From left (Tacey, ME, Amber, Rance, Charleton, Hunter, Jessica & Bethany)

 BRRRRRRROOOOWWWNIESSSS & MILK :)

 A-Long & "Hunnnnerrrr" (per Rance)

 Don't know them

 My lil girl :)

"I'm just sooo...HAPPY!" 

Yes, it's starting to SNOW again!

(Thanks for taking the pictures A-Long)

I love each one of these guys/gals and I am so excited the Lord is allowing Rance and I to love on them and point them to JESUS!  I am even more thankful for their desire & hunger to not just 'be saved' but to know Him and to try to do it His way!  If only I could go back to their age and know what I know now but praise God it's never too late... 

*Hebrews 10:24-25* 

²⁴ Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works. ²⁵ And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near.