Day 9 Church, Taco Bell, and Super Bowl

Today was a great day at church, I really had one of the best times of worship I have had in a while, it was also a great opportunity to tell God how much I love Him. The pastor started a new series in Songs of Solomon giving biblical advice and applications concerning courtship, marriage, and our relationship with Jesus as our Groom. I learned about how his kisses are intoxicating, his character is fragrant, and his communion is intimate. It is sometimes uncomfortable to think of God as a lover, like a romantic lover, but he did create it after all. He even relates the coming of Jesus to the picture of a wedding where the church, his bride, will be presented to her groom, Jesus. God wants us to be intimate and close to Him, but we must be willing to receive his love we have to be face to face not having our back turned. I also learned that the Song of Solomon was read every year at Passover in Jewish tradition, which was a day of remembering God's deliverance from enslavement to the Egyptians.

Afterwards I went to Taco Bell and had another awesome discussion with my friend about life and just shared what God was teaching us. I was also able to encourage Him about getting himself prepared not only for employment, but also for marriage. If you think about what kind of person he would want for a daughter of his to marry, that should be the same standard to hold for himself. We also found out that we were both reading in the exact same place in the Bible. Of course this is after we had been reciting verses to each other that God had been speaking into our lives recently and recognizing that God had been showing us the same things because we were reading in the same book. We had a good laugh afterwards and praised God that he orchestrated it that way.

Later that night I went to a Super Bowl party at the church and it was really fun. It was cool that they blacked out the advertisements and played christian music videos during the breaks. For half-time we saw the testimonies of three football players who all had superbowl rings, but considered Christ more precious than any thing else. It was really encouraging and way better than the ridiculous Madonna idol worship that was on the TV. I was working in the sound booth at the time and I saw glimpses of the monitor of what was happening and it looked repulsive to me.
It was nice to have a super bowl party where you did not have to be bombarded with worldly messages every five minutes. For the most part I did not even watch the game, but was able to fellowship with my Summerville church family.