Pleasing God.

I was in my history class this morning, not wanting in the slightest to pay attention to what happened to Thomas Jefferson. I took out my Bible and began reading it. I stumbled upon this verse:

2 Corinthians 5:9
Our goal is to please God, whether it be here or there.

Not sure what it was, this just smacked me across the face in realization. This past week when I was at Beach Reach, I can not tell you the constant discouragement I had on me. Every night when we would come back from out night ministries, I was so down. I felt like I wasn't getting anywhere with the people down there, I felt like I was doing a terrible job in sharing the Gospel with them, I just felt like it was a mistake for me to go down there again. And this verse just answered that feeling of discouragement. It made me realize that..... God doesn't look at me depending on the number of people I lead to Christ, he doesn't look at me depending on how I share His Word, just as long as I love him enough to want to share it. I know now in my heart that it was pleasing to Him to see me get out of my comfort zone and talk to people I wouldn't normally talk to, to pray for people I didn't normally care about, to talk about His love for them even though I didn't have the pretty words to do it. And in doing that, I know I acheived my goal: my main reason for going there in the first place, which is to please Him.

This gives me such peace to know that even though I became critical of myself during that week, the Lord was pleased in the process. How thankful I am.

On another note, I looked at the schedule for next summer and fall semester. I'm not going to have a life... at ALL next semester. Just a warning. I have some important decisions to make. I'll wait till Wednesday to make them.