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It has been cold here in Kansas for the past week or so and I am definitely looking to spending some time with my family in Georgia next week. It is not as if I can pick a given weekend to go home as most kids here can and so being able to see family is a good change of pace. I have one class tomorrow and then I get to play some baseball this weekend and then I get to head out for OKC. It is hard to believe the semester is already half over and we are already inside two months to finals and then I will be ending the year I have spent in the midwest. I am still not sure where I will be going next year but I know that God has complete control and I am letting him just guide me where to go next. He has molded me so much and I am adapting to the life I should be living so it is a little unusual but I am okay with that and am willing to do what it takes to work for the creator of everything. He has humbled me, he has grown in me, he has provided for me, he has forgiven me, and most importantly, he has saved me from roads I would have regretted going down. For a person who has no regrets, that is saying a lot because regrets are things you wish you had never done and so far in my life, I can say that I am okay with everything I have done. That is not to say that everything I have done has been good but there has been a purpose to everything and it has not led to me losing my faith in God and for al of that, I am thankful and glad that I have peace with who I am.

When we are saved, we are told to put off the old self and put on the new self. Seems like a fairly easy thing to understand and do but I think even I have a hard time grasping this concept. I know that I am different but sometimes I revert back to some of the ways of my past which is not supposed to happen if you are doing everything correctly. Jesus makes this pretty simple to understand in Luke chapter 5. He is talking to the disciples in verses 36-39 he states, "He told them this parable, 'No one tears a patch from a new garment and sews it on an old one. If he does, he will have torn the new garment, and the patch from the new will not match the old. And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins, the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, new wine must be poured into new wineskins. And no one after drinking old wine wants the new, for he says, "The old is better." '

" What he is trying to say here is why would you ruin something new in order to try and use the old? The point is that the two cannot go together because they do not complement each other, in fact they are exact opposites. In regards to the wine, if you mix the two, the old will fall apart and all will be lost because the new stuff runs out as well and nothing is left to use. You can see why it is imperative that we stick to the decision that we make when we choose to follow Christ because as I have said before, we need to be all in or all out. There is no in between, being in between causes lots of problems and confusions which is why we make a decision to make things right. I think I am beginning to realize this the further I go on and I am making a conscious effort to be completely in love with God.

I just listened to a song for the first time and it definitely spoke to me, it is by Kutless and if you want to look at the lyrics, I am sure you can find them. The song is called "Guiding me Home" and here is the song...

I hope you have all had an amazing day and I hope God is doing great things and you are following his direction for your life. I am continuing to pray for all of you and I hope you are praying for me.

God Bless,

Joseph Robinson