Blogging and Tobacco.

I’ve forgotten what it is like to write in a blog. I think that the last time that I blogged was when I was a freshman in high school (which was like six years ago. I know, I know…I’m old. Leave it alone haha). Anyway, I realize that sometimes it is good to get things out of my head and onto paper (or in this case…what would you call them, giga-bytes?) to help you process things more.

I don’t really know how often I’ll be updating this blog, but seeing as I have so much constantly rattling around in my head, I figure that I’ll probably update it a few times a week. If I need to get something out in the open, this would be the place to do it. If I found or read something that was particularly interesting to me during my daily devotions or if something happened in the news or on campus or something that I want to process, this will be the place for me to vent it.

Speaking of my daily devotions and something that struck me, I had something that I found interesting today and that stuck out to me for some reason, though I’m not exactly sure why. Andrea (my *amazing* fiancee) gave me a day-by-day devotional called Grace for the Moment or something like that. It’s basically a scripture verse followed by a little anecdote or story that can help apply that verse to your everyday life. It has one for the morning and one for the evening of each day for the year. I really like it.

Anyway, today the author (who’s name presently escapes me) wrote about how when we hide our sins from God, things don’t turn out so well for us. He used the story of when he was in high school on the baseball team and the coach was very against the team using chewing tobacco. However, after much pressure from his team mates, he took a chew and stuck it in his lip. Suddenly, when one of his buddies told him the coach was on the way over, he did all he could think of and swallowed it, ending the story with the fact that by hiding his disobedience, it made him physically ill and lasted with him until he was able to purge the tobacco from his body.

For some reason, after reading this story, I found that it stuck out to me more than my devos usually do. I thought about it for awhile and couldn’t think about what it is that I could be trying to hide from God, what skeletons I may be locking in the closets of my soul. I prayed about it and still wasn’t able to think of what it is that I may be trying to hide from my omniscient Creator, but then it hit me. Maybe it’s not about what I’m hiding from him now, but a warning to confess and talk to Him about what is going on my life, rather than try to hide it from him in the future. Otherwise, if I do try to hide it, it could make my soul sick. Until, at least, I purge it from me like the boy in the story had to eventually do with the tobacco