I think I'm finally starting to get it...

So today I am completely exhausted and I'm coming from a long week of life. Anywho tonight on my drive home I realized something, in Philippians 4:13 it says "I can do everything through him who gives me strength" I have used this as a mantra when I get scared but I'm psyching myself up to do something. I thought of it in the terms of ok Jesus give me strength you just haven't given me enough yet for me to do this task. I need just a little bit more. Well I've come into a new way of thinking. My prayer has become Jesus help me realize that you have given me the strength to do this already and let me abide in your strength.

It's not that I didn't have the strength before and then miraculously I had it a second later, but I had it all the time but I was only relying on myself to get the job done and Jesus is only there to give me that extra little help when I need it. However this is sooo wrong and I finally understand that, Jesus is there the entire time giving us strength and doing the whole job with us. Every struggle, every hardship, everything we do easy or hard, fun or tedious Jesus is there and all we have to do is abide in him and life is so much easier and not scary. In fact (in the word if one of my professors) its joyful.

Seriously realize not that you need more strength or help but accept the help that is freely given to you because as Jesus says in 2 Corinthians 12:9 "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness" And that is the awesome power of Jesus. Rejoice in your weakness because it is Christ's strength is being made known through you.

Explanation of the title of this blog

Driven to the cross... What does that mean. My first reason is that God drives my life and God drives me to the cross where Jesus died because there I find my salvation. Jesus Christ died for my sins and secured my salvation, I believe this and all I must do is accept this gift and believe. Also as I was thinking about this title I realized that Christ was driven to the cross too, in his journey and literally. It reminds me that my salvation was paid for at a price greater that I can imagine and it was not an accident that I was saved but a masterful and beautiful plan derived from God's unconditional and unending love for me and his creation. All of this is to remind me of the love that God has for me and for everybody. I should be driven to the cross and remember that through all that pain there was love and that is a love that drives me to bow humbly before the cross and worship a God who just wants a relationship with me. Driven... to my knees, to love, and to the cross.

This is what this blog is about

Ok I am Andy Warner and I am creating this blog for a few reasons. First is to let everybody know about my adventures in this thing called life. Next I'll share thoughts and ideas that come to me through out my keeping this blog. Finally I'll keep everybody posted about where I am and go (if I keep at this blog long enough)