So my AMAZING friend Chandra has a saying for when someone goes somewhere or is surrounded by something for a long enough amount of time that they can begin to take on their surroundings. This is a topic we talked about at our Bible Study last Thursday night where I was introduced to Chan's calling these "spiritual flees."
My other GREAT friend Matt was telling us about his experience with these "critters" and how he began to become doubtful and just really absorbed the attitude of the people he was around, and it wasn't a good benefit.
Well, I was really thinking the entire time he was talking about this and the whole time I was thinking about me and my school. I've very much gotten spiritual flees from my school. During the summer all I did was go to church, work at the church, be involved in church functions, hang out with my GREAT Christian friends ALL the time so I knew nothing else..those are the times it's easiest to be a good Christian, but then August came, and school comes back around. Yes, I do go to a Christian school, but don't even start judging. It doesn't make every kid in the school a good Christian person. In fact, majority of them are not. And as much as I love my school friends Alex, Brittany, Kendell, Charlie, Emily Shirley, Zach, Melissa etc...they're not really on my spiritual journey with me nor are they holding me accountable for my actions. It's more like me trying to stand out as a Christian on my own. It's not that I'm calling them bad people because they're not, but I'm very much into my walk with God and becoming spiritually mature whereas not all of them are yet. So sometimes I feel like I'm all on my own trying to maintain my goals...like not gossiping and all those little things. But it's SO hard when you're in an environment that's not accepting of this. So I'm really struggling to keep my mind focused on Jesus at all times and pointing everything in the right direction.
I'm really working on it and praying a lot though.
Thanks for reading my random ramblings... [:
3 comments:
Steph, I feel ya. It's the greatest thing to enjoy the summer and and to be so involved at the church, but when August comes around again, life becomes a mess for me. In fact, I work at a church, so you would think that it must be so easy to keep close to God and to excercise a daily quiet time and to stay focused all the time, but in all reality, it's hard. School, in itself, makes holiness hard. I am in the same boat as you and thankfully you are one of my friends that is "on my spiritual journey with me." We should definately talk more about school and the hardships we encounter there. Agree?
Absolutely. We need to start that up. We need to set aside Friday nights or something to meet somewhere and vent about school and learn about the right attitude to have and leadership and campus missions and things. That would be cool. We need to talk about this with P.P. or P.Ben.
I absolutely agree! I love all of my firends, but I can tell you that my most meaningful relationships are with my church friends. I'm glad that I've gotten to know you better and think you are a marvelous person! It's hard to keep the right attitude and avoid the little habbits that we start without even knowing..I know I've definately had to work on some things that my friends have been holding me accountable for. I'm praying and hoping everything is great with you.
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