I missed this....

I'm wondering why I decided to blog so long ago.  Was it to boast me or was it to boast about Jesus?  Was it to help people or help myself?  Was it to cause controversy or help bring hope/healing?


Could it be all of the above?  NO!  Well, all of the above minus boasting me!  I am nothing to boast about.  I do not like attention.  I enjoy people saying great things about me, it helps more than people think.  However, without a doubt, my finger points up because without God I AM NOTHING!  Anything I do in this life is because of my LOVE...love for God, love for God's people, and love for God's GREAT work that God continues to do.  If I did not have this love, I would only be a math teacher probably about to punch a high school kid in the face because they complained math sucks (and it most certainly does not, at least not when I teach it).


Honestly, I started blogging because it was the thing to do when I hit college.  But, I suppose I started blogging to see if this was actually what God wanted me to do.  Did God REALLY want me to be a youth minister??  REALLY GOD?  REALLY?


I continue to ask this to keep myself humble, because every time God reminds me, "David, (or Gaddy as you like to be called), did you really think you alone were going to be a minister??  You are never alone!!  I AM with you.  Not only as God, but I also live in you.  Not only do I live in you, but I also live in the people you will come across (friends, family, wife, teens, their parents).  I am not dead, I am alive, and you are NEVER alone."


I am reminded of this today.  After the deadly final two weeks of school have come and gone (for which took much of my energy away), I am now knee deep in ministry at my current church.  I love this place, love the people, LOVE THE TEENS!  However, I realize too often I try to go it alone.  This is not fair to me and not fair to those people who have amazing talents with teens and children.  As I look back though, I realize that never once did I walk alone...God and Gods peeps have been there all along.


With this in mind, this is my blog.  I will speak my mind carefully.  This will be my therapy and the outflow of what God has on my heart.  On my heart right now, this song "Never Once".  Hear the song, feel the lyrics, I realize we are a people who are not abandoned, but loved by an overwhelmingly loving God!


Until Next Time....