Ben Pettit

On repeat +1 tonight:

Keep distracting me with that beauty
leaving me wanting more
reminding me of my duty
to lock these eyes to yours

i’ve never known a love so true
i want to see all of you
when green meets red and red meets blue
i want to see all of you

sunlight dances with the distance
in her squinty eyed shoes
and i’m chasing down horizon
in hopes of being danced with too

daylight sings all that morning air brings
and i’m lost, i’m lost inside of you

via Matt Wertz “Red Meets Blue”

It’s crunch time, game time, and all the cards are on the table.

It’s hard to charge the gates of hell with your pants around your ankles. - Perry Noble

It’s time for you to take your place in the kingdom as a priest and disciple. You are to put on your armor and fight the good fight. The Lord is with you.

“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, Or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?” - Romans 8:35

You will experience every temptation and weight.  It is time to charge forward. You may get hurt and it may get messy.

No persecution could be so painful that God’s love cannot bring comfort. - H. Blackaby

It’s time to fast and pray that the Lord might sustain you through your discomfort.

I have not departed from the commands of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my daily bread.     - Job 12:23

Oh, if this should be my last day on this earth
How then shall I live
Oh, if this should be the last day that I have
Before I breathe the air of Heaven
Let me live it with abandon to
The only thing that remains
After my last day here on earth

Above is song text by Steven Curtis Chapman. It sparked a question in my mind. What would your life look like if you knew you had only one day, 24 hours, from now to live? I’m not trying to come across as morbid. I’m only asking you to self-examine yourself.

Much to my demise I lived much of college like this. If there was something to do, I was doing it. I was out and about as much as possible. I did not like to be not busy. I prided myself on having a full calendar. Over the years that has changed for me.

On the other hand do you ever feel like your so busy that you can not enjoy life? I always had this thought that the homework really did not matter. The test, big deal, it’s a test. My heart beat was always to play music. I really have never cared to analyse it. Everything else took a back seat.

I think if I had the one last day to live, I would do everything with reckless abandon. I’d drive with reckless abandon, maybe go shoot some guns or something southern and American, and then spend as much time as possible with my family, roommates, and Stacy.

I don’t know when the Lord is coming back, but I do know that I’ll spend eternity with him.