update before bed..

Well my blog-reading friends, I am about to go to bed. Just a quick update:

I have had a busy weekend! LSU beat Appalachian State, which was awesome! Saturday was especially long for me, due to the fact that I got up at 4:45am to go practice because our game started at 10am. I proceeded to sweat profusely during the whole game and get a lovely sunburn (I’m sure you wanted to know that!) However, we looked amazing, so woohoo its FOOTBALL season!

Then I drove home to Beaumont, only to find out that Beaumont was under mandatory evacuation because of Hurricane Gustav. So my family and I all loaded up in my Dad’s truck to go to Houston. We spent the night there and went to the Astros game the next day. We sat in the best seats ever, and watched the Astros sweep the Cards. They won again in Chicago today…go ’stros! After a quick trip to San Antonio I am back in mid county again. LSU is closed the rest of this week, so I’ll be staying here probably until the weekend. I have been praying for everyone I know that could have had damage-especially my friend’s mom who lives where Gustav made landfall. Please pray for the states of Mississippi and Louisiana…we have lots of work to do. I also know that God is going to use this disaster for His good-that people are going to see the love of Christ in tangible ways through relief efforts. Ha Satan! You lose. We win. The end.

On a more personal note: something that God has been dealing with me on is the issue of idolatry. I think for us modern Christians it is really easy to think, “oh I don’t worship idols like the children of Israel did, so I’m in the clear,” when in fact, idolatry is like on stealth mode in our society and it can creep in really easily if we do not continually check on our hearts! Before I really started really making Jesus the Lord of my life (I had been saved forever), I adopted some pretty bad habits in terms of idolatry. For me it doesn’t happen all of the time, but if I am exposed to certain triggers, my mind goes in crazy mode and starts thinking about that thing obsessively. I had to repent last night, and read some chapters out of Isaiah, a book about the idolatry of the children of Israel and how God felt about it. My idolatry says..okay God, you are great and amazing, but I think this thing (insert whatever) is going to fill me more than you are, so I am going to spend all of my energy thinking about this thing and how wonderful it is! I know this is so wrong, but it is such a struggle for me in certain areas. Just being honest.

Also, I’m still praying about my future, and trusting that God will guide my paths. I need prayer in this area still.

That’s all for now!