Walk 29

Ummm...

so today 

was food experiment day.

And,

to say the least,

it didn't turn out well.

Not

at 

all.

But hey!

Tomorrow's a new day,

and there's a new episode of Pretty Little Liars

and

a new Messy Monday video (hopefully)!

Good things on the 29th of January:

Yeah, amazing picture I know. When I took Cody's picture, Instagram froze up on me and somehow the picture got deleted :/

This is why I had to go back and stir it, therefore causing the chocolate chips to melt and make the batter chocolatey. If you look at this picture below this one, you can still see tiny clumps of butter that I had to stir in.

The final product  o.O

•  Going to the late service at Stevens Street Baptist church today. Again, I really do love their music!
• Eating lunch with my friend Cody and his friend Ben. I was rolling the whole time, they were so funny! They would also break out (loudly) into song pretty much every ten minutes. It was a good lunch!
• Playing racquetball with Savannah.
• Going to The Perch with Savannah, Bradley, and Travis. While there, I got (what we thought was) a strawberry kiwi polar ice thing. Polar ice, Slushy (ie, ee, etc.), Icee, they're all synonymous!
• Eating the most healthy dinner ever, consisting of tortilla chips and cheese sauce, and an apple and crunchy peanut butter.
• Experimenting with food in my crockpot.

Yeah, 

the whole 

experimenting in my crockpot thing...

it didn't turn out too well.

Originally,

I wanted to be a total fatty and put cake mix on top of cookie mix.

A) I don't know why I wanted to do that, since brownie mix on top of cookie mix obviously would've been much better

B) I realized that I didn't actually have any oil and eggs to make the cake mix, so yeah... that idea got nixed.

So,

I decided to do just the cookies.

I think I went wrong

by letting it cook too long.

It...

it was interesting.

It 

A) turned dark brown because I stirred it after the chocolate chips had melted

B) turned into this weird cake consistency and smelled bad/weird and only tasted a little better than it smelled.

So,

now I know what not to do.

Trust me,

there will be many more experiments 

in my crockpot

in my future.

And you will get to see them all!

So Walk 29.

Honestly,

it was kind of boring again.

I feel bad,

because I kind of looked at it and sighed.

It was more of the rules that God gave Moses.

Only,

this time,

it was for the priest.

It was kind of gruesome in my eyes

because it involved killing lots of animals.

But,

I understand that it was necessary to cleanse the priests.

I guess,

I just have to look at it as one of those acts of obedience

that you need/have to follow.

To me,

it doesn't make much sense.

However,

I live in much different times than the Israelites did back then.

We don't have to do those sacrifices anymore

because Jesus paid the ultimate sacrifice.

And man,

am I grateful.

He gave me a new life in every which way.

No more sin,

and thankfully,

no more live sacrifices.

Today though,

we still have to make sacrifices,

they're just in a different manner now. 

God wants us to sacrifice the best of our

time

money

resources

love

for Him and His benefit.

I am, by nature, 

a very selfish person.

I have three other siblings,

so I am very protective of my stuff,

and I don't like to share.

Sacrificing my things to God

is honestly 

one of the biggest challenges I have faced

and have to face in the future.

Once I get an income,

I know 

tithing will be really hard for me.

It won't be so much that I won't want to,

but I'll get lazy

and forget

and say "oh I'll do it next month".

This also leads back to whenever I said I kept making excuses for doing things.

It's because I wasn't willing to sacrifice my time to God.

I had no real good use for it,

but just in case I decided to find one,

I wanted to keep my time to myself.

I can't do that.

I need to learn,

and I will learn,

that the best use of my time

is when I give it to God.

Honestly too, 

I feel the best 

when I've used my time for God and for others.

When I know I benefited someone besides just me,

it's been a good day.

I know that I need to ask God to help me be willing to sacrifice to Him.

<3MG