Hello Everyone,

Last year I went on The Woods Youth Summer Trip. I posted a blog with a journal entry for every day. I went on the same trip this year with a few detours. This years trip was a few days longer so I've decided to split up this blog and post one or two days at a time.

Day 1: 

Today was relaxing. We left around dinner time and are planning to drive through the night and arrive in South Dakota before dinner tomorrow. While on the bus we were encouraged to read through Ephesians and focus on chapter one. It's a good chapter, I would suggested you read it. God real spoke to me through this chapter.

My walk with God has been stagnant for the past month or two. In Ephesians Paul is writing to the people and church in Ephesus. He also prays for them. When I read passages like this I like to read it as if Paul is praying for me. While reading, one verse in particular spoke to me:

I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. -Ephesians 1:17-

I highlighted the last section in my bible and have started praying every night for wisdom, revelation, and a better relationship with God. There is always improvement to be made. We can never fully know God. His power and majesty is incomprehensible.

In the Old Testament Moses sees the back of God and his face starts to glow. Eventually it faded away. Moses, later, sinned when he struck a rock out of anger (there is more to the story, you should read it). Moral of the story, there is always work to be done and progress to make. You can never reach the ultimate faith. Moses face was glowing and he still had work to do. Always pray for wisdom, revelation, a better relationship with God, and a hunger for God.

We should always be hungry for God and looking for the next step in our relationship with him. I started reading through the whole bible this year, and it was enough to feed my relationship at first, but now I want more. 

My next step is having an accountability partner. One of my friends gave me a notebook for my birthday with instructions. I'm supposed to write what ever the Holy Spirit puts on my heart and give it to her, then she will do the same, and we'll keep trading it back and forth as a way to keep the other accountable and active in the faith.

Sorry this was such a long blog, the rest are much shorter.