June 29, 2013
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J-Days: Don’t Coast!
Resolve: Whatever it takes and whatever it costs DONT COAST and fizzle out, no matter how tempting it may be and how hard it may be to keep pressing on now, DONT COAST, instead by God’s grace and for the sake of the Gospel, SPRINT, RUN, JOG, OR CRAWL even, but don’t just coast! Make [this] a strong gutsy guilt, love saturated, eternal long view, BIG God intimate relational theology type of resolve that resonates with every pull and pang in the fibers of my being! God, help me pour myself out for the glory of God and the final salvation of the many. Help me to vibrantly persevere.
So heres the update which I’ll try to keep short and simple this time:
-”Proclivity” and “craving” are words I want to induct into my diction with grace driven poetic effort.
-What is the [deep]er heart sin beneath the surface sin and how do I/you need the Gospel in this? = ALWAYS coming back to the work of Christ and NOT my own works.
-Swedish Method with Katsu plus pointing to the Gospel through Wreck-It Ralph.
-Fasted and prayed and fought the proclivity to wander and forget the Gospel with lust, pride, and performance.
-Settlers of Catan with the team brethren, its the brothers in Christ’s mission pastime or maybe an idol that induces pride ahah jk jk!
-Prepped my heart to PRAISE GOD even for the whorreble and difficult and rough bad days.
-Had 7 rejections in 1 hour
-Praying against cults and lies being fed to Japanese students that we are coming across on campuses
-Getting kinda “sick” of my team(Don’t worry I told this to them and they understood where I was coming from), but I STILL love them and I still love being on mission with them. Its just that I’d love to be home for a day, sleep in my bed, and not see any of them, and then come back to continue the mission. I’m just sick of them, not in a repulsive hateful way, but its more like “an introvert in need of being alone and not seeing anyone’s face for a day because when I wake up I see them to when I go to sleep I see them” type of sick. But its good practice for when I (Lord Willing) have wife, if you know what I mean. Oh how God sanctifies and tempers His children’s souls.
-Lots of grace shown on the campuses this week and running about as the Triforce of CSUF(Lester-’Destino’, Julien-Cru, and I-EPIC) in Tokyo. Excited to continue this Holy Spirit led team up back home.
-My team assignment for Unity Week was the following, “Leave your Bible, CRElb, and Music behind. Lead the pack in pace and time.” Felt so naked, but was good as it help me cherish the weight of my sword and to exhort my brethren more through the Word in my heart. Praise the Trinity for Bible Memorization!
-One brother had to be within an arms length of another specific brother the whole time on campus, it was sanctifyingly hilarious!
-Reminded of the Prpl Fox videos and led to [deep] prayers and earnestness.
-How does one have [sexual purity] in a lust-saturated world and when you have a burning passion in the loins?
-Resolved to not marry my potential wife until I hear her fart AND she has to be willing to LARP with me and preferably not despise it.
-This week have been less talks, but longer and better quality. Soli Deo Gloria.
-Narrated for Mafia twas legit!
-Inexpressibly tired from vigorously and vibrantly running about and loving upon lost souls from those who think [deep]ly to the uninterested, fireworks to blackholes, and good communicators to the difficult to communicate.
-Sweet solitude saturates my solemn jubilee sabbath!
-Saw Tokyo Tower and other awesome Tokyo stuff.
-Have been getting very close to the brothers in Christ on my team and am glad to be able to serve them with lovely massages and [deep] talks.
-[DM] and a Identity Crisis = Much prayer in waging war on sin and lies especially as I fight hard not to coast AND Gospel centered introspection of every fiber of my being, but my soul rests in my One True Love’s arms.
-Awesome alleyooping with my team brethren, despite me being “sick” of them, our unity for the Gospel is definitely apparent and its a true joy and holy bliss to my weary soul. I truebdetrueb love them.
-Praise the Trinity for no more bug bites and that we got to see Rikkyo Campus on a beautiful sunny day!
-Ate fried blowfish and it was amazing! It’s like chicken and calamari had a wonderful and beautiful baby!
-One more week in Japan.
-The video bellow is the official theme song for our team
Souls to pray for: Keisuke, Keisuke, Hitaro, Rick, Yu, Sung-Joo Song, Kazu, Kazu, Yutaro, Nobi, and Takuro.
Always so much more… Soli Deo Gloria!
