Life: The Summation of who I am and how God has blessed me!

So I felt awful most of the last week. Is God not Good? If you are surprised to read that you don't really know me. But for those of you who do know me and think I'm optimistic and upbeat all the time you are very mistaken. I am the most negative person I know, but I also know that people don't like to be around negative people so I do not show my negativity. But just now that was not fake that was truth that I can not deny. He is good! If you knew the whole of my testimony you would stand with your mouth gaping until I got to the But God! part.

Have you ever heard someone say But God!? Really think about that phrase. I think that those are the two most transforming words out there. But God! For me I can say that about a good number of people don't really realize the weight of those words. The But God! in my life is the reason I go out and evangelize to the world. Maybe I've only hit the campus of Michigan Tech or the beach of PCB but I can't see where my results lead so who knows where the Gospel is traveling through me? I know that I will love the people no matter what their decision, yet I know I'd rather see them have a But God! in their lives.

We just had an evangelism campaign called I Agree With John, this event was one of the biggest steps of faith I have ever taken. Not only did I have to step up and lead and pray but I wore a BRIGHT green shirt on campus proclaiming that I agreed with John. How nerve wrecking. Yet I believe that I was 100% successful because I stepped out in faith, in the power of the holy spirit, and I left the results to God. I can not save anyone, yet God chose me to share the Gospel with others so that he may save them. So wearing the shirts was hard to have people both faculty and staff looking at me as if I personally had wrote every single chalking on the sidewalk (even the anti IAWJ ones) and believe that God had called us to make that move. To trust in him who was in control. I am confident that the work that God wanted to be done has been and will be done on our campus!

So if you still wondering about what all this has to do with the summation of who I am and how God has blessed me you need to look at your own life. If you a Christian then think about the But God! of your own life. I ceased to live before the But God! of my life because I was dead in sin. For any non Christians think about where your life is headed. Would it not be better to cause mouths to gape at how God has moved in your life, than for shoulders to shrug because nothing has changed.

But God!- A. Marie