Saturday, May 13, 2000

2:10 AM, on the computer

I noticed it's been a while since I've written in my journal. I wonder why... anywho.

Current events:

-- I've got a job now, whoopie! It pays $6.50 an hour for part time work, and I'll be picking up letters from two banks and filing them. Not bad really, it pays well for the work.

-- I'm done with school until I go to Dallas to start classes at Christ for the Nations... yes, that's right... John boy's gonna be a preacher.

-- Speaking of which, I've got a small (very small, mind you) internet ministry now... God sends me the lost and I witness to them, or I teach people that have no one to teach them the Bible... I know, it's not a new idea, but hey... it's nice to see God's using me SOMEHOW...

-- One of my journal entries had a part in a girl coming to know the Lord. Really... in my testimony I kept writing "Hi Lauren" because I felt prompted to by the Spirit, and a month ago I ran into a girl that I hadn't seen in about a year, and she expressed a great interest as to why I'm so happy now. I pointed her towards my testimony and she was totally stunned when she read it... cause her name's Lauren. Isn't that freaky? Well anyway she said that lately she'd been having a lot of questions about God, and it gave me an opportunity to talk with her about Jesus. We had a great conversation, and a week later she had told me that she gave her life to Jesus at a Guest Speaker conference at her college. So she got her answers and her salvation, and the Lord added another to my teaching ministry, she's quite a blessing too, praise the Lord!

-- I've got a new nickname now... AJ. People at church call me that, they thought it was cute... it means the Apostle John.

There was something else... what was it..... oh yeah. Lately I've been studying the book of Genesis, and I was reading about Abraham. It says here in Genesis 24 that Abraham was 99 when he was circumsised... ow. I continued on and found out that Abraham and Ishmael were both circumsised at the same time... talk about father/son bonding... "I love you son..." "I love you too Dad..." THOK!! Can you imagine sitting there doing your own thing, and then suddenly your Dad barges in shouting "Hey!! I just made a great deal with God, and now we have to get circumsized!!!" I'd have probably thought "okay... Dad's been to the winepress again..."

Forgive me if I got a little scatological there, I just tend to think about what people thought about when things like that happened. Yes, they were heroes, yes they were great people of faith, and yes they were history makers, but above all they were still human... I can guarantee you that Issac probably checked his pants after the lil sacrifice fiasco...