the world will eat you

Okay, so back in high school me and my 4 best friends used to sponsor a kid through that organization Compassion, I remember how much we loved getting letters and updates on him (i don't remember his name, i'm the worst..) Anyway I remember this specific time it was around the holidays that we got our seasonal letter, it was Christmas themed and the little Kenyan boy just recounted how well his family was doing and how grateful he was for us wanting to help send him to school blah blah blee blee. At the end of the letter he signed it, and wrote "be careful don't let the world eat you". I remember this so vividly all 5 of us, laughing hysterically assuming it must be some translation for like "love you" or something silly.

My point of that story is that the other day that memory popped into my head and I started to think more about why on earth some child would tell me to not let the world eat me? And then it hit me, that this kid knew more about life and faith than I could have ever desired to know at the age of just 10. I literally overtime have been consumed by the world and have in many areas of my life listened to what the world says is "acceptable" and not what the Word says. Imma' mess, but messes can be good, because after all we are human. It just blows my mind that such a simple phrase that a child from Kenya wrote to me years ago is just now making sense to me. A little slow Carl..

-Not much from here, had a long, good day! The highlight of my day was probably teaching the entire Club (170 children) the song and dance to Spinnin' Around by Jump 5- middle/high school classic from youth group. No words can describe.. Just click the link..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB8Nb5iuIKo

1 John 4:4-6

You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them. We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the Spirit of truth and the spirit of falsehood.