This afternoon I met my roommate at the lake close to our house to have a picnic. It was my day off and I hadn't talked to her in like....forever! Amazing how you can live with someone and not talk or see them! Anyways, we started talking about what God was teaching us and the things we are going through. Both of us have so many decisions to make...people say it's because we are young, but I don't see my parents having less choices to make! :)
We decided to feed the fish which ended up as us throwing rocks into the lake. Don't get me wrong, we weren't mad at the fish! While we were doing this my roommate said, "I love seeing ripples in the water." I agreed and we began to talk about our lives making a ripple effect with those around us.
I realized that everyone makes a ripple effect but it may be for good or for bad. A person might make one bad decision that could affect everyone that is close to them. This is the not so glorious side of it. I am so thankful God is forgiving and merciful. Shesh...to think what would happen if He wasn't! It would be a pretty quiet planet...
But then I imagined what it would be like to have a life that affected people in a positive way. I do not desire to be a person who is known as a "Hero of the Faith" who is often put on this righteous and goldy pedestal. These people are far from perfect. I honestly do not even care that people remember me but that they remember who I served. I want to be a person who leaves a positive mark on everyone I see but not for my glory but that GOD would be glorified and that person can not HELP but share God's word with others.
Imagine if we all lived our lives like that. What a ripple effect that would be.
