He took my heart on a date.

This morning couldn't have been more perfect. I do need to confess, I watched church online. BUT, it is my church in Chicago, a message that blessed my heart :)

That's not the point, however. Even though my morning was blessed by sleeping in, a cup (well, I'm on my second, don't judge) of coffee, and an online sermon, what really took my heart on a date was reading from My Utmost For His Highest. Coolest. Book. Ever. I am in love, and what Oswald Chambers has to say every time I open it just fills me with conviction. Still not the point, though. The scripture that he was focused on today was 2 Corinthians 10:5....

                      "We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ."

Man o' man. This past worship meeting we had on Thursday was all about leadership. And really, it's impossible to be a good leader without the experience and heart of a follower. Let me take it a step further and say that I, personally, will never reach my potential as a follower or leader in Christ, if I can't learn to take my thoughts captive, and make them obedient to the One I am following and leading people to. Every thought. Every single one. Heck, I read the entire chapter and I recommend reading it daily. Paul goes on to say later in the chapter, "let him who boasts boast in the Lord." Ah, yes, because nothing I do successfully is successful without the Lord. I can't take credit for anything, and if I do, then I am neither a leader, nor a follower--I'm off on my own tangent in life trying to figure out why nothing works out when I try to be obedient, and nothing works out when I try to lead other members of the body. Because it was never about Laramie in the first place:)

It is my prayer that I can learn to be a better follower of Christ. Not just in the devotional, servant, worshiping aspect of following...but letting everything I say and do be of the Lord, honoring to the Lord, imprisoned for the Lord, and in worship to the Lord. That is the mindset I need to have, for the life I want to live.

~Laramie