the sun stood still

so yesterday at Elevation, we started our Dominate sermon series. but today i have a blog from Sun Stand Still.. not really sure why i didn't post this earlier.

ok so i have a friend and for the sake of this we'll call her "Jorge." haha it's a running joke with us. it's funny to me.
anyways, jorge used to not believe in God. i'm not sure if you could call her an atheist or what, but i know she didn't believe in God and didn't care. she did some messed up things and made some mistakes (and accidentally led me to make one of the same mistakes. but that's my fault, not hers. i don't think she even knows that she had any part in me dealing with this.. and it's also a different story that will never be publicly posted on the internet haha). i'm not bashing her, i loved and love her so much for going through the crap she's gone through and she's strong. to me, it's important to know what people have been through to fully understand how far they've come.

this summer she went to a yig...thing. a conference or something. it was up in the mountains. and i guess the beauty of nature and the people she was with in that place made her realize that there was more. that there had to be Someone who created it because it's just that amazing. and she gave her life to Christ.

she never actually told me flat out. but one day i sent her an IM about something i was about to do...maybe auditions. and she said: "good luck forreal. i know you're going to beast it.i'll pray k" word for word. i saved it because it meant that much to me. i love that 2 words [i'll pray] tell me her life has changed in volumes.
and we've started writing letters to each other. and in her first one to me, she wrote:
"since we're writing each other letters, can we tell each other our favorite verses for the week?! is it strange to you yet how sold out to Christ i am now? :] well this is my new favorite. [for if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them in chains of darkness to be held for judgement; if He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others; if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if He rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless-if THIS is so, then the Lord knows how to RESCUE the godly from trials] 2 Peter (2:4-10)"
and she goes on to talk about how she's sad she missed out on 17 years of God, but is excited to be learning now.
[p.s. we're big supporters of the To Write Love On Her Arms movement which is why the word "rescue" and the theme of that in these verses is so important. rescue is coming. love is the movement]

God has completely turned this girl around.
from who she was to who she is is an amazing journey, and it blows my mind.
the reason this deals with "Sun Stand Still" is because her salvation is something i never thought would happen. it was definitely something that only happened because God needed it to. it was something i had prayed about and i know she has a lot of people in her life who were praying for it. and seeing her turn to Christ is what made me realize that my own family can experience the same thing and come to know Him and it's worth praying about every single day because it's not a hopeless issue. really her story to me means that anyone can be saved at any time and it will all come together in God's time. i'm saving this letter she wrote to me and every letter she will write in the future because it's solid proof to me that God can move in huge ways. He can change whoever He wants, no matter how hopeless you think that case is.


[what a beautiful Savior
what a beautiful God
who would love me for who i am not
who would lay down His life for the person i'll be]