I’m a guy, but that is no excuse for how messy my room is. Its not like gross and smelling bad, its just got stuff all over the place. I want to make it clear that there is a difference between a gross and a messy room. Mine falls strongly into the second catagory, I need to clean it at some point, but here are the pictures to show how bad it is:

and again :/

another view

Well yeah…..

so learn from me and keep your room clean b/c now I have to go through the process of cleaning that mess up bit by bit and its not fun. When I get it clean I will put up pictures of what it should look like..

Wow, its only been two weeks since I last posted. Soooo much has changed in that short period of time, my entire world has in essence been flipped upside down…

Here’s the run-down of the biggest change that has happened:

My original plan for the fall was to attend the local junior college, go there for 2 years and then transfer into VCU to get a 4 year degree. Going back about 3 years, I’d been seriously considering going into the marines for about two years, and then last year around this time I felt like it wasn’t what I was supposed to do, so I laid that down. I didn’t really think about going into the military at all for at least a year, and then I got one of those recruitment letters from the Marines. I began to think about my plan for the fall, why I was so stressed out about it and whether that was what I was supposed to do. I’ve been praying about it and realized I have no peace about going to college in the fall despite that being the logical choice for what to do. I then realized that I have a peace about if I were to enlist in the Navy and then become a Corpsman attachted to a battalion of Marines on the ground.

Thats all for now, but I will be writing a post going more in depth into why I feel like this is what I’m supposed to do and the implications It would have on my life. If you read my blog but never stop by to comment, I’d appreciate if you would stop by and just give me a holler or even tell me what you think about my blog and what I could do better.

I like this whole quickpress thing, its good for short quick posts such as this one. It gives posts a twitteresque vibe to them, about twitter well….Lets just say that twitter is part of the reason I haven’t been blogging lately. Twitter makes it so easy to integrate blogging into every aspect of your life that it can end up taking away from your actual blog. I’m going to try and change that sometime here soon and actually sit down once every 1-2 weeks and organize my thoughts and try to have some kind of consistency to my blogging =)

For now, farewell my blogging friends b/c its almost 4AM! o.O I need to get to sleep….

Its been longer than a while since I’ve posted on here…..sorry about that. I’d like to make it a goal to post at least once every two weeks, maybe even once a week on here. Challenging, its very much so pushing my boundaries and forcing me to step out of my comfort zone, I like it and its good for me so looks like i’ll be around here more often. =)

McDonald’s is bad for me, its bad for you, its not healthy for anyone. Tonight as I was driving home from Fuel Group I was having this really strong craving for McDonald’s, even though I know that it is horrible for my body and having coupons in the back of my car for that place didn’t help in the least. I wanted a Big Mac, a double cheeseburger, some fries, anything. Only thing was that It would cost me money to buy that food, money that I wasn’t willing to give up for some food that would taste so good but be gone in a few minutes and wouldn’t fill me up.

Sin seems to be the same way. I know its bad for me and ruins relationships and isn’t positive in anyway for anyone, yet still I find myself wanting to indulge in the things of the world, being tempted to give in to something that its bad for me. Sin can seem so appetizing, it offers you a good feeling, a momentary high that fades away. That momentary high can feel so good, but what do you have afterwards? If my purity is of no value to me, then giving in to temptation will be of no concern to me. However if my purity is of high value to me, I’m not going to just go out on a whim and sin and “spend” my purity per se.

….sorry for the scatterbrainedness, its late and i’ve got alot going on. Hopefully I got my point across.

Its been over a month since my last post -gasp- So here is a small little something for all of you who may or may not have been missing me.

I’m tired of all this political stuff, its just not my thing. To an extent I care who is in the white house, but beyond that I couldn’t care less. I’m not worried about who is in office because they aren’t in control, my God is in control.

Thats right, GOD is in control which means that the appointed officials are in office because HE orchestrated it to be so. My trust is in HIM and thus i’m not worried about who is in office

They process of living more for Christ and less for ourselve is so elegant and beautiful, yet so aggonizing and difficult. I’m going through a season where The Father is really calling me to kill off more of Zach so that Jesus Christ can become more alive in me. Its not fun, it is indeed as I stated before an aggonizing process, a war within the very core of my being. Its so very interesting and I am Joyful that God is continuously working in me, even right now. That lets me know that I’m at least on the right track and doing something right, also the fact that life isn’t all hunky dorey and there are things that I really have to trust God with lets me know that HE is in control.

As I relates to this season of change God has really given me a personal revelation about Romans 12:1&2 which says: “1. I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 2. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.” I don’t even remember when, but I read that verse and the Holy Spirit spoke to me and say “You are to be a LIVING SACRIFICE”. When I typically think of a sacrifice, things die, for something to be sacrificed it has to be killed. In the Old Testament, animals were sacrificed(killed) to atone for sins. Jesus Himself was the ultimate sacrifice and allowed the human body which He dwelt and lived a perfect life in to be killed. So if you think about it the phrase “Living Sacrifice” in of itself is a contradictory phrase, until it is placed within the life of a Christian where it makes perfect sense. We are called to die to ourselves and let Jesus become more alive in us. So what that verse says to me is: You need to kill off more of the old Zach, and let more of the Jesus filled new Zach become alive.

This process quite honestly bites, my flesh is lazy and likes to sleep in. I like to not have a schedule that results in my prayer and time studying the word being horribly inconsistent and ineffective. I like to stay up late at night and sleep till noon the next day(which homeschooling allows =)) but sadly  the time for those habits has come to an end. God’s calling me up to a new intimacy with Him, its going to cost me alot but It will be worth it. I talked with my Youth Pastor a couple Wednesdays ago and He and His wife are going to hold me accountable to how much studying of the word i’m doing, how much i’m praying, the amount of time spent in worship and the amount of time spent with my parents. That is one of the ways I’m being stretched and held accountable to develope a consistent relationship with God. I’m not sure how long this season is going to last, but I’m going to get the most out of it that I can, allowing myself to be trained by The Father and those He’s placed in authority over me. Truly I say unto you that God is great! He is alive in this day and time, He’s not sick but is thriving as always. His love for you is incomprehensible. Oh how I love my scatter-brained posts. =)

I must ask for anyone that may read this, what is the season that you are in? What is God calling you to work on in your life?

Currently I’m watching Warren Miller’s Impact on Encore WAM! I must say that Warren Miller films are among my favorites, which is saying alot with the massive number of movies that i’ve seen. Its also making me go crazy b/c I find much pleasure in snowboarding and watching these ppl snowboard/ski makes me want to go really really bad. There is just something about snowboarding that makes my spirit jump inside of me, can’t explain it but I do know thats just how I am. Not gonna complicate this post, I’m just thankful that I have Heavenly Father who has given me passion and allows me to take such great pleasure from such things as snowboarding. Thats all for tonight…i think i might leave you with a few pics

So i must say, that i have bought into the blogging world. Full on, headfirst dove in. I blog on here occasionally and i also micro blog on twitter, which is what I’m here to talk about today. Twitter is amazing, and one of the coolest web 2.0 apps(?) that i have found to date. Its awesome how those who are “following” me recieve the updates to their cellphone, and vise versa. I rarely get excited about technology, most of it just bores me and seems useless, but twitter is unique and has enormous potential to connect people. So go on, drink the cool-aide and join twitter =) www.twitter.com

some good people to follow are:

jtalaiver-lots of tech updates, and in general just stuff that any geek would love.

pwilson-mostly church and ministry related updates, makes sense seeing as he is a pastor.

I’m going to just be real tonight, this post is as much for me as for everyone else. Our condition as the church sickens and saddens me. My complacencey and inconsistency is disgusting to me. I’m ready to get serious about this thing we call “Christianity”. Its time for the church to step up to the plate, and become who we were designed to be. It seems as though one day I’m on fire for God, and totally sold out for Him, and the next I couldn’t care less. And then I let this roller coaster ride of whether I’m feeling it or not affect my consistency, and I end up in a grove where its been days since I prayed, and I’m disgusted with myself. Its time church to get engaged with the Father, to truly live for HIM. Personally I’m going to get serious about it even if it kills me which I hope it does, for then Jesus can become alive in me. I’m going to take some practical steps to do this,such as getting a group of people together who will meet once a week to pray together, study out the word, encourage each other, and hold each other accountable. This is how we’re called to walk together, truly in unity with The Father and one another, constantly digging deeper and becoming more like HIM.

2 Da Reeders: The picture was acctually taken by me with a camera phone too!!!