As most of my friends and family know, I worked at Pine Cove Christian Camps again this summer. I was at Shores, which is the high school aged group, 10th-12th. Can I just say that I learned more in that 6 weeks than I ever planned? I met amazing girls with whom I was able to confide with and got into awesome spiritual talk with. Not only that, but the campers the Lord placed in my cabins challenged me more than I thought.
Now, this was my second summer to work here and I was expecting it to be much like last summer...boy, was I wrong! The Lord truly broke me of my pride, specifically my desire to meet the approval of man, rather than of God. I never even realized I did this because I always told myself that I didn't care what people thought, but I was deceiving myself. Pride really does come before the fall, because I fell and fell hard. But the awesome part about that was that the Lord was there to pick me right back up in my brokenness.
You know, that is all the Lord really desires, a broken and contrite spirit. He wants us to realize that we need Him to do anything, that apart from Him, we can do nothing. That concept is so difficult for me to understand, because I want to do all this stuff to help further the kingdom...But clearly, the Lord is sovereign and knows what He is doing and doesn't need for me to tell Him what needs to be done. I hope this can sink in for some of you as well.
There will be more to come about camp, but I'm off for now
Cheers
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