So who is this Scotty fella?
My friends call me Burf, my family calls me Scooter, and The LORD calls me His baby boy.
I used to be an indoorsy, computer-loving, overweight couch potato, but now I can hardly be inside for 3 hours before feeling a little dose of cabin fever. I love running, kayaking, climbing, and really just about any excuse to be outside, exploring this beautiful Earth that God has made. God has given me a body with no physical ailments, and a constant desire for new and exciting experiences. I feel that because He has given me this gift (which many people do not have), I have no right to sit around playing video games, eating junk food, etc. I want to live life as Jesus Christ wants me to live it - as He has allowed me to live it. |
"As soon as I got out into Heaven's light I started on another long excursion, making haste with all my heart to store my mind with the Lord's beauty and thus be ready to any fate, light or dark. And it was from this time that my long continuous wanderings may be said to have fairly commenced. I bade adieu to all my mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God." |
In spite of all that I’ve done wrong, all the sin which I’ve piled up for myself, all the times I’ve blatantly turned my back on The Lord, He graciously and consistently reminds me that I am His Beloved Child and He is my adoring Papa. Jesus Christ has claimed me as His own. And even though I fail daily in my strivings to obey His Word, He is always waiting - full of patient, merciful, unconditional love - for me to return my focus to Him. I am so inexpressibly thankful for The One True God. He alone is good. And He is always good.
God's gracious and free gift is not for me alone. It is for any and all who will accept it. There is no work to be done - indeed there is no work that any of us could possibly do to become 'good enough' for our perfect Creator. However, "God so loved the world, that He sent His only Son, that whoever believes in Him would not die, but have eternal life. God did not send His Son to condemn the world. Rather, He sent Jesus in order that the world might be saved through Him." (John 3:16-17)
God's gracious and free gift is not for me alone. It is for any and all who will accept it. There is no work to be done - indeed there is no work that any of us could possibly do to become 'good enough' for our perfect Creator. However, "God so loved the world, that He sent His only Son, that whoever believes in Him would not die, but have eternal life. God did not send His Son to condemn the world. Rather, He sent Jesus in order that the world might be saved through Him." (John 3:16-17)