K Austin i am just going to...

 answer in a thought so yeahh i figure i might as well tell everyone what i think love really is.

1. What do you think love is?

2. Is it an emotion? or a choice?

3. Does it end?

4. If you are really in love does that mean that you should get married?

5. Does God have one "right" person for everyone? and if so is that the person you are to marry?

Love is a very powerful emotion.  I also believe that it is a choice, here is why: you have the decision to say okay i hate this person.  Therefore you must have the decision to go the opposite way.  It is a choice because God gave us the ability to make choices and that is also why not everyone loves God.  If love was only an emotion we would not be able to control it and our "love" would be running wild.

John 15:13 Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. 

This verse just tells you what the greatest love is.  Now if i were to believe this verse i think i would have to believe that true love never ends.  Sure you might get tired of a person or thing.  But if you truly love them then you will never stop caring for them.  It is a pretty difficult topic but i would have to believe that Christ is the only one with this true love.  He died for everyone of us.  Even the ones who hated him, he still cared enough to lay down his life.

I dont think that just because you suddenly feel like you are in love with a person means hat you should get married.  You need to seek deep council with wise people that may help you realize why you are in love with this person.  

And no i do not believe that God has one right person for everyone.  I think that the people who go without being married are happier unmarried.  If it wasnt so then they would be married.  And if they are not married when they are supposed to be then they are not following God's will. 

so yeah thats basically my answers to those questions. Feel free to disagree, but if you do please voice it because i am open to learning. 

And if you are truly searching on what love really is

what better place to look than the Bible.

1 Corinthians 13

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so I have come to realize that God answers prayers.  I mean yeah i have known that for a long time but it is so real to me now.  I have been praying that he could just place the desire in my heart to know Him more.  So lately i have just been deciding to read my Bible instead of doing other things.   I am going to start bringing my Bible everywhere I go.  He has made me interested in the Bible.  It's kind of crazy because i have been a Christian for around nine years but i have never really dove into the Bible.  It was pretty awesome because when i first decided to read i opened to John1:1 which is In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the word was God. So if i want to get to know God Better then i need to read the word.  

Well thats kinda whats been on my mind lately so yeahhh shoots 

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i am pretty much pouring out my heart 

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Pretty amazing things have been happening to me lately.  as some of you know i have been at camp kokokahi for the past 2 weeks teaching mime.  well my brother in christ has been there too.  he haas been kind of like a mentor to me.  he has helped me to  seek better relationships and such things.  So a few things i have learned are...

I need to be more selfless and less vain

I have realized that i needed to ask God to humble me.... and most definatly He did.  its not always about me.  Looks do not need to be the main focus in my life.  christ needs to have charge of everything...  in the bible it says love the lord with all your heart soul and mind.... honestly if i am loving him *that* much then what else should i have room to love. also i know you might ask well then how are we supposed to love other people like the significant other?  well we need to love the GOD in the person.  So that also proposes another question. How could i possibly, being a follower of christ, love any person that does not have christ in them?  Well thats just it you cannot because then you would not be giving enough love to jesus. 

Also i have realized that some people have considered me a leader.  (with the help of brinton howerton and andrew adams) I am going to use a quote from spiderman.  "with great power comes great responsibility."  this is soo true if soemone wants me to lead them then i dang sure better be leading them in the correct path.  One that is a path that God would approve of.  I will also give a quote from Andrew.  Much is given to you, Tyler, so much will be required.

Also this week i have learned how to have a quiet time with God.  Before this week sure every once in a while i would just sit with my Bible and talk to God.  This is not the right way to go AT ALL.  It is amazing what he can show you if you just give him the time.  If you are hesitant to have a devotion because you are too tired or what ever the case may be then please think of it like this.  quiet time with God is the best time of the day.  the rest just goes downhill from there.  i dont care if you are going out on a date or whatever the case may be what better thing is there than to spend time with the creator of everything? 

I know that some people may not like things like this and no I am not trying to preach to anyone I am just sharing new things that have been an incredible excitement in my life. 

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yes i think my family has found a new house to buy .  those of you who went to hawaii for the mission trip,  the house is right up the rode from the camp.  It is up on a hill and there is a balcony where you can see all of Kaneohe Bay.  It is beautiful but, i need you guys to pray that we can get the house.  There is competition for it  and the price is kind of high.  so yeah  thats whats going on

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