It's Sarah!

Hey guys, it’s Sarah again! I cannot explain how great it feels to get these hands on this keyboard again to BLOG to you ladies! Well probably, or most of you, already know that I have transferred to public school this fall. I’m now attending Hudsonville High School and it’s officially my second home. I love it. Part of the reason I transferred though, was because I wanted to witness to people who I had never met, who I never grew up with, or even had the time to share who I was or want to be. I had always heard that you can tell when someone’s a Christian because you can feel something is different about them, a certain keen presence about them that makes you want to know more. This year I got bold. Bolder than ever. I did something I would’ve never dreamed of doing in my life. But then again, I never thought I’d be going to a public school either. You see, our youth group is doing an outreach called The 30 Day Bible Challenge hosted by The National Youth Alive Program. The challenge is when a youth group, or a group of friends, makes a commitment to carry around a Bible with them everywhere they go in their school. Locker to locker, class to class, even to the bathroom. It’s very powerful. I’ve already had several instances of people even asking me what it was my first week of school. But there’s one situation in particular.

I was standing in the library looking for a place to sit with my Mac Book so I could do some research. There was one chair and it was at a crowded table. I sat down and started to work. As I worked all I could hear about was new drugs they were trying, what hour they wanted to go smoke, and what was going in their sex lives. I couldn’t concentrate. I’m a Christian. I shouldn’t be sitting here listening, I should say something? Then again, I wasn’t supposed to be hearing this. They couldn’t be any louder. It sounded like someone was screaming inside of my brain. I started to hurt inside. My heart started to break, and not a as a figure of speech. I grabbed my things and started to make my way out of the seat. I felt the Holy Spirit clearly inside me “Do not move from that seat.” I sat back down, my heart still hurting until I heard, “Why do you have your Bible with you?” the boy beside me talking about all the notorious things he had accomplished. I told him straight out, “Because I want to reach my school for Jesus Christ.” He stared at me. So did his friends. It was awkward. But it wasn’t a mean stare. “That’s bold of you” He said. “I like people that are bold.”

See, we don’t know what people are going through; sometimes we don’t even want to know. Like me. I didn’t want to be any part of their ‘stuff’ but I didn’t want to say anything. Sometimes the Holy Spirit will speak to you and tell you to “stay still”. If you’re in financial crisis, thinking about leaving your partner, or even dropping out of school because you feel like you can’t do it anymore, God will want you to be still, because He can use your bad situation, and turn it into a good one.