The Way Matt Sees It

To be honest, I’ve allowed my relationship with God to get a bit stale this week. The NYC Missions Trip helped me a lot, but I haven’t made a lot of time for Him recently. Yesterday I did and it was great, and so today I went to the Worship Chapel Service. As always, the Worship Chapel was incredible. God always comes and meets you in a powerful way when you devote even just an hour to worshiping Him. One song we sang was called, “Give Me Faith” by Elevation Worship. I loved the entire song, but the bridge stood out to me so much: “I may be weak, but Your Spirit’s strong in me. My flesh may fail, but God you never will.” Story of my life! My flesh fails all the time! I was so humbled today while singing this. I’m so sinful, and yes God has saved me from an eternity away from His presence, but sometimes sin rears its ugly head in my life because I allow it to. But even when my flesh fails, my God never will! I can always count on Him no matter what! That is the greatness

The last park I went to on the NYC Missions Trip was called Bown Playground. I was really hoping I’d get to see Daniel, because I told him where we’d be that day. Anyway, it was good because I was able to talk to a lot of people that day. One man I got to speak with was named Melvin. He looked like he might have been homeless, but perhaps not. He was sitting on a bench with Nathan (someone from our group), talking about how he just can’t accept the fact that God made everything in the world. We had a good conversation, and I tried to not debate so much because that doesn’t do anything for anybody. I told him Romans 1:20, “For since the creation of the world, God’s invisible qualities—His eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.” No matter what man says, the Bible says that all men can know that God is real just through observing nature. There is so much that can be said for stuff like th