My 30 Day Challenge

I've felt so disconnected lately. I've been on a spiritual low the past month or so with all the chaos of school, activities, and other frustrations of life. The end of this semester is going to fly by and I know I'm going to be busy with schoolwork, but I'm also determined to get my spiritual life back on track.

I still stand by my belief that living like Christ draws you closer to Him. I preach it to my friends and even gave a devo about it to my social club. The problem is, I have a really hard time living what I teach. I truly want my spiritual life and relationship with God to improve, but I've just been caving in to distractions and forgetfulness.

So I've come up with a challenge for myself. For 30 days I'm going to do at least one thing daily that makes me go out of my way to act like Christ. It may be serving in some way, showing love to a person who needs it, whatever I feel Christ would do. Some days I may need to just focus on prayer, other days I may just need to serve someone. I need to get out of my comfort zone and take a little leap of faith each day to really challenge myself.

To keep myself motivated I need friends to keep me accountable. I will talk to my best friends so that they will daily hold me accountable. I'll also ask friends and those who follow my blog to keep following and hopefully see the amazing results of my challenge. I will post my findings/experiences/actions or whatever you'll call them as regularly as possible. I ask that if you follow my blog, don't be afraid to comment, question and/or encourage. I'll need it, and seeing that people actually follow what I'm up to will be a great source of motivation.

I also encourage you to take up the same challenge. You don't need to blog about it like I'm going to, but keep a private journal of your results and thoughts. You can even share your findings here if you'd like, I'll definitely reply to them. It's a whole lot easier having someone going through the same thing as you.

I'll be honest and admit that I'm kind of scared of my own challenge. I really like my comfort zone, and I don't really want to leave it. At the same time, I know it's what I need to do, and I'm excited and curious to see how this goes and where it'll take me in my walk of faith.

"If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:

Who, being in very nature God
did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
but made himself nothing,
taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness."
-Phillipians 2:1-7