Music, Reading, Washing, Talking, Mercy.

After having this window on for a good five minutes or so, I finally found something to start this off and that was it...  Hmmm, due to the fact that I always blog late at night or really early in the morning, every time I write about my day, it's technically "yesterday"... Well "yesterday" I played the piano a lot, played my violin, did some reading, oh and got to wash my car! Since the tree where I normally park my car under is sapping at the moment with the combination of the strong winds we've been having along with the dirt from my front yard, my car looked like it went on an off road drive in the desert or something; and it wasn't that long ago that I washed my car last, I think it was only 3 weeks ago... whatever..

So since I've been playing the piano often lately, my parents (especially my mom) have been getting mad at me because the piano is located in the living room and my parents are ALWAYS watching tv in the living room. And so me and my mom got into a disagreement on the purpose of having a piano. I ended up borrowing my cousin Harvey's keyboard, now I can play in my room so my parents can watch tv in peace, I guess...

After loading the keyboard in my car, I had a good talk with my cousin ahaha. Got to catch up, even though we hung out Wednesday. It's always cool to see how the Lord is working in a brother in-Christ's life. I'm not saying that our conversation was good because Harvey shared things about his friends or whatnot, but it was good because our conversation was very Christ-centered. It is such a blessing to be able to talk to someone about how much we want to share the Gospel with a friend or how much our disciplines have changed! Like a couple of days ago, I got to talk to some of the few ladies at my church and we were able to share struggles and encourage one another, ahh I love it! Praise God for fellowship!

In the midst of my conversation with Harvey, I reminded myself about showing mercy to others (since we were talking about sharing the Gospel with other people). After listening to a sermon by CJ Mahaney two days ago, The Holy Spirit totally convicted me, when I heard Mahaney say, "Those who have received mercy should be quite eager to have mercy on someone who doubts." and I totally need to do a way better job in showing mercy to others. Seeing how sinful I am, and knowing the consequences for my sin, it's crazy knowing where I deserve to be... But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ--by grace you have been saved. (Ephesians 2:4-5) How can I not be able to show mercy to someone else, especially with the mercy God has shown me! Gahhh, cmon Ica! It is super frustrating to deal with my sinful self, but that's how I can find comfort in God, to know that I have a holy and blameless Lord who saved me from the punishment for my sin!

Sorry, no structure whatsoever to this... like that's new. Okay, goodnight!