[1] We’re still house sitting for our friend’s until further notice. They are overseas and their flight for Saturday was cancelled due to extreme whether conditions, so it has been three days since they were supposed to fly home but all we can do is pray and wait.

We’ve been having a great time staying here though. They have a big house with lots of room for Tyler to explore. We’ve enjoyed their hot tub and cable tv (Does anyone else like the Food Network?) It’s a little bit farther of a drive from where we live, but it hasn’t been a problem.

This weekend Bobby taught Psalm 73 where Asaph gets distracted by the prosperity of the wicked. He is tempted to think that life is better in the world but eventually is reminded that God all he needs. I love verses 25 and 26 of this psalm–

Whom have I in heaven but you?
And earth has nothing I desire besides you.
My flesh and my heart fail,
but God is the strength of my heart
and my portion forever.

This Psalm embodied what is possibly the biggest distraction for our students–seeing the prosperity of the world. Their non-Christian friends can do whatever they want. Most of them aren’t trying to live by any moral standard let alone God’s standard. They dress how they want, treat their parents how they feel, date whoever they like…a life without boundaries or so it seems.

Psalm 73 reminds us that even though it seems like the “wicked” have it all, they will be judged by God for not following Him. This is a challenge because the life without boundaries seems so easy compared to a young person really trying to live for the Lord, untainted by the world. I sat there listening to Bobby teach and had to ask myself if I could say with Asaph, “…earth has nothing I desire besides you.” That is the kind of devotion that God wants and requires from us. Our whole heart, not just part of it.