but You took my place

there was a skit that they did at TC that I thought was really moving. The scene is set in a restaurant where this one man always comes by himself and sits at a table waiting for this girl. The staff observes that he comes in every night, having reserved a table for two, and waits there in hopes that that night would be the one which the girl would show up. They thought he was foolish to keep waiting and were in disbelief that he could keep sitting there despite all the times the girl did not show up. The staff asks him why he bothers coming every night, why he doesn't give up, why does he continue to wait for her when he's been stood up so many times... and he said: it's because i love her. That night, she did not show up and as he proceeded to leave, he made a reservation for the next night, again a table for two and said bye to the staff he knew so well.

the next scene shows a girl coming home and going to bed, tired from her long day. As she brushes by her table a piece of paper falls to the ground and she reads it and says "oh dangit i forgot again!" and then goes to sleep.

For those who haven't figured out... the man waiting is like God... no matter how many times we reject Him, forget Him, stand Him up, He keeps waiting for us to come back. And how many of us are like the girl... filling our lives up with things to do, keeping ourselves busy, that we don't put aside any time for God. It's really reassuring to know that God will always wait for us, no matter how long He has to wait, however we shouldn't take it for granted. During one of my devos:

Since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God [...] they have become filled with every kind of wickedness." (read further on in Romans 1:28-32 for more indepth verse but that's the gist of it. The more we are away from God the more we fall into sin. So yay God :) for saving us ^^

random note: school is having a dance-off and i was asked to battle Yibo on stage lol! so i said no of course in fear of mass embarassment but this sounds awesome =D