I Am What I Am

Well, today is Friday, June 3rd (my birthday). We made it down Wednesday with no real difficulty and got all settled in and met our roommates. I have four roommates: Robert Yarborough, Will Richardson, and Matt Wambles who is our room leader. On Summer Beach Project there are many levels of leadership. I am at the bottom tier, a disciple. Above me is my room leader who serves as our discipleship leader and big brother type person. Above him is our team leader who serves as the discipleship leader for all the room leaders in our team. The you get into the staff.
It's been a lot of fun so far. Wednesday night we just kinda got to know each other and had a scavenger hunt. Then Thursday we began job hunting. Robert and I got a job at a McDonald's in a Walmart in Destin. I'm looking forward to beginning work. Then later that night we had a rally with a talk by the project director Seth. Seth gave a talk on the theme verse for Summer Beach Project is. Our theme verse for the summer is 1 Corinthians 15:10, "But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me". It was a wonderful talk on what the grace of God in the gospel is and how that relates to our identity. We often times find our identity in our possessions, our personality, our family, or a million other things, but as a Christian, who we are ought to be based in and wrapped up in the grace of God in the Gospel. We ought not to say, because of my personality I am who I am, but by the grace of God I am what I am. I'm looking forward to hearing more on this topic and applying it throughout the summer. 
Please keep me in your prayers this summer as I seek to love God more, seek to love the guys in my room more, seek to serve them more, seek to make God's name more known.
May the Lamb who was slain receive the full reward of His suffering!