As witty as the title may seem, You could be asking yourself, "What has Blake done with this fantastic idea of a blog?!" Well folks, as business would have it, recording my escapade through Mongolia over a year ago has fallen through the cracks of time. If you would like more info about our trip watch our video!!! Mongolia Video
Onto life as it is now for those who care (cause I'm sure most of you have much better things to read about than some college super-senior barely squeezing by in a house of 8 guys). I never clearly stated why I chose the name for this blog that I did so I want to briefly take you down my path of thought as to why I would call this blog "Living 4 one Man." This surely does make a spiritual reference to Christ, but some of you might wonder why I refer to him as a "man" and not as "God." When we look at the Christ of the Bible, we can distinguish that he was indeed man (Read John 1:1) and that he dwelt among us, yet at the same time, he was also God (the virgin birth, anointing, and the authority he spoke with). We see Jesus as both wholly man and wholly God, in the flesh and of the Spirit. But here's the power in this understanding. Since Jesus was God, he could have ultimately crushed Satan at the temptations, taken himself off the cross, and completely avoided the brutality and rejection man by embracing his deity. By Jesus withstanding the temptations while in the desert, it says a lot about his humaness. We all face temptation and we all fail and give in at some point, yet Jesus did not, Jesus rejected temptation as a man. Jesus ultimately stands in the gap that Adam created through giving into the temptation of eating the fruit in the garden. Jesus walked the earth and faced the very same temptations that you and I face, yet he overcame. So in saying that I am "living 4 one man" I don't say that in disregard to his Sonship and deity, but I say that in a sense of seeing he is the pure and spotless lamb who was slain, that though he was man, he faced the world and conquered it IN THE FLESH! So we now have this power because of the blood of Christ. That is the inspiration to the name. I may not have articulated this as clearly as I would hope, but I would encourage you to read the book "Following Jesus the Servant King" by Dr. Lunde (like $13 on Amazon and worth every penny!)
With that awesome knowledge I move into where I am in life as we know it. I am living in a house with seven other guys and beginning to understand what it is like to live in a house of seven guys with all sorts of different ideas and mannerisms. (I know I bring my plethora of imperfections into this equation as well.) I do realize some of my tendencies in that I like cleanliness and organization and most of my house all function on various levels of those principles, so I am slowly learning to put away "OCD" Blake, and bring out "Joe Cool" Blake and not try to clean and organize everything to my standards. But so far this has been a valuable experience. I am getting to know the guys at a great level and
