Wait for the LORD

It's that time of year again! I can hardly believe we're at the beginning of a new year already! It's bound to happen... people will make posts; (wait, isn't that what I'm doing...) either with a list of all their resolutions, or condemning resolutions with an "I'm too good for that" attitude. I'll admit for a while I was one of those "Resolutions are dumb, why would I make any?" kind of people. And now? Well, I guess it really doesn't matter to me whether someone wants to make resolutions or not. There's definitely always room for improvement. We'll never "arrive" or be perfect in this life on earth, (which by the way isn't a good reason not to try.) What I'm not a huge fan of, is the joke about how "no one ever stays committed to their goals so don't expect to make it very far". And then the whole mentality that you can only make changes for the better at the beginning of the year, or at the...

Wow! I know it has been a long time since I made a post. It's crazy how time flies by and I don't even notice! Lately it's hit me how negative, selfish and disapproving the world can be, and how easy it can be to lose focus and follow that harmful pattern. Darkness does anything it can to try and drown out the light. (Sad, right?) I believe the Devil is especially cunning in trying to take our focus off of God. To weigh us down with other people's opinions, whether or not I'M having a bad day, what so-and-so did, really just petty little things in life. I'll be the first to admit that I am especially susceptible to caring too  much what other people think of me. I tend to be a people-pleaser, I like to make people happy, and when someone says negative things about me, it really does hurt! But with God's help I've been able to focus more on HIM  than what people say about me. Now, with my thoughts more on HIM, it's like my mind is clearer and I n...

I just recently heard this song and I fell in love with it! The world constantly tells me I need to be something I'm not. That I need to have a perfect complexion. Have perfect hair. Own the latest style of clothes. Act a certain way. Say certain things. Be up to date in the latest gossip. Be popular. Watch the TV shows that everyone rave about.  Do what the world does. Then I heard this song, and it was a wonderful reminder that my identity needs to be found in Christ. I can chase after this or that. Try and be someone I'm not. But at the end of the day, God is the only one who matters. He is forever.   "The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever." Isaiah 40:8 "As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him; for he knows how we are formed, he remembers that we are dust. The life of mortals is like grass, they flourish like a flower of the field; the wind blows over it and it is ...

So back in the month of strawberry picking we got a ton of strawberries that my mom and I cleaned. I think the best part about picking strawberries (besides eating them) is seeing the ones with weird shapes.  To some cleaning and cutting up strawberries may seem like a boring or unwanted job. But as I sat there at the kitchen table cutting up strawberries all I could think was, "How can I honor God even in this little task?"  No, I wasn't out giving food to the hungry. I wasn't out sharing the gospel. I wasn't translating the Bible into a different language. And I wasn't teaching Sunday school. Are these good and God honoring things? Yes! Should we do them? Absolutely. (Obviously God isn't calling everyone to Africa, or to teach Sunday school or whatever it may be. Everyone has something different that the Lord has given them to do)  But just because we aren't out there doing these "big things" for Christ do...

You know those words or sentences or things like that in the Bible that we hear so many times that when we read them it's just like, oh yeah, whatever. Have you ever really  thought about what it means to be dead in your trespasses and sins? And you he made alive, when you were dead through the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience. Among these we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, following the desires of body and mind, and so we were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. Ephesians 2:1-3 And you, who were dead in trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, Colossians 2:13 Trespass: Wrongful entry upon the lands of another. To commit a transgression or offense; transgress; offend; sin. Arrogantly step across the line. ...

"The price is certainly high for people who don't know Christ and live in a world where Christians shrink back from self-denying faith and settle into self-indulging faith. While Christians choose to spend their lives fulfilling the American dream instead of giving their lives to proclaiming the kingdom of God, literally billions in need of the Gospel remain in the dark" -David Platt

O Love That Will Not Let me Go ~ Incredible Grace Music 1. O Love that will not let me go, I rest my weary soul in thee; I give thee back the life I owe, That in thine ocean depths its flow May richer, fuller be. 2. O Light that followest all my way, I yield my flickering torch to thee; My heart restores it's borrowed ray, That in thy sunshine's blaze its day May brighter, fairer be. 3. O Joy that seekest me through pain, I cannot close my heart to thee; I trace the rainbow through the rain, And feel the promise is not vain, That morn shall tearless be. 4. O Cross that liftest up my head, I dare not ask to fly from thee; I lay in dust life's glory dead, And from the ground there blossoms red Life that shall endless be.