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The only other person I have fallen in love with that way is Jesus, and I hope that goes more smoothly. I hope I remember, when I'm bored with Him, and antsy, and sick of brushing my teeth next to the same god every morning, I hope I remember not to leave Him. I am not so worried that He will leave me. The Bible, after all, is full of stories about God sticking with His bride, no matter how stiff-necked and prideful and unfaithful she may be.
Girl Meets God by Lauren Winner
O LORD, ... be not silent. Do not be far from me, O Lord. — Psalm 35:22-23
Religion is Scary. God is not.
Often times I get most amongst the throughs of religion. Of the rules and regulations, the statutes and the laws. And those are important don't get me wrong, but there is something far more important. I felt Love and The Outcome did a wonderful job explaining it with their song The God I Know. Its about a real and personal relationship with our God, and it hits my point right on the nail. "If it was all about religion, what to do, what to say, what to wear on a Sunday. All about perfection, wrong or right, black or white, never grey. Well I'd never make it. I'd never be good enough." Christianity is not about being perfect. Its not about hellfire and damnation. Christianity, plain and simple, is about having someone omniscient with you always. Its about having a God that will strive for a relationship with you, if only you do the same for Him.
You’re not going backward; you’re going forward! “Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God.” Hebrews 6:1 It’s a new season, my sister, and it’s a new day! God is putting the wind back in your sails. He is showing […] Powered by Como: http://www.como.com
Time often feels like an enemy because it seems to work against us. We look back over the years and wonder where they’ve gone. We look back over the weeks and months and get frustrated with ourselves because of the progress that we haven’t made. But when we find ourselves feeling this way, we must remind ourselves of this: Isn’t time in God’s hands? Doesn’t He hold our yesterday, today, and tomorrow in His mighty hands? Yes, the clock may be ticking in this physical world, but that doesn’t mean that the best of our days are behind us. That doesn’t mean that there isn’t enough time for God to make things beautiful. His timing is perfect, and though it can be hard to grasp this when the days and years seem to fade into one another, continue to hold onto this: _ He has made everything beautiful in its time. - Ecclesiastes 3:11 _ He’s going to work it out! And He doesn’t need our timelines and deadlines to do a miraculous work in our lives! So as you wait, don’t spend your life waiting around doing nothing. Spend your time living, loving, and serving. Become so invested in others and the opportunities God has placed in your life that you’re no longer thinking about what you don’t have all the time. Get to the point where you can scroll past something on social media that you desire to have and you no longer feel empty because you don’t have it. Get to the point where you’re so excited about what God is doing today that you don’t even have time to worry about next year right now. You get to that point but gaining this kind of perspective: “I know God has me in this moment and this season for a reason. So I’m going to make the most of it. Not worried if I’m missing out or if my time is almost up. Time is in HIS hands, and through Jesus, I will make the most of it everyday.” _ Written by @morganhnichols for #qwcdevos
When fear says to you, “Girl, you better run!” “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind” 2 Timothy 1:7, NKJV. Standing at the altar, having just said our weddings vows; it was now time for him to put the ring on my finger. But something happened that caused a wave […] Powered by Como: http://www.como.com
Worship is more than a song; It is a lifestyle.
But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. Romans 6:21
Sure you were free from the burden of having to to the right thing and free from answering to anyone but yourself. You were not truly free though.
Giving our allegiance to God means that when we believe in him, we can cast off the chains of slavery to sin and be truly free. The fruit of a life lived in Christ is sanctification and eternal life. (See Romans 6:22-23)
Whenever I’m faced with making a decision in my life no matter how big or small, my first instinct is to pray.
Prayer should be the natural outflow of the soul: you should pray because you must pray, not because the set time for praying has arrived, but because your heart must cry unto your Lord.
Charles Spurgeon (via risinghopeandstrength)
Amen
– Matthew 28:18
God is Everywhere
We live in a time where there is little hope. There is war, poverty, starvation and so, so much suffering. Oftentimes we lose faith in humanity, and - if your like me- you can also lose hope in yourself. How can you resist the temptation that surrounds us? How can you believe in an omnipresent, all-powerful God when there is such misery? Well, I may not have all the answers, but I do have one.
God is all around us. He’s everywhere. He’s in the trees, in the shape of the mountains, and it the air we breathe. But, no, it doesn’t just stop there. God is in the way our bodies convert food to energy. God is in the way molecules multiply and divide. He’s in Einstien’s theory of relativity. He’s in the way a star runs out of nuclear fuel, loses it’s mass to it’s core and collapses into a supernova. He’s in the way a director talks about creating a movie about the life of the Apostle Paul in our local Little Ceasars to market to young people (true story, by the way. I really did overhear a man talking about this.) God is in the way a young, teenage cashier at Ingles told every single customer she had to “Have a Blessed Day.” God is everywhere, if you just know where to look.
But most importantly, He lives in each and every one of us. He loves us with reckless abandon, and He wants the best for all of us. Through the suffering, and all this world has to throw at us, there is one constant. Our God is with us.
“When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you. For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior.” (Isaiah 43:2-3)
The Greatest Commandment
As Christians we tend to get lost in the midst of the laws and regulations. This Deacon does this, that teacher does that. Don’t you dare lie, don’t you dare steal, don’t you dare commit adultry. And all of these things are important to abstain from, because living as sin free as we possibly can will bring us closer to God’s blessings but many of us are forgetting something very important as Christians. The Law has got us in trouble before. Remember the Pharisee? Remember why Jesus came and died on Calvary?
The Pharisee’s asked Jesus once, “Teacher, what is the greatest commandment in the law?” Surely they were expecting something like “Don’t kill thy brethren” or “don’t speak blasphemy” (which they would all end up being guilty of in the end anyway.) But instead, Jesus answered. “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” (Matthew 22:37-39) He put it out there, plain and simple.
So why do we as Christians find it necessary to cast judgement on our brothers and sisters? Why do we scorn those who don’t share our insight or our opinions? If we do in fact love the Lord with all our hearts, then why do we doubt his creation? We were all made in His image, and He loves each and every one of us despite our sins. He doesn’t want to see any of us burn in hell, so why do we hate with such passion those who have done us wrong? We are human, after all. But shouldn’t we strive for a godly perception? Love those who do us wrong, lift them up to the Lord and pray for them. Love the Lord your God, and love thy neighbor. This is the Greatest Commandment. Strive for it. Fall short of it. And get right back up and strive for it again.
The Little Things
Depression is no joke. I’ve been struggling with it for longer than I can remember. My own depression and anxiety stems from post traumatic stress disorder aquired while I was dealing with various parts of my childhood/adolencence. It’s a long and miserable story that honestly doesn’t matter anyway, so I won’t share.
There is something I will share though. Crippled by a darkness that I couldn’t explain, seeing no happiness around me and knowing full well that it was a saddness unprecedented, I knew earlier today that today was going to be a bad day. I was tired from a lack of sleep, unable to escape the thought that there was no hope for my future and that there was no light at the end of my tunnel. I can’t explain it, and honestly I don’t want to. My new medication has yet to kick in (even after 4 weeks) and none of my calming exercises or attempts of my husband to make it better were working. I couldn’t even move off of my bed to go get my prayer journal. I hadn’t eaten much all day, and I had no appetite. Nothing was bringing me joy. I just laid there, wrapped up in my tears and praying for relief. It was when my husband went to get my daughter out of the bath that I began to sing. It was my prayer song, the song I sing when I have no words in my heart for God. “Once and For All” by Lauren Daigle. Don’t ask me why I chose that song, because I don’t even know. But the words speak volumes.
“God I give you what I can today, these scattered ashes that I’ve hid away. I lay them all at Your feet. From the corners of my deepest shame. The empty places where I’ve worn Your Name. Show me the love I say I believe. Oh Lord I lay it down. Help me to lay it down. Oh let this be…where I die. My Lord with Thee, crucified. Be lifted high as my kingdoms fall. Once and for all. Once and for all. There is victory in my Saviors loss. In the crimson flowing from the cross. Pour over me…Pour over me.”
And that’s all I got out. I couldn’t say or even think the words of a prayer. My heart just pleaded for the misery to stop, for God to take it far from me.
And so He did.
My husband came back with my daughter, and they began trying to cheer me up. It wasn’t until Mark had given us both a peice of chocolate, quoting JK Rowlings Remus Lupin and making me crack a little smile, and then went off to get me a drink that God answered my prayer.
I looked down at my daughter, attempted my best smile, and told her Jesus loves her. Simple enough right? I had been trying to convince myself of the very same thing (that Jesus loved me even though I was so ungrateful for all the many blessings I have been given.) She smiled and told me “happy birthday.” I raised an eyebrow at her, wondering what in the world she was talking about. We had obviously talked about Jesus a lot in our household, attended vacation bible school and church every sunday. So I asked her “Amilee, do you know who Jesus is?” Just to make sure she remembered. She smiled and looked up at me with the beauty of a thousand stars in her eyes and said “Yeah, he’s an angel. Just like you.”
Just like me. To this child I was an angel. I immediantly wrapped her up in a tight hug, beaming for the first time all day from the bottom of my heart, and told her over and over again. “I love you, so much.” And she repeated back to me, “I love you so much, mama.”
My God is good, and he loves me unconditionally. He weeps when I weep, holds me as the pain wracks through my body, and meets me on the other side of a bad episode with joy in his heart. Oh, how He loves us. And oh how I love Him! I went from crying for relief from the pain, to crying tears of joy at the many blessings God has given me. If you struggle with depression, just know that you are NOT alone. He will go before you, and He will NEVER leave you. I know that now more than ever.
