Forever in Love with Jesus. . .
To be intimately in Love with Him should be our ultimate goal.
Not just moments of sporadicity (i think i just made up a new word...) in other words..moments of being sporadic - spontaneous - like..."oh hey!" moments lol...catch my drift? When we happen to come to the realization that it's been a good week or so since we've dove deep in the Word. Or our life has maybe gotten a little rocky lately? So maybe we should say a few prayers just to get us through the week.....STOP!
Stop right there.
If you think that that is considered a healthy relationship with God the Father, you are so very wrong!
Time spent with God is never wasted.
If you think that just knowing of God is enough - then you need a reality check my friend. God desires that we have an intimate - deep - personal relationship with Him, it's His greatest desire!
Think of your relationship with God - as a marriage relationship. He wants you to vow to Stand with Him for Better or for Worse, in the Good times and in the Bad...He wants you to depend on Him, to Trust Him, to Know that He will provide for you - despite what might come your way.
I will be honest, I am guilty of not having a very intimate relationship with Him - my life used to consist of sporadic moments of Bible Reading and Praying........until a few moments - times in my life - that really hit home for me, and caused me to come closer to God that I will ever be able to comprehend. As i write this....i am holding back tears for various reasons. One reason is for a person I hold dear to my heart - on the other hand, it is because I am so taken back at the way God works...all throughout my life He has been there, holding my hand...and carrying me thru the sand in the worst of times. I am also just so thankful! for All He has done. He truly blows my mind sometimes.
I have made the conscious decision to draw near to Him, so that He will draw near to me. I don't ever want to drift far from Him ever again. The devil has a funny way of pulling us further and further from God so secretively that we don't even notice until we are so far away that we find it hard to come back to Him. Little do we ever remember, that He is always waiting with arms open WIDE - ready to EMBRACE us all. Regardless of what we've done, He loves us for WHO WE ARE. Not for who we will become.
God can bring us together, He can also drive us apart....If He drives you apart from someone, it is to teach one or the other a very important lesson. Remember, God is the ONLY one that can see the BIGGER Picture. We can never comprehend what is going on in His mind, because His thoughts are not our Thoughts. His ways are NOT our ways, even tho sometimes we'd like them to be, eh?
DRAW NEAR TO GOD AND HE WILL DRAW NEAR TO YOU.
Fall Forever In Love With Jesus Now, and for all eternity. <3
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Absolutely Meaningless.
We are all searching for something.......
A new job. a new spouse. a new friend. a new car. a new purpose. a new church. a new life...
Too many of us are so attached to our possessions. We think that we have to cling to them like there is no tomorrow, we are all trying to get something better all the time...
When it comes down to it, all these things are absolutely meaningless...unless you've got 1 thing at the heart of it all. If you are pursuing Christ, and realize that nothing in this earth can ever satisfy the hunger that Jesus fulfills...then your on the right track :)
Possessions are possessions...they come and they go, they are never with you forever. You need to be rooted deep in your faith - and know that Jesus NEVER Changes, He never leaves....moths and rust will consume our possessions one day, you can't take them with you when you leave.
Put your focus on God. Stay rooted so you will not be easily swayed.
Everything in this earth is meaningless, without Christ.
With Christ, you can do great things.
"I can do ALL things THRU Christ who gives me STRENGTH"
A new job. a new spouse. a new friend. a new car. a new purpose. a new church. a new life...
Too many of us are so attached to our possessions. We think that we have to cling to them like there is no tomorrow, we are all trying to get something better all the time...
When it comes down to it, all these things are absolutely meaningless...unless you've got 1 thing at the heart of it all. If you are pursuing Christ, and realize that nothing in this earth can ever satisfy the hunger that Jesus fulfills...then your on the right track :)
Possessions are possessions...they come and they go, they are never with you forever. You need to be rooted deep in your faith - and know that Jesus NEVER Changes, He never leaves....moths and rust will consume our possessions one day, you can't take them with you when you leave.
Put your focus on God. Stay rooted so you will not be easily swayed.
Everything in this earth is meaningless, without Christ.
With Christ, you can do great things.
"I can do ALL things THRU Christ who gives me STRENGTH"
Sunday, July 10, 2011
We all just wanna be loved. . . . .not consumed
Isn't it the truth. Regardless of where we are in life, who is in our life, what we are doing...bottom line is, we want someone to talk to, and someone to love us back.
If a love you give is not returned, it's the worse feeling in the world.
We all want a friend.
We all want to be loved.
We all want to feel important.
We all want someone to talk to.
Part of being human, is communicating and fellowshipping with others - if we don't have some kind of connection with someone else we lose touch with the world, and start to think that nobody cares.
Some things you can do to keep yourself in check with yourself and people around you:
It helps to surround yourself with positive friends...that is a big help. Another thing you can do is keep a journal - write down all the positive, fun times you've shared with people in the past...keep reading it, even years down the road - it will keep your memory fresh with good memories :)
Get involved in a good church, and if you can't do that...get a friend that can keep you accountable to read your Bible.
Make a choice to be 100% devoted to God. If you live in FULL dependence on Him, you are living the life of a true disciple.
Become aware of your relationships.
It's important to realize the relationship you do have with some people, don't let life get you so consumed that you realize too late that you didn't spend enough time with someone. Don't let your relationships fall by the wayside. Life is funny in the way that it LOVES to consume us! Put ur foot down now. Make the choice to NOT let life consume you. Remember, we are supposed to be NOTW. (not of this world)
Stand out! Be different! Don't be consumed.
If a love you give is not returned, it's the worse feeling in the world.
We all want a friend.
We all want to be loved.
We all want to feel important.
We all want someone to talk to.
Part of being human, is communicating and fellowshipping with others - if we don't have some kind of connection with someone else we lose touch with the world, and start to think that nobody cares.
Some things you can do to keep yourself in check with yourself and people around you:
It helps to surround yourself with positive friends...that is a big help. Another thing you can do is keep a journal - write down all the positive, fun times you've shared with people in the past...keep reading it, even years down the road - it will keep your memory fresh with good memories :)
Get involved in a good church, and if you can't do that...get a friend that can keep you accountable to read your Bible.
Make a choice to be 100% devoted to God. If you live in FULL dependence on Him, you are living the life of a true disciple.
Become aware of your relationships.
It's important to realize the relationship you do have with some people, don't let life get you so consumed that you realize too late that you didn't spend enough time with someone. Don't let your relationships fall by the wayside. Life is funny in the way that it LOVES to consume us! Put ur foot down now. Make the choice to NOT let life consume you. Remember, we are supposed to be NOTW. (not of this world)
Stand out! Be different! Don't be consumed.
Live For Today
Hey everyone...
So..........................................a lot has happened recently in my life. More than i care to share at this moment - but i would like to share my thoughts.
ATM (at the moment) I am listening to one of my favorite songs...'Life For Today' by Natalie Grant.
This song is such a wonderful reminder...so many times I tend to try to live in tomorrow, try to figure out tomorrow, try to set my direction for. . .tomorrow - when in all reality, All i can do is live my life one way, and that's for Today.
Despite all that has happened, Im going to try to remember to just take each day one step at a time, and live for today. That's all i can do...
Another thought...I can't do this alone. There is one person I can always turn to - I am so thankful for that. I am committed to God 100% - as best to my ability. He is my life. He is why i live. He is why i love. He is why i am kind. etc..........He is my ALL.
anyways..just random thoughts in no such order at all :)
So..........................................a lot has happened recently in my life. More than i care to share at this moment - but i would like to share my thoughts.
ATM (at the moment) I am listening to one of my favorite songs...'Life For Today' by Natalie Grant.
This song is such a wonderful reminder...so many times I tend to try to live in tomorrow, try to figure out tomorrow, try to set my direction for. . .tomorrow - when in all reality, All i can do is live my life one way, and that's for Today.
Despite all that has happened, Im going to try to remember to just take each day one step at a time, and live for today. That's all i can do...
Another thought...I can't do this alone. There is one person I can always turn to - I am so thankful for that. I am committed to God 100% - as best to my ability. He is my life. He is why i live. He is why i love. He is why i am kind. etc..........He is my ALL.
anyways..just random thoughts in no such order at all :)
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