PROCESS AND TIME

I haven't been on here and here's why... I process biblical truths day in and day out... I started writing this blog as an outlet to record what I was thinking. I still think, more and more, I just can't find time to write! One day again maybe.

NEW LIBERTIES

God did the work, we can now come to God through Jesus. He made it easier to approach Him. However, insodoing, He made it easier for us to disregard the intensity of His character. We have new liberties that often ensnare us rather than bring us closer to Him.

ALREADY DONE

We all know that God doesn't need us to carry out His work. There is nothing we can do that He hasn't used somebody else to do or by now thought of. So in the end, all we are are glorious little reproductions of what He's already done.

CHARACTER

I am in love with God. There was a time when I didn't know if I could say that. So I attempted to get to know Him by picking one of His characteristics and studying Him. If you want to build character, you have to seek first His character.

MARCH

This month marks a lot of occasions for me. The birth of my beloved sister and cherished father. It also holds personal significance. I can't believe how quickly the months are flying by. I am consumed with the swiftness of life. Remember to love God and pray without ceasing.

APATHY

Each country has their problems, spiritual and physical. There is a type of persecution in America, we are cursed with material blessings. In the United States, it's so easy to not care! Everything that happens to us seems like it's the end of the world; our perspective isn't correct!

INCLUDED

God doesn't need us. He wants us to be included in His plans. He put Adam in the garden and told Him to till the ground and multiply. There was still work to be done and He wanted to include His creation, because He gets joy from that communion!

PEOPLE AND MUSIC

This last year has been the most difficult of my life. For so many reasons. If you knew me in the last year you may have seen it. I've gone through substantial changes... and a beard, and the outcome has been for the better. Read/hear the full story here.

UNCONDITIONAL

I love love. It's a fact. I used to be obsessed with the idea of romanticism and I'd get lost in ideas of ways to pursue it. The only type of love though that doesn't fade is unconditional, and it's not romantic; One day maybe, but God for everyday.

CYNICAL

This may be bad, but I think I have grown used to the wickedness in the world. Not in participating, but in the knowledge of it's existence. I expect bad to happen everyday... So in a way, although cynical, hopeful... when something does go right, it is allthemore better.

DESERVE

When I pray it's often in comparison to others; asking why I have or do not have certain... what I'd consider blessings; like I've convinced myself I deserve something for... good behavior or posterity. When I deserve nothing but have the favor of The King because of His grace.

OVERSEER

It says, almost as a theme in the Psalms, that God watches over the nations. Implying that He is overseeing everything that happens on earth; What a comforting thought. In many of these same Psalms, the Psalmist speaks of God's steadfast love; Because He loves us, He watches over us.

SIN

If you could imagine the worst thing to happen to anyone; it would have to be death. I guarantee there's nothing worse. Nothing more painful. A blameless man, became death, so we can have life, because sin is that great. Selah, the next time sin creeps into your mind.

OH, THE BUSYNESS

I'm sorry I haven't been blogging as much lately. As Dr. Seuss once said, "Oh, the places you'll go!" Hopefully those places are welcoming. I have been working on something that I will be posting soon. So hopefully that will compensate to the lack-luster nothing I have been doing.

VOICES

The more I resist Him, the more I hear Him speak to me; He calls me in, He draws me close. He tells me He waits for me, that He needs me. As a people we tend to hear voices that are not His. Learn to discern His voice.

SPEAKING

Today I did something very stupid. I have these moments sometimes where I speak before thinking. I don't even mean what I say, but I say it anyway, and it's the most destructive thing ever. I hate the tongue at times. We all know what James says about it.

FRONTS

Making fronts is usually a bad idea. Today is the biggest front that I put on. It's like the largest thing that can be built up for the largest let down. Sometimes it doesn't blow up, but if it is good, then isn't that vain? Oh well. God bless.

IMPRESS

We spend a lot of time trying to impress others. If not others, then ourselves, which is usually an image no one can measure up to that was projected on us by others. What if we stopped living to impress everyone but God; who doesn't need to be impressed.

GLORY

Tonight I got bogged down by insecurity and jealousy; nothing new. I was praying about this, because feeling this way is not Godly, and I was reminded that our purpose for living is to glorify God, and that I'm being selfish trying to glorify myself. The pressure then left.

THICK AND THIN

It's not easy to press on in the face of adversity. However it becomes easier the more you are in love with God. Like someone who is there for you. The creator of the universe is there by your side throughout whatever ordeal may come; making each situation better.

PERSONAL

There are many things our God isn't, that we take for granted because our God is. For example; Our God is relatable, and personal. He has not separated Himself from us making Himself distant and impersonal. But humbled Himself to our flesh and died. What. A. Good. God.

KINGDOM PRINCIPLE: 1 JOHN 5:9-13

We believe the testimony and the witness of the Spirit, that Jesus is the way. Because of this, we bring our witness into the world, testifying of the things we have seen. If we don't bring that truth to the world, we don't believe the testimony of the Spirit.