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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.