I Was Wrong (Divorce)

I still feel every emotion that I felt those few years ago when I pounded out those posts to my invisible audience. Every passionate stand against sin, every painful heartbreak over failed relationships, every joyful song over the love I felt as I typed out “Abba”…

It feels like a lifetime ago. I have some things to say that may contradict my previous writings… but life is a bit of a contradiction. With that, we might as well get right to the point:

                I married a guy I’d bumped into a few times at Christian camps. Honestly? I thought he wasn’t too bad looking and then I went on with my life. I didn’t care. My head and heart was set on God and if he wasn’t showing any real interest in me, I wasn’t going to bother much with it.

Watered while in Drought

This morning as I was reading through some old notes I came to a list of verses I've memorized. I began flipping through my bible to refresh them and then I came to Isaiah 58:11... now here's what I read in my translation (NKJV):

"The Lord will guide you continually,
And satisfy your soul in drought,
And strengthen your bones;
You shall be like a watered garden,
And like a spring of water, whose
waters do not fail."

Little Things [they matter]

Remember that a little leavens the whole loaf (Galatians 5:9); just a drop of snake’s venom in your blood can still be fatal. It’s the little things that do count. God is willing to give the most unsuspecting person a makeover, but who takes a makeover, loves it for a little while then throws it out the window? It’s something you keep and build on.

Judging the right way.

I was listening to an awesome man of God preach some truth from Matthew 7:5; after listening I turned it off to go to the scriptures. When I turned to my Bible to look up the verse he was coming from, I noticed another verse that stuck out.

Judge not, that you be not judged.
Matthew 7:1 (NKJV)

Fellow Warriors...

God has up “Lost” posters everywhere. He stays up at night with tears in His eyes just aching for when those lost will return to what He originally created humanity for. He's got search parties organized and the house is set up and waiting for the return of the person who went astray (Luke 15:20-24).

You see, those who have not accepted Jesus into their life as their personal Savior, are not known by God… He longs for the lost, the Lord wants them back, and He’s asked His children to go out and open their eyes to the home they’ve been walking past for years as orphans.

In the midst of all this the one who convinced them that there is no God, no loving Abba, no hope and that they are alone; is doing everything he can to split up the search party. And so far he's doing a pretty good job...

180 not a 360

How many times a day do we say something to someone, jokingly or not, and them realize we hurt them? What is our first response usually? "Oh well I didn't mean it" or "I was just kidding, geez..." The thing is though words do hurt. And it doesn't make someone bad at taking a joke when it hurts them.

The bible has something to say about this sort of thing:

When the Battles Come

Have you ever noticed the small words that are etched near the bottom of car’s side-windows? They tend to read: Objects in mirror are closer than they appear. I remember when I first learned how to read and discovered this short but very important detail here, I was awed. The things in the mirror didn’t look that close…

Testing..

 So it's testing time again...

CHRISTmas

Christmas..not about a fat old stalker who comes to eat your food and leave you thingsbased on how good you were..but about how it all started; about how God sent a child to be born purely.. to live every step of this life as we do (even high school..now that's love!) to die for us..no matter how bad we've been and whether or not we accepted our Saviour's mercy.

Christmas is a day we take to remember.. what are we that our God would come from Heaven to go through what He did...for us. It was our own punishment He took for us.

And I will sing to Him for that!! Hallelujah!

Battles

We all know that we're in a spiritual war.

Always. Constantly. It doesn't stop.

As Christian's its the life we've chosen...