The Nearness of God

So, on the way back to work from my lunch break today I was listening to music from my iPhone and “Be Near” came on and I really really like this song. 

Your fullness is mine (Your fullness is mine)
Revelation divine (Revelation divine)
But oh to taste, 
to know much more than a page
To feel your embrace…

To feel your embrace, oh to taste. Yes! there is nothing in the world that compares to then overwhelming sweet taste of God;s love and the nearness of his presence. When I feel God close to me, a flood of inspiration, and courage just shoots through my body and my heart is lifted and oh to see the world through his eyes and with his presence right with you. There is nothing. Nothing better than that. 
Father I pray that as we go about our daily routines at work and at home that we would embrace you and your presence because it is so near to us always. Thank you Lord for always being present with us through the good times and the bad and God help us to confront the things we struggle with and let us confront with the strength only you can give. We love you Lord! In Jesus Name, Amen. 
May God Bless you with his sweet sweet presence!

That ‘ s it.

I was just hit with something.
No, not in the literal sense..:)
but all the same, something in my head just clicked.
God loves us and yes that is something that is very evident to us believers, but is it really? Do we at all times believe that He really loves us and if so then what about those really bad days when we feel like the dirt under the dirt under the dirt under the….(you get the point), but God loves us.
I couldn’t get past this thought. I don’t know why.
The thought is that no matter what we think about ourselves and how many mistakes we make God loves us so much that we cannot even comprehend it, it is no possible to put into words how much we mean to Him. Seriously. There aren’t words. They don’t exist. How friggin’ crazy is that!?
God created us in HIS IMAGE, so we are like God. Our beat and feel how God feels. The way we think and do things is somehow connected to him and his essence of who he is. We are His voice to the world, to tell who God is, what God is like and what God cares about. This thought is just so overwhelming to me.
Love that can’t be describe because the words don’t exist, they can’t exist but the Love is too big! It’s beyond us and our logical understanding of Love. I dont even know how to end this post but Im so overwhelmed with this Love that is beyond my understanding. God knows what we are thinking, before we think it. What we say before we even think about saying it. How many hairs that are on our heads, and man….that is just overwhelming.
All I can say to end this post is…..
Thank You God for seeing more in us than we could ever begin to see in ourselves. Thank you God.
God Loves us. That’s it.

Temptation & Value

Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. -Hebrews 12:2

Through Jesus’ life he faced as much temptation as we face and conquered it, now he was fully God and fully man, which is naturally difficult to understand, all the same Jesus faced the temptations that we face. In the wilderness Jesus by the prospect of power, influence, money, and worldly love. Things that as humans we are naturally tempted by, but what inherent value do all those things have? None. Money only has the value that we give. Its just a piece of paper. No value whatsoever. So, then how do we see ourselves as valuable. 
It’s simple really. 
In the beginning God created us in his image, the image of love, and then to even sweeter the pot even more he came and lived among us and then willingly submitted himself to worst death anyone could face in that time. That is where we find our value. God gives us value by love and grace and truth. There is nothing the world can provide that will come even close to comparing with that kind of value.  
So, i guess ill end with the same way I began with this post. 

“Fix your eyes on Jesus.” 

Cause that is where true value in yourself is found. 

Defining Moment

I love Easter Weekend. I really really do because I feel so inspired to be a child of the king! As I went to church tonight and listened to the songs and what our pastors said I was really overwhelmed by what God taught me tonight.
“Are we defined by sin or grace?”
God saw the brokenness and suffering of his people and….Easter happened. It is not just mere happenstance, there is a purpose for Easter. Because of Easter everything has changed. Everyday is a new day, our old selves are no more and we transform into our new selves, the things we did before dont fit with what we do now, we have nothing to fear, no failure or any amount of mistakes can take away what Easter does for us. It defines us for who we are…grace.
Do you realize how significant this really is? God changed everything with this one defining moment. This is so big that we dont even have to fear death anymore because Jesus conquered it! My Savior took my sins and placed them on his shoulders and willingly got crucified and died so that I may be forgiven and set right in the sight of God. It is by his grace that we are given this. Nothing else. Everything changed.
In One Defining Moment.

The Day After

I was wondering today what it would have been like to have been a disciple of Jesus the day after he was crucified….you know, like to have known this amazing being and seen the amazing things that he did and felt the true love of God in your being everyday and then he’s gone just like that.
Wow, what that must have been like really speaks to my heart today. I just wonder, and i feel much closer to the disciples, because they lost a friend or so they thought. Here’s to tomorrow when the SON SHALL RISE