He just...IS.

I seem to be filled and overflowing with praise on the inside. It's taking over and it's an incredible place to be! Lately I've felt a lot of guilt, a lot of unworthiness and a lot of confusion. One of those times where you're just blah on the inside. It's doesn't make sense and I don't know why it happens, but I've felt a breakthrough.

Nothing really significant has cause it 0 just happened. Nothing significant needs to happen to produce praise to God. He is God - period. I praise Him because of who He is. He is the Creator, the Protector, the Provider. He is pove, patience, kindness. He is justice and mercy. He became Flesh and that Flesh is my Salvation - that Flesh can be your Salvation, too, if you so choose.

God doesn't have to, or need to do anything for my praise - He just Is, and that's enough!

I am not but He IS - and I know Him.

"Cause you had a bad day..."

It's only 9:40 AM but it's already been one of those days. A day where NOTHING goes the way you want it to and you just want to blame everyone and everything else for your problems. I think it actually started last night and just hasn't ended yet.

I'm not usually a person of bad temper or anger, but frustration with multiple things has built up and is now showing itself. It's ugly. These are the times that I have to remind myself that God is bigger than anything that frustrates me and it all pales in comparison to what I have in Him.

Yea, easy to say but in the heat of the moment not so easy to put into practice.

Sinful nature is sneaky. I'm on a mountaintop on minute and the next I'm down in a pit with the dogs, acting just like them. Funny how that happens. Funny how it shows me over and over just how much I have to depend on Him and I can't be good on my own accord. I can't go through the day without His help to push past frustration and honor Him with my words and actions.

On days like this I'm even more thankful for the forgiveness offered through Christ for my selfishness, bad attitude and every other sin I commit.

I think my day is getting better already...

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"Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be." - Thomas a Kempis

I needed to read that today...thought I would share.

I want...

I want...

...to be challenged and stimulated
...everyday to be different
...to phileo and strive to agape one man for the rest of my life, and love others as myself the way Christ did
...to see God move in a huge way
...to be able to keep my room clean longer than a week :)
...to travel to foreign countries and experience other cultures
...to be 50 and still as spontaneous as I was in college
...God to use me

I want my life to count for God's glory and not be hindered by fear or apprehension.

You Are...

God, there is no life greater! I want the world to know that but they don't see You like I see you. They don't know You like that. They see a tainted version of You. One that isn't You at all. They see what man has made you out to be, and that isn't You at all.

You are the God of love. Love comes down to us, takes on flesh, endures persecution, dies a painful death and raises again - all to take on what He did not do, what we did to You. Love pursues those that run and doesn't give up. Love is patient when we rebel and works to change our hearts. You are love and there is nothing we can do about it.

You are the God of beauty. Beauty looks to the heart and comes from the heart. Beauty is colors that can't be made by human hands. Beauty is nature that is beyond comprehension. Beauty is Christ pursuing His bride.

You are the God of salvation. Salvation meets us where we are and pulls us out of our pits. Salvation prevents us from a doomed eternity. Salvation gives us a second chance to be a new creation and forget what is in the past.

Salvation allows us to love. Beauty allows us to love. You allow us to love because You love us enough to find and rescue our souls.

Inspired by Psalm 146