So my mom has two little yorkies. One is Miley and the other is Lilly. Well Lilly loves to go outside and pretend to go to the bathroom so she can get a treat. Here she is after not using the bathroom.
So yeah the treats are up there, but alas, no one would give her one.
“Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart.” Psalm 37:4
I have been really thinking about this scripture a lot the past few days. I’ve quoted it to myself numerous times on numerous occasions. Mainly when I wanted something. I would say, “Oh Lord I delight myself in You…now can I have ____” It seems this scripture, at least for me, is always used when I want something.
But I’ve really been thinking and desiring to delight in God, just to delight in Him. No strings attached, just unabated desire for my king. My prayers have been, “Lord teach me delight in You. Just for who You are. Nothing more.” What would my life look like if my every moment was simply spent delighting in Him. I’d be a lot less stressed, a lot less selfish, a lot less insecure. It would change the entire way I looked at life.
So I ask you, oh faithful few who read my blog, when was the last time you delighted in the Lord to simply delight in Him?
So we haven’t done too much yet. Just some basic orientation stuff. Kinda getting to know everyone. Today we ran a 5k and had an amazing little service. God rocked it. So for the 5k I wanted to try to hold back and run and encourage everyone; you know be a leader. But I soon realized I’m not that good of a leader. I just couldn’t do it. Call me competitive or whatever, but I just couldn’t. Give me some slack because after I finished I took a lap with Mary Beth.
But yeah, everything has been going great. Can’t wait for everything to really get in the swing of things. Amazing race tomorrow and Wednesday. so yeah, bunches of fun
Ok so I love how faithful God is. It amazes me how far in advance He can think. How he sets you up and you don’t realize it till way later.
So last year in Elevate in group prayer we prayed for each person on a day and told them what we felt God was speaking to them. I just found the paper from on my day. It’s dated May 7, 2008. Here is what it says:
1. See a man laughing- let God fill you up with joy and laughter and happiness each day.
2. Stand close to God. He’s moving in you and has put you where you are for a reason.
3. Altitude: Your on an upward climb. You’ve bee making decisions to move upward, but let God progress you toward the top. Let Him decide what you need and don’t need in your life. Let God direct you and don’t let it be you.
4. Not by your strength!!! God is pleased with you but He wants you to depend on His strength.
5. Pioneer-It will be difficult to do new things, but He will go before you and make a way. That will be the hard part.
6. John the Baptist-John was really strong in the beginning. Then in prison, he sent out to ask Jesus if He was really the one. Don’t lose sight of who you are preaching Don’t lose focus of where it all started.
So yeah. When I read that today it really ministered to me like never before. You know when you first hear something like this, it’s hard to really apply it or sort it out, and then it’s like HELLO.
Today it said, HELLO.
So I’ve been pondering this thought kinda through out the week. Why is surrender such a hard thing to do? I mean it’s easy to say, “Lord I surrender this or that to You?” But then our lives don’t really reflect that declaration. I know in my life there have been many times where I told God that I surrender whatever and then I go on clinging to it. It’s like my head says yes and my heart says no. Ever found this to be true? I don’t think it has to do with a lack of desire. I really don’t know where to blame the inconsistency. So how do you really surrender something? Rather how do you know when you’ve truly surrendered it?
I guess it has to be when you can say that your content where you are or without the thing your trying to surrender. Easier said then done. IDK just a thought that’s been floating in my mind today.
So today is officially the first day of HPSM for the 2008-2009 School Year. I felt like a little kid this morning when I got a text wishing me good luck on my first day back to school.
I’m super pumped and yet really tired. A few of us went to Loui’s last night after the Hub. Got to bed around 2 and woke up at 5 to pick up smoothies for Pastor Mike’s Friday morning bible study.
So yeah, It’s officially begun. Back to long nights, early morning, and a lot of serving. Oh yeah HPSM has begun!
So the night before Caleb left for El Paso, we decided to go watch Wall.E. I thought I wouldn’t like it, but it turned out really good. Well one of the quotes that I really liked was when the Captain of whatever ship they were on was fighting with the computer. He said, “I don’t want to survive. I want to live.”
It seems like there are way too many people, myself included, that are content to just survive, instead of really living life. I don’t want to just survive. Jesus didn’t die for me to just survive. In fact the Bible says that jesus came to, “give me life and life abundant.”
Are you living or just surviving?
So I’m reading through this book called, The Pursuit of Holiness, by Jerry Bridges that Pastor Mike let me borrow the other day. I’ve decided that as I read something that really sticks out to me, I’m going to post the quote and share some thoughts.
“We need to be gripped by the fact that God hates all these (pride, lustful thoughts, jealousy, outburst of temper, etc.) things. We become so accustomed to our sins we sometimes lapse into a state of peaceful coexistence with them, but God never stops hating them.”
Wow! This is so true. It seems that the longer we struggle against something, the more likely we are to justify it as just something you struggle with or the way things are. That is not a legitimate excuse. In fact there are no legitimate excuses. Nothing takes away from the fact that God hates all of our sin.
Super challenging.
so It’s been a while since I’ve posted. kinda funny when i used to say those words it really was a looongg time since I posted. Ah but the blogger in me has been inspired if you will.
So just a quick update on whatever. I’ve just been chilling and working around the house of late. I took off of work a little early to relax and hang with my family before going at break neck speeds at HPSM. it’s been good and yet boring too. I’ve been able to play tennis with my dad, step-mom, sister, and her boyfriend alot lately. It’s been alot of fun. I’ve also been trying to finish up some fantasy series that I had started reading a while back. I’ve been to busy with HPSM and figured now would be a great time to catch up. so with that being said i read 2 books in a little over 2 days. Yeah, i was a little anti-social, and stayed up way too late. but they were both really good.
I’m currently re-excited about Robert Jordan’s last book. excuse me Brandon Sanderson. You see Robert Jordan died last year before completing the final book in a twelve part series stretching nearly 2 decades. to say i was upset at his passsing would be an understnatement. Well i’ve been reading on Brandon’s blog all the updates and stuff and have gotten pumped up about the new book. Can’t wait.
So yeah thats about it. Still praying some more money comes in the mail for HPSM because i’m still short, but i know God will work it out. he always does.
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