Awesome God
I hope to convey in this online journal what my AWESOME God is doing in my life. He is for sure a life-changing God. To know this Truth is to experience His abundant life. And believe me, He came to give life in FULLNESS. John 10:10 speaks of this i think. Yesterday, I read an encouraging verse in Chron. 22:19: "Now, DEVOTE your heart and soul to seeking the Lord your God. Begin to BUILD the SANCUARY of the Lord God." Wow. Devote...commit, be ENTRALLED in..this is all calling for TOTAL devotion. Our God does not call us to half obedience, and He does not demad half devotion...He should not have to compete for our full devotion. However, because we are human, so often He is put in that position..we force Him to compete with our other "lovers". Hosea 2 and Ezekiel 16 talk about this in detail...Jeremiah 3 talks of "sitting on the side of the road waiting for other lovers." Today, I ask you as well as myself, what other lovers am I waiting and seeking? Whatever that may be..whether a particular relationship or self image or anything that we base our security or identity on is an idol. In Hebrews, we are called to "cast off the sin that so easily entangles us"...what is that for you? I know I have some things that immediately come to mind..and i know i want to cast those off completely...not with a gentle goodbye but with a strong shove out of my life...no longer do i want to live a life of distraction, of half-devotion to my King. He gets ALL of me..for in Songs it says "My Lover is mine and i am His!" How sweet is that!? :) When i seek Him with ALL my heart, I find Him...James 4:8 also says, "draw near to me and i will draw near to Him." I don't just want to know these verses...they are ingrained in my heart so that i may apply them fully...can i live a life WORTHY of the calling? Can I, as Paul says, "conduct myself in a manner WORTHY of the GOSPEL of Christ? I will do all i can to glorify Him!
Wholly His, Kate
I hope to convey in this online journal what my AWESOME God is doing in my life. He is for sure a life-changing God. To know this Truth is to experience His abundant life. And believe me, He came to give life in FULLNESS. John 10:10 speaks of this i think. Yesterday, I read an encouraging verse in Chron. 22:19: "Now, DEVOTE your heart and soul to seeking the Lord your God. Begin to BUILD the SANCUARY of the Lord God." Wow. Devote...commit, be ENTRALLED in..this is all calling for TOTAL devotion. Our God does not call us to half obedience, and He does not demad half devotion...He should not have to compete for our full devotion. However, because we are human, so often He is put in that position..we force Him to compete with our other "lovers". Hosea 2 and Ezekiel 16 talk about this in detail...Jeremiah 3 talks of "sitting on the side of the road waiting for other lovers." Today, I ask you as well as myself, what other lovers am I waiting and seeking? Whatever that may be..whether a particular relationship or self image or anything that we base our security or identity on is an idol. In Hebrews, we are called to "cast off the sin that so easily entangles us"...what is that for you? I know I have some things that immediately come to mind..and i know i want to cast those off completely...not with a gentle goodbye but with a strong shove out of my life...no longer do i want to live a life of distraction, of half-devotion to my King. He gets ALL of me..for in Songs it says "My Lover is mine and i am His!" How sweet is that!? :) When i seek Him with ALL my heart, I find Him...James 4:8 also says, "draw near to me and i will draw near to Him." I don't just want to know these verses...they are ingrained in my heart so that i may apply them fully...can i live a life WORTHY of the calling? Can I, as Paul says, "conduct myself in a manner WORTHY of the GOSPEL of Christ? I will do all i can to glorify Him!
Wholly His, Kate
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