Saturday, April 28, 2012

Love love love

Hello, everyone! Sorry I haven't posted in awhile. I've missed you all.

Today I stumbled across a blog of a very Godly man who posts things like "What God says about kissing" and "How should we, Biblically, treat someone who has wronged us", you know. Things like that. Well let me just tell you. He left the comment box open for people to let him know how they felt about the subject. Mostly the comments were filled with drama and personal experiences. Most of which, I'd prefer not to repeat.  But the way one so called "Christian" treated another so called "Christian" disgusted me. One of the most important things God talks about is love. There are 393 scriptures in the Bible that mention or contain the world love. I would say that's a lot. We are so quick to judge someone else when we don't agree with them, but really God calls us to love. To lay it at His feet, to walk away, and to pray for them. That would be more influential to that person that you disagree with anyways. Wouldn't it?

One of my favorite verses lately is Galatians 2:20.  


"I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me."

Wow. I don't know about you. But wow. Once we say yes to Christ, it isn't about us. It isn't about what we want, or how we feel. No, I don't always feel like loving people. And of course we make mistakes. But what makes us set apart, is loving when it's most difficult. 

After all, it isn't our job to condemn people, but yet it is the Holy Spirits' job to convict.


Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Eggs and Tulips

Happy spring everyone!

It's almost Easter. You know what that means. For most people it means, coloring eggs, getting candy, and spending time with your relatives. But for me it means thanking Jesus for laying his life down for me, and picking up that sin laden cross and carrying it all the way to the hill of Golgotha. He died there. For me. So that I could know fullness of life. In Him. What greater gift could we have? I love Easter time. It's my favorite time of the year. One of the reasons being that, our Church has a Easter production called The Promise. It's a blessing to the people in our community, and a blessing to me. Sometimes it's easy to forget what Easter is about, because of what society has made it about. But when you're in the word, and portraying the best story ever told, you can't help but remember. It pierces your heart in a way I can't explain.

Our Choir, and the angels. I'm the angel on the far right.