some missing entries..
December 21st, 2007
the holidays. it’s that time of the year again… such a lovely time. all of our family is coming into town this weekend and it’s going to be so good to see everyone again. a family member is going to iraq at the beginning of the year so it’ll be nice to say goodbye before he leaves. the last few days we’ve been baking, wrapping and getting things ready. it’s so easy to get distracted by the commericalism of the holidays. it so easy, at least for me, to take my eyes off the simplicity of Christ’s birth during this hectic time of the year. just to think that God came in human form…humbly to take the sins of His people. the magnitude of His purpose is amazing. it is a beautiful and timeless story & it is the story of our redemption.
yesterday i finished my bible college application and sent it on its way. i’m excited but at the same time trusting that the Lord will work everything out in His good will. i picked up don’t waste your life by john piper yesterday and it really made me think.
“this is the promise that empowers us to take risks for the sake of Christ. it is not the impulse of heroism, or the lust for adventure, or the courage of self-reliance, or the need to earn God’s favor. it is simple to trust Christ- that in him God will do everything necessary so that we can enjoy making much of him forever.”
…this is so good and so true. i’m not sure what this has to do with a bible application but oh well :] i guess it’s just the fact of taking a risk, taking a chance…for the cause of Christ.
alright, well.. may it be a merry little christmas… i think tonight i might even go to downtown cincinnati and do a little holiday somethin’. i am praying that my life will bless Jesus as a new year begins…. :]
love & peace. +
“but he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” therefore i will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. that is why, for Christ’s sake, i delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. for when I am weak, then i am strong.”
II corinthians 12:9-10
“…in weaknesses.” this is so opposite of having pride isn’t it? when i am considered weak, i have brokenness…i have chosen to throw away the pride that rests upon me. pride, however, is something that most people deal with and i am probabaly one of the biggest candidates. i’m learning to be transparent, open, and honest and i will say that sometimes pride is so heavy that it can blind you to the fact that you even have pride! i can’t get over how sinful pride is and yet, somehow, i find it creeping into my life in some way or another. i want to protect my rights, i want to live with humility, but the more i try in my own strength…the more i try and do good, the bigger my pride becomes. to actually surrender my rights, to surrender my pride and let the Lord take full control and be the One to show me what true humility is…wasn’t Jesus the greatest example of humility?
“my grace is sufficient…” and yet His grace is sufficient. i am sitting here at my desk this morning and i can’t get over how beautiful this is. His grace really is sufficient. i know that i don’t have to go around covering up my sin because He has already forgiven my heart. when i’m truly repentant His grace takes over and there is freedom. what a blessed thing. this makes me so excited about life, you know? knowing that i have been forgiven, that i have a God who saves, and a life that is here to glorify the Savior…what a beautiful thing…for when i am weak, then i am strong.
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