The Beauty.

Hey there ladies and gentlemen!
Today I am inspired by my  pastor. At church on Sunday, his sermon really touched and spoke to me. Currently we are in the study of Genesis and seriously my mind is so blown! Ah who knew Genesis would be so complex and amazing. SO good. Anyways, Pastor Steve just went into such depth about God and His creation. Just take a minute and think of your favorite place in the whole entire world. For me there is a lot of places, but one in particular is in Cancun, Mexico on the beach staring at the ocean with the sun beating down on me. That place is so special to me! So I think about that and then I think about how God made it all. Have you ever thought how much water is in that thing? And how many living creatures are under there. Ah man it seriously makes me speechless, literally I can't talk about it, I get too excited haha! And lets not even mention the sand and the sky and all that haha oh man. Okay so with that being said...



Cancun, Mexico. My favorite place in the whole entire world.

It got me thinking.. If God created all this FOR us.. don't you think He cares about us more than anything? He made simply THE best and most creative things FOR us.. His children. I just came close to the realization of how much God loves us and then I had to stop thinking because it got too crazy haha. Just think about it. Next time you feel alone think about that. We're supposed to appreciate His beauty, and that is how we give back to Him... how easy is that? It seems unfair.

In Revelation 4:11 it says..

Just take a look at it.

Worthy, O Master! Yes our God!
Take the glory! The honor! The power!
You created it all.
It was created because you wanted it.

and another verse..
Isaiah 40:25-27...


“So—who is like me?
Who holds a candle to me?” says The Holy.
Look at the night skies:
Who do you think made all this?
Who marches this army of stars out each night,
counts them off, calls each by name
—so magnificent! so powerful!—
and never overlooks a single one?

Yeah woah.. Ha
So all we gotta do is praise the one who made all this.. How easy is that?
He's a good God, Amen?

Ignoring His creation and Him just leads to a downward spiral... So just spend some time and admire God. Tell Him what you love about Him! Try it.

You ARE good enough

Do you ever feel this way? Like you're not good enough for anything? I feel like this all the time actually. It's so easy to compare myself with others.. I go to a school with a bunch of hotties haha and am just surrounded by such beautiful all the time and it's just so easy for me to compare myself which is SO wrong! It may be harder for guys to relate to this, but I know this feeling and have become to familiar with it. I've become to familiar with the thought that I will never be good enough. Even when you do reach your best, I feel like there is always someone achieving something even better. I know these are all lies from the devil, but it's hard to ignore those thoughts. I'm in this slow process in working with God to truly believing that I am good enough. Because we all are! If you ever need help believing that I would be glad to help you with that.
Just something that has been on my mind!

Anyone feeling alone tonight?

Don't worry you're not alone.

Right there with yah.

 

What's Next?

Do you ever wonder what's next?
I think that is where most of us get so caught up.
We don't know what's next. For me I am in that position myself. You have this story you are healed and you are whole, you have lived through the hard times and you want to share your testimony you want to spread the love and so badly for people to realize how good God is and all He has done for you. Okay we want that so bad, but we just stop there we get stuck in this place. You're healed and whole.. so what's next? Now that you have the nourishment, how will your brokenness play into your story or more importantly how does your story play into the greater story of the church?
We've set these milestones and we've seen them pass, we so badly want to forget about that shame and brokenness. But really these stories are a huge part of who we are and how we were shaped to who we are now. We should place monuments in remembrance of where you have been and how you made it through. Without that season you wouldn't be in this season. It's easier to pretend like you have been whole and are okay, but really we need to remember our story and move on and use our story to help others get to where we are. It's not easy, life is so hard I don't think I have to tell you that, but it's a consistent thing. We have to take up our cross every day. Sometimes we think after some sort of adversity in our life, that that is it. After that life will be grand, no you've got it wrong. Hardships WILL come. One after another, you have to take up your cross everyday and give it to God. Sometimes I feel like I've hit this block in the road, I so badly want to reach this point in my life where I feel truly alive! I think I'm starting to get the hint that that is what God wants, use my story to help others. That is the conclusion that I have made. And I will spend the rest of my life doing this.

Here we stand our hearts are yours, not our will but yours be done.

live by that and you're set for life.

His peace is like a melody.

God's peace is like a melody.

Remember God is with you and FOR you.

You face NOTHING alone-nothing.

When you feel alone, know that you are focusing on the visible world and leaving God out of the picture.

The remedy is simple: fix your eyes not on what is seen but what is unseen.

Verbalize the your trust in God.

The living one who sees you always.

 

 

The point of your life is to point to Him.

Whatever you are doing God wants to be glorified.

Because this whole thing is His.