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Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Safe in his arms- God's compassion for us

This blog post was inspired by a Phil Wickham song called Safe.  The premise behind it is that we as Christians will be safe in his arms.  One of the verses is one of the promises he made to be with you always.  That verse has  stuck with me in the past week going through a hard time in my life.  He will be with me through whatever I'm going through.  He will never leave me or forsake me despite my failings or frustration.  I have been reading Jeremiah in the Bible for the past month or so.  It has been real good.  The past couple chapters I have been have been the best for me and have shown why God is who he is.  He has compassion on the people despite their sin and apostasy.  The people of Judah and Isarel rejected God and his commands.  The worshiped foreign idols instead of the one true God in heaven and earth.  They burned incense to worship.  They disobeyed all God has commanded them to do.  God was sad because of their sin and rebellion but he had a bigger plan.  God tells Israel they will be rebuilt in verse four of Chapter 31 of Jeremiah.  God tells the people in chapter 29 verse 10 he will send them into captivity in Babylon for 70 years and after that restore them back after that time.  Jeremiah verse 11 said, "For I know that plans I have for you,"declares the Lord,"plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and future."   God promised the people he will be with them always and he has compassion on them despite their sins against him.  In Chapter 32, verses 30 and 31 God expresses his frustration with the people and how they turned their back on him all these years.  He says in verses 39-41 of how he will restore the people.  "I will give them singleness of heart and action, so that they will always fear me for their own good and good of their own children after them. 40 I will make a everlasting covenant with them: I will never stop doing good to them, and I will inspire them to fear me, so that they will never turn away from them.  41 I will rejoice in doing  them good and assuredly plant them in this land with all my heart and soul." He also reminds the people and Jeremiah he will restore the people after their 70 year exile. This long quotation from the one true God in heaven and earth shows me that he is faithful despite what we have done or are going through in our life at the time.  He is in control of what we are going through.  He knows what we are doing, when we will do it, before we do it, and even knows what we are thinking every minute of the day.

Friday, February 4, 2011

Funny Story Friday

So, the funniest story ever happened to me in September.  I was going to visit Andrew Boone and some other friends from Friendswood that weekend in Austin, Texas.  My weekend went real well I got to hang out with Micheal Boone and Ryan Bresler on Friday night at their house.  Fast foward to Saturday night I got to hang out with my best friend Andrew Boone for the rest of the night and Sunday.  On Sunday, afternoon after church we played ultimate frisbee.  I was real good though I almost passed out because I didn't drink anything in the morning.  So, my best friend and I Andrew Boone went to his girlfriend's pool at her apartment.  As I jumped into the pool, I forgot that I put my phone in my pocket before I dropped in.  It was so funny after it occurred after the fact.  So, that's the story of how I put my phone in my pocket before I jumped in the pool and in turn messed it up for life.  Though I was able to get all my contacts out of my phone.  I got a new Droid facinate and I've had it since then.  Now, that's the story of how I dropped my phone in messed it up in someone's pool.  It was so crazy funny!

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

desiring Christ daily and hoping for heaven

Today I will be blogging about desiring Christ daily through trials and suffering.  I also will discuss hoping for our future home in heaven or eternity with our Savior King Jesus.  When we face trials or suffering in our life God weans us through this time and reminds us that he is the only thing in this life that matters.  He reminds us that everything we do must be found in him and him alone.  We must desire him in all that we do.  He wants us to die to our self and give up control of everything to him.  In James 1:12 he says that if we persevere through times of trial then we will receive the crown of glory in heaven.  Romans 8:18 says that "I consider our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us."  Our bodies will be made new when we go to  eternity meet our Savior Jesus Christ.  That is the hope we strive for when we go through these trials of life.  This is discussed in the last chapter of the book "How can a good God let bad things happen?"  God has to be that treasure that we seek every minute of the hour of the day in our lives.  The treasure from the parable of the field or sower that we do everything we can to find it.  He is the only thing or person in our life that can help us make it through whatever we are going through in our life.  He is in control.  He loves us abundantly and pursues us every day.  He desires to be with us.  He is the treasure of heaven we seek, when all else fails in life because if we seek him the treasure of heaven then we will be with him forever in his amazing treasure that he will bless all those that believe in him with eternity in Jesus Christ.  It is this hope of heaven and of desiring Christ through the trials of my life that I need to have.  It is this mindset I need to bring to whatever situation in my life because this earthly won't or doesn't compare to the crown we will receive in heaven.  We will be able to see our creator face-to-face and walk by sight not faith which in my opinion will be wierd.  Anyways, this book has really hold onto Jesus during this time in my life and cling to him in all that I do.

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