Gooooood Morning!
Stayed up till 5am this morning...tehe. Took an hour long 'power nap', woke up at 6, showered, ate a delicioussss breakfast, drove Lauren to Jsarg, and am now passing the time until my french class, here at the library.
Life is beautiful. Nature is beautiful. God is beautiful - and you can see him everywhere. Even in this dull and rainy morning, he is here, and that is amazing. And I love this. This weather is perfect. There has been a fresh mist that covered the ground, the dogwoods and cherry blossoms are blooming (as well as the hyacinths in our back yard garden!), and everything is looking alive and well. I love it! I can't wait until everything blossoms and all the colors will be out with the sun.
Knowing Christ
The sermon this Sunday was really good. I liked it a lot. It was on Philippians 3:4-14 - knowing Christ. It's something we always need to remember and dwell on. We need to remember his sufferings that he went through for us, and his strengths that he possesses.
"Dear Friends, now we are children of God and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him AS HE IS."
I believe as I have mentioned before in an earlier post, that we need to learn how to die to ourselves in order to live. In the same way, our past needs to be forgotten, in the sense that we can't dwell on our short comings and let that be a hindrance from our future relationship with God, as well as other people. We must recognize our past, as an evil way of living (if that be the case), and accept it, but not be debilitated by it. We can't obsess or nurture our faults, but instead we need to replace it - and place it on the cross. Give it to God, because he is all powerful and he will take our sins and cleanse them.
We don't have to live like we're in a box... we're FREE in Christ, we have freedom in HIM. We are forgiven because of our faith and God's love for us. His never ending love.
Philippians 3:9-12 - - -> righteousness/resurrection/perfection of Christ, is ours.
Philippians 3:10 - - -> Life in Christ means we FOLLOW him. Live by the power of faith!
...just thought I'd share
Stayed up till 5am this morning...tehe. Took an hour long 'power nap', woke up at 6, showered, ate a delicioussss breakfast, drove Lauren to Jsarg, and am now passing the time until my french class, here at the library.
Life is beautiful. Nature is beautiful. God is beautiful - and you can see him everywhere. Even in this dull and rainy morning, he is here, and that is amazing. And I love this. This weather is perfect. There has been a fresh mist that covered the ground, the dogwoods and cherry blossoms are blooming (as well as the hyacinths in our back yard garden!), and everything is looking alive and well. I love it! I can't wait until everything blossoms and all the colors will be out with the sun.
Knowing Christ
The sermon this Sunday was really good. I liked it a lot. It was on Philippians 3:4-14 - knowing Christ. It's something we always need to remember and dwell on. We need to remember his sufferings that he went through for us, and his strengths that he possesses.
"Dear Friends, now we are children of God and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him AS HE IS."
I believe as I have mentioned before in an earlier post, that we need to learn how to die to ourselves in order to live. In the same way, our past needs to be forgotten, in the sense that we can't dwell on our short comings and let that be a hindrance from our future relationship with God, as well as other people. We must recognize our past, as an evil way of living (if that be the case), and accept it, but not be debilitated by it. We can't obsess or nurture our faults, but instead we need to replace it - and place it on the cross. Give it to God, because he is all powerful and he will take our sins and cleanse them.
We don't have to live like we're in a box... we're FREE in Christ, we have freedom in HIM. We are forgiven because of our faith and God's love for us. His never ending love.
Philippians 3:9-12 - - -> righteousness/resurrection/perfection of Christ, is ours.
Philippians 3:10 - - -> Life in Christ means we FOLLOW him. Live by the power of faith!
...just thought I'd share
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