God has been using a lot of my emotions that I had in my past post to really shape my heart. The past few days have been awesome and instead of going to God and dumping all of my anxieties and all of my fears and whining and complaining that He never answers me, I just spent time with Him these past few days. It's been amazing.
So many times I just go to God, thank Him for what He's done, and load tons of prayer requests on His plate. None of that is wrong, but I should be becoming more like Christ and how can I do that if I am not spending time really enjoying Him and spending time with Him?
Last night I was planning to go to the cardio room only to realize that the guys basketball team had taken it over... My first thought was to be annoyed but I decided to make the best of it. I went for a walk outside. As I started to walk thoughts of "God why can't you just answer me... Why can't you just tell me what to do" surfaced, and I decided to push them away. I thought of nothing, I just walked, enjoyed our beautiful campus covered in snow, and felt God there with me... I have not felt that for awhile... Just feeling God like He was hand in hand next to me Even though it was chilly, it was incredible. I felt like I was 5, and my love for God was overflowing... I wrote I <3 God in the snow, and just had some fun quiet time, and I ENJOYED my Saviour. I did not ask for anything, I just answered God's plea to spend time with Him. I had been ignoring that plea for awhile because it had gotten smothered by my crazy life here. As I walked another blessing occured to me, on my walk I passed a few couples, and although I was a tad jealous God put a new thought in my mind. I now fully understand what it says in 1 Corinthians about the benefits of being single. Although I am so excited for the marriage part of my life if that's what God wants, it made me realize how couple's really can't do that. The couple's enjoying the same night sky that I was were more wrapped up in eachother... it is really nice for now to not have any ties... to be able to let God love me and no one else. I am still processing through this past week, but I know God used that hard night for good, because my devotions the last couple of days have been amazing. I have been learning so much about Faith and how we we need to stop questioning God and feeling like He needs to hand us a book on every event that will happen in our lives. We need to have true Faith... not a Faith with a foundation of doubt, but complete Trust in our Saviour after we have handed everything in us over.
I really admire those of you who care enough to actually read my long posts.... I love to write and writing has always been a way for me to go into my own little world and discover what it is that God is doing, and express my feelings. I encourage all of you to get all bundled up and go spend time with God and think about your Faith...
Are you just going through the motions or do you truly give every aspect of your life over to God and Trust Him with it?
We all are constantly growing, and I hope this somehow pushes you guys to think. Enjoy the last few weeks before Christmas! Love you all
So many times I just go to God, thank Him for what He's done, and load tons of prayer requests on His plate. None of that is wrong, but I should be becoming more like Christ and how can I do that if I am not spending time really enjoying Him and spending time with Him?
Last night I was planning to go to the cardio room only to realize that the guys basketball team had taken it over... My first thought was to be annoyed but I decided to make the best of it. I went for a walk outside. As I started to walk thoughts of "God why can't you just answer me... Why can't you just tell me what to do" surfaced, and I decided to push them away. I thought of nothing, I just walked, enjoyed our beautiful campus covered in snow, and felt God there with me... I have not felt that for awhile... Just feeling God like He was hand in hand next to me Even though it was chilly, it was incredible. I felt like I was 5, and my love for God was overflowing... I wrote I <3 God in the snow, and just had some fun quiet time, and I ENJOYED my Saviour. I did not ask for anything, I just answered God's plea to spend time with Him. I had been ignoring that plea for awhile because it had gotten smothered by my crazy life here. As I walked another blessing occured to me, on my walk I passed a few couples, and although I was a tad jealous God put a new thought in my mind. I now fully understand what it says in 1 Corinthians about the benefits of being single. Although I am so excited for the marriage part of my life if that's what God wants, it made me realize how couple's really can't do that. The couple's enjoying the same night sky that I was were more wrapped up in eachother... it is really nice for now to not have any ties... to be able to let God love me and no one else. I am still processing through this past week, but I know God used that hard night for good, because my devotions the last couple of days have been amazing. I have been learning so much about Faith and how we we need to stop questioning God and feeling like He needs to hand us a book on every event that will happen in our lives. We need to have true Faith... not a Faith with a foundation of doubt, but complete Trust in our Saviour after we have handed everything in us over.
I really admire those of you who care enough to actually read my long posts.... I love to write and writing has always been a way for me to go into my own little world and discover what it is that God is doing, and express my feelings. I encourage all of you to get all bundled up and go spend time with God and think about your Faith...
Are you just going through the motions or do you truly give every aspect of your life over to God and Trust Him with it?
We all are constantly growing, and I hope this somehow pushes you guys to think. Enjoy the last few weeks before Christmas! Love you all
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