We all know Hebrew 11 as the "by faith" chapter in the Bible. By faith Abraham, by faith Moses, by faith Joseph, so by faith Kristen must be how it would go too right? Well after reading and re-reading this chapter it hit me, by faith...by faith....there is absolutely no other way that I could believe in the Creator and Redeemer person called God, but by faith. There is no evidence of him that I can grasp with my hands. I don't see him every day like I see my best friends. Verse 6 says: "And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him."
Okay so then it hit me again...this whole "by faith" concept is an amazing thing. Living by faith is believing that no matter what the circumstance God is still God. He never changes. He will never go back on his word. His promises will remain. His hand is constantly guiding me and working in my life, but only by faith can I truly believe that. And this reward that he talks about in verse 6 we may not receive today, tomorrow, or even before we died. Even some of the people in the Bible didn't get to see their reward for living by faith. Moses died before the Israelites could enter the Promise Land. Some still faced persecution and even death, but verse 40 tells us, what does that matter when we are serving the King of Kings just by having faith?!!!
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Friday, February 11, 2011
As the Seasons Change
Okay, so I am sitting on my bed and watching When in Rome with my besties-Anna and Courtney, and I have the sudden urge to start a blog. I have never done this before, so this shall be interesting. =]
Life has changed drastically for me over the past 5 months. I no longer live at home. I have begun the journey of slowly but surely becoming independent from my family. Let me tell you, through this process I have had mix feelings. At first I was so excited because it was a new adventure, meeting new people, not having my parents to answer to every day, making my own decisions, etc. But then there is the fact that I can't just walk downstairs and sit on the couch next to my mom and cry over the things my heart is feeling about life...and lets be honest...boys =] I truly think that while we are living our everyday busy lives that we begin to take for granted the little things. For instance, the fact that my mom would make enough coffee in the morning so that I could have a cup, or the fact that my dad would be there to ask me the tough questions that I couldn't ask myself, or even that whenever I needed to tell somebody something I had my brother right across the hall from me that I could just run over to and tell him whatever I needed to share at that moment. No, now that part of my life is 45 min and a phone call away. It is just a completely different feeling.
Now don't get me wrong, I love school. I have met some of the most important people that are in my life today, and I wouldn't trade any of that. But there are those days when I wish my mom could just do my laundry or clean my room, when I wish my family was all together sitting around at the dinner table talking and laughing. None of that is gone forever, I still go home and get to experience it, but not the same way as when I lived with them 24/7. The little things that for 18 years of my life I took for granted.
And I think this is true in our spiritual walks with God too. We get so caught up in the business of our lives that we forget about the small things God does for us everyday. For instance, the fact that He is ALWAYS there for us, every hour of every day, even those days when we forget to spend any time with him. Or the fact that everyday the sun comes up in the morning, it points back to the handiwork of our marvelous Creator who cared about us enough to create something like the sun that not only brings us sunlight everyday, but is there to provide heat so that we don't freeze on this planet we call Earth. God puts relationships in our lives that are there to support us and encourage us through the seasons when it would be so much easier to give up. Or here's a really practical fact: that we have food on our table or a roof over our heads when we walk by people everyday who don't have either one. These aspects of our everyday lives we overlook because we get caught up in everything that is about US.
So i guess what I am trying to say is that through the seasons changing in my life , one thing has never changed, and that is my relationship with God. Going to college, being on my own, not having my family here everyday encouraging me to find God, I have found Him! And it means so much to me because I found Him for myself, I can feel His love for myself. He no longer is the God of my parents, but He is my God, my Creator, my Savior, and my Best Friend. Even when life changed He didn't. His promises still remain.
-THe Enddd =]
Life has changed drastically for me over the past 5 months. I no longer live at home. I have begun the journey of slowly but surely becoming independent from my family. Let me tell you, through this process I have had mix feelings. At first I was so excited because it was a new adventure, meeting new people, not having my parents to answer to every day, making my own decisions, etc. But then there is the fact that I can't just walk downstairs and sit on the couch next to my mom and cry over the things my heart is feeling about life...and lets be honest...boys =] I truly think that while we are living our everyday busy lives that we begin to take for granted the little things. For instance, the fact that my mom would make enough coffee in the morning so that I could have a cup, or the fact that my dad would be there to ask me the tough questions that I couldn't ask myself, or even that whenever I needed to tell somebody something I had my brother right across the hall from me that I could just run over to and tell him whatever I needed to share at that moment. No, now that part of my life is 45 min and a phone call away. It is just a completely different feeling.
Now don't get me wrong, I love school. I have met some of the most important people that are in my life today, and I wouldn't trade any of that. But there are those days when I wish my mom could just do my laundry or clean my room, when I wish my family was all together sitting around at the dinner table talking and laughing. None of that is gone forever, I still go home and get to experience it, but not the same way as when I lived with them 24/7. The little things that for 18 years of my life I took for granted.
And I think this is true in our spiritual walks with God too. We get so caught up in the business of our lives that we forget about the small things God does for us everyday. For instance, the fact that He is ALWAYS there for us, every hour of every day, even those days when we forget to spend any time with him. Or the fact that everyday the sun comes up in the morning, it points back to the handiwork of our marvelous Creator who cared about us enough to create something like the sun that not only brings us sunlight everyday, but is there to provide heat so that we don't freeze on this planet we call Earth. God puts relationships in our lives that are there to support us and encourage us through the seasons when it would be so much easier to give up. Or here's a really practical fact: that we have food on our table or a roof over our heads when we walk by people everyday who don't have either one. These aspects of our everyday lives we overlook because we get caught up in everything that is about US.
So i guess what I am trying to say is that through the seasons changing in my life , one thing has never changed, and that is my relationship with God. Going to college, being on my own, not having my family here everyday encouraging me to find God, I have found Him! And it means so much to me because I found Him for myself, I can feel His love for myself. He no longer is the God of my parents, but He is my God, my Creator, my Savior, and my Best Friend. Even when life changed He didn't. His promises still remain.
-THe Enddd =]
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