with my heart

you know? when you’ve known something for a long time, you’ve even grasped it, but you grasp it again?

I love it when that happens.

God’s love is steadfast. He is faithful. Forever.

I’ve known that. It’s true. I could say it until I was blue in the face. But today, I’ve grasped it again.

Don’t you love it when you get a glimpse of glory, of God’s face, and you see the depths of God’s character with your heart, instead of just your mind?

Individual Strippings

“Each separate experience of individual stripping we may learn to accept as a fragment of the suffering Christ bore when He took it all. “Surely he hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows.” This grief, this sorrow, this total loss that empties my hands and breaks my heart, I may, if I will, accept, and by accepting it, I find in my hands something to offer. And so I give it back to Him, who in mysterious exchange gives Himself to me.” -Elisabeth Elliot, These Strange Ashes

Turned Toward Christ

“Sound doctrine is important, and something every Christian should strive after. However, the importance of sound doctrine pales when compared to the importance of a heart turned towards Christ by the power of the Gospel. Any man can have the former, while only a man who has been born again of the Spirit, and is clothed in Christ’s righteousness, can have the latter.-stolen from Isaac’s status, which is stolen from Matt Hammer

thoughts on change

journal entry, May 26th, 2007

Thoughts on Change:

1. If you’re going to change tomorrow, that tomorrow will never come.

2. God can use trials in two ways: to change us, or to make us realize we need to change.

3. There’s aways room for a greater change that you’ve already had.

4. Every change is the most important change of your life.

5. God changes things. Embrace it; He knows best.

6. The basis for my changes should be from the redemption of my heart….changed from darkness to light, everyday being molded and changed to be more like Christ.

7. We can’t change the world without God changing our world first.

forever

forever, and ever, into eternity and beyond to no end, I am Christ’s

see that apostrophe? That shows possession.  I am His.

– — –

the thought stuns me

I am His now. And I will remain His.  forever

Happy Birthday, Matt!

Happy 16th, Matthew. I’m not sure what to think of having a 16 year old brother; I’ve never had one before: it’s odd. Nonetheless, Happy day! Love you!

p.s. enjoy the scary picture. :)

Like a Joke

“Doing wrong is like a joke to a fool,
but wisdom is pleasure to a man of understanding.”

Proverbs 10:23

Demands My Soul, My Life, My All

When I survey the wondrous cross
On which the Prince of glory died,
My richest gain I count but loss,
And pour contempt on all my pride.

Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast,
Save in the death of Christ my God!
All the vain things that charm me most,
I sacrifice them to His blood.

See from His head, His hands, His feet,
Sorrow and love flow mingled down!
Did e’er such love and sorrow meet,
Or thorns compose so rich a crown?

Were the whole realm of nature mine,
That were a present far too small;
Love so amazing, so divine,
Demands my soul, my life, my all.

[When I Survey the Wondrous Cross, Isaac Watts]

Under the Weather

Just a bit under the weather this week. :)

Happy Birthday, Kristin

Happy Birthday, Kristin!

It’s been a joy working, talking, and laughing with you over the past few years. It’s my pleasure to know you! Have a blessed birthday, dear!