He loves us

I have been reading the book Crazy Love by Francis Chan.

It is a MUST read. My heart and mind are being blown away with how much the Lord loves me. How he cares about my silly first world problems. How He listens to the cries of my heart when people are dying of starvation and AIDS. How He loves me enough to allow me to wake up in the morning.

 

 

I have been trying to understand how much the Lord REALLY loves me. He loves me enough to send his one and only son to earth to die a terrible death for all of the sin in my life. Every sin that I have commited and have yet to commit. I am trying to understand the amazingness of the Gospel every day. It was seriously the best thing that has ever happened for this Earth.

Do you understand how much the Lord loves you? How do you deal with it?

 

All to Us

Tonight as I sit here in my apartment, avoiding cleaning and all things that require moving out of my comfy chair, I am listening to Chris Tomlin’s newest cd.

One of the songs has really caught my attention. It has me thinking. The words in this song are making my heart think.

Give it a listen…

Do we really believe that Jesus is all to us? Do we treat him like he is all that we need?

The last verse is what my heart longs for right now…

“When this passing world is over, we will see you face to face. And forever we will worship. Jesus, you are all to us.”

This is my prayer this evening, that Jesus would be everything to me. He would be my all. He would be the only thing that I am living for.

I pray that this is your hearts prayer as well.

Changes

Change.

That is a word that many people don’t like. They don’t like being out of their routine. They don’t like new. They don’t like change.

This year, I have learned to embrace change with open arms. Every day is different for me. Things are always changing.

While I was home this summer, I realized just how much I have changed this year. How drastically different my life is compared to when I went home in December.

I was embarrassed at things that wouldn’t have embarrassed me back in December. I was more conservative. I was more quiet. I listened more. I didn’t understand the conversations that took place because I felt like they were meaningless.

I wanted to talk about the stuff that God was doing in peoples lives. I wanted to hear about how they were following God or how they were struggling and help encourage them. I wanted to be modest. I wanted to hear peoples stories. I wanted to have heart to heart conversations with close family members. I want people to know that God is the only thing that matters in this world.

Nothing else matters.

nothing.

This morning I was having a conversation with one of my friends about how I long for heaven. I long to just be in the presence of my Creator. I long to see him face to face. But, some people don’t want that right now. They want to be here on Earth spreading the Good News of Jesus Christ. I understand.

I want to do that too but more than anything, I want to be WITH Jesus Christ in heaven.

 

Community

I love the community that you can build via twitter and blogging these days.

You chat with people who you have never met in person, but you feel like you have known them for a really long time.

Through this blog, I have “met” people who are truly amazing. People who I would have dreamed to be years older than me but they are actually younger than me and have so much wisdom and faith in the Lord.

One of those people is Lexi Mackinnon.

She is fantastic. She is 22 years old and is moving to Uganda, Africa in September to start her own ministry, Muzunga Momma Ministries.

This ministry is a part of Uganda that is known for being rough. They have very high poverty rates and there are a lot of orphans.

This is a video that Lexi made to help people know more about what is going to be happening with MMM.

I would ask that after watching the video, that you would read this post that Lexi wrote breaking down all of the needs that need to be met over this next year.

If you know how much I love Africa and children, please consider giving to MMM. It would truly bless my heart and these children. These children need to know about the love that Jesus Christ has to offer and what it is like to live in a loving home.

Thanks friends!