7.07.2014
7.06.2014
here's to 25
friendship with God involves trusting Him wherever He leads. oftentimes, He leads to places that don't really make sense to my limited understanding. there are many prayers yet to be answered, and speedy justice yet to be granted. experiences like that can really offend my trust in how I thought a good God should lead. to the rest of the world, continued faith in such a God could be counted as foolishness.
as i turn 25, i'm convinced more than ever before that He leads so well. through the highest of highs, through the valley of the shadow of death, I will follow Him, and know that He never leaves. for a life filled with pain and suffering with Him by my side is infinitely better than an easy, comfortable life without Him.
for 25 years He's been the same. After 25 years there has been no better thing than to trust Jesus Christ. His leadership has never put me to shame. His faithfulness endures. He remains the only solution, the only answer to it all, and i wouldn't for a moment wish for any other way than His way. He intricately planned it all this way because He wanted me. He wanted to do this life together with me. "Together", He says, "let's survive this together."
Here's to 25 more years, 25 more, or 25 more, until the day i see His face.
~~~
And Jesus said, "whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him"
When many of his disciples heard it, they said, "This is a hard saying, who can listen to it?"
But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, said to them "Do you take offense at this?"
After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him
So Jesus said to the Twelve, "Do you want to go away as well?"
Simon Peter answered him, "Lord to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life."
John 6:56-68 (paraphrased)
as i turn 25, i'm convinced more than ever before that He leads so well. through the highest of highs, through the valley of the shadow of death, I will follow Him, and know that He never leaves. for a life filled with pain and suffering with Him by my side is infinitely better than an easy, comfortable life without Him.
for 25 years He's been the same. After 25 years there has been no better thing than to trust Jesus Christ. His leadership has never put me to shame. His faithfulness endures. He remains the only solution, the only answer to it all, and i wouldn't for a moment wish for any other way than His way. He intricately planned it all this way because He wanted me. He wanted to do this life together with me. "Together", He says, "let's survive this together."
Here's to 25 more years, 25 more, or 25 more, until the day i see His face.
~~~
And Jesus said, "whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him"
When many of his disciples heard it, they said, "This is a hard saying, who can listen to it?"
But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, said to them "Do you take offense at this?"
After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him
So Jesus said to the Twelve, "Do you want to go away as well?"
Simon Peter answered him, "Lord to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life."
John 6:56-68 (paraphrased)
1.23.2014
1.12.2014
tender heart
this year i'm reminded with a vision to be near the end of my days, to wake up early in the morning, sit before Him, gaze upon His beauty, and weep
12.23.2013
moments
life these days are filled with a lot of good moments, but nothing quite compares to those moments where i finally quiet my heart to bask in His presence. though i'll admit it isn't glorious every time i make an effort to do so, but the moments like tonight where everything seems to be winding down and not a whole lot is going on my mind, i can finally see Him, and i realize how much i miss Him. i'm finally reminded by how deep of an ocean there is to Him, and how much i have yet to drink in. i don't think i really can put into words how i feel during these moments. it's like a part of me wants to scream at the top of my lungs because it just feels like my head is sticking out of a car moving at 60 miles per hour. it's like this feeling where my heart is moving too fast for my mind to catch up. before i know it, my mind has caught up and i'm left wanting more.
Jesus, i want so much more of these moments. beyond emotion, beyond what my language can express, God. don't let my love grow cold as i'm waiting for you to come home.
Jesus, i want so much more of these moments. beyond emotion, beyond what my language can express, God. don't let my love grow cold as i'm waiting for you to come home.
10.09.2013
10.04.2013
Harassed by life, exhausted, we look about us for
somewhere to be quiet, to be genuine, a place of
refreshment. We yearn to restore our spirits in God,
to simply let go in him and gain new strength to go
on living. But we fail to look for him where he is waiting for us,
where he is to be found: in his Son, who is
his Word. Or else we seek for God because there are
a thousand things we want to ask him, and imagine
that we cannot go on living unless they are answered.
We inundate him with problems, with demands for
information, for clues, for an easier path, forgetting
that in his Word he has given us the solution to every
problem and all the details we are capable of grasping
in this life. We fail to listen where God speaks: where
God’s Word rang out in the world once for all, sufficient for all ages,
inexhaustible. Or else we think that
God’s word has been heard on earth for so long that by
now it is almost used up, that it is about time for some
new word, as if we had the right to demand one. We
fail to see that it is we ourselves who are used up and
alienated, whereas the word resounds with the same
vitality and freshness as ever; it is just as near to us as
it always was. “The word is near you, on your lips and
in your heart” (Rom 10:8)
-Hans Urs von Balthasar
somewhere to be quiet, to be genuine, a place of
refreshment. We yearn to restore our spirits in God,
to simply let go in him and gain new strength to go
on living. But we fail to look for him where he is waiting for us,
where he is to be found: in his Son, who is
his Word. Or else we seek for God because there are
a thousand things we want to ask him, and imagine
that we cannot go on living unless they are answered.
We inundate him with problems, with demands for
information, for clues, for an easier path, forgetting
that in his Word he has given us the solution to every
problem and all the details we are capable of grasping
in this life. We fail to listen where God speaks: where
God’s Word rang out in the world once for all, sufficient for all ages,
inexhaustible. Or else we think that
God’s word has been heard on earth for so long that by
now it is almost used up, that it is about time for some
new word, as if we had the right to demand one. We
fail to see that it is we ourselves who are used up and
alienated, whereas the word resounds with the same
vitality and freshness as ever; it is just as near to us as
it always was. “The word is near you, on your lips and
in your heart” (Rom 10:8)
-Hans Urs von Balthasar
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