Worship

I jsut wonder how prepared I will be when I get to heaven and see Jesus face to face. I want to just throw myself at His feet and worship Him. However, I have been convicted lately about my response to worship. Do I worship Him with everything I have? Am I worshiping Him enough so I will be ready to face Him one day? I think not....I must worship daily in everything I do. I want to be ready.

Andy Stanley

Salvation is free...it will cost you nothing.

Following Christ will cost you something.

Refusing to follow Christ, will cost you...everything!

Jesus

My devotion today was on Jesus. God in flesh. How often I just that phrase without really thinking it through. Jesus...God in flesh. Not Jesus...God as God...but flesh. He took on the same temptations, the same desires, the same everything, just to dwell among us. It would be like me sending Naomi to a bad city or neighborhood just so she can dwell among them and love them, even though they persecute and abuse her daily. God did that for us. Jesus did that for us. How often I forget the sacrifice He made, the struggles he faced...just for me.

"Gongusmon"

Philippians 2:14-16 says

14 Do everything without grumbling or arguing, 15 so that you may become blameless and pure, “children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.”[a] Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky 16 as you hold firmly to the word of life. And then I will be able to boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor in vain.

The word used is gongusmon which means whining and complaining. My devotion said it is kind of funny how this word is pronounced and sounds like "gone goose mon" What a weird word. But yet so profound...God says do EVERYTHING. Not the things we like, not when we feel joyful and are in good moods, but EVERYTHING without grumbling or arguing. Sometimes, no a lot of times, this is extremely hard! WE think we deserve to be treated better. We think we deserve more respect. We are on situations daily where we think we have been wrong including work, home, with friends, church, and everywhere else we are. But we don't. If we truly got what we deserve, it would be much worse than what we go through daily. So today..my focus...do EVERYTHING without using grumbling for fear of being classified as a 'gongusmonite'

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Selfishness

Selfishness: thinking we deserve more for our lives, from our husbands, from our employers. God portrays the absolute selflessness. We abuse Him, spit on Him, curse Him, daily....yet we don't deserve His forgiveness, His grace. And yet, we whine we our spouse or our employers treat us bad. We deserve to be treated bad by everyone, including God. My prayer - a little less selfishness, and a little more selflessness.

We don't deserve anything good our spouse or friends, or job can give us!

Friend with Benefits...

AS work gets harder and harder, I find i go home to get rejuvenated with my family, friends and God (no particular order). Today as I was listening to a new sermon series on marriage by Mark Driscoll, he stated something profound. People often say in a marriage that they have fallen out of love. But here is the truth. Love begins and ends with God. You can't decided when you are and when you are not in love. Love is not of yourself, it is of and from God. The key is to let God love your spouse through you...your goal, my goal is to have an every lasting friendship with Cory. A friend with benefits...

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Abraham

A Bible study we are doing on Sunday nights is about the modern day Abraham. It is really amazing how you take a story you have known since you were a child and apply it to modern day times. Can you imagine the thoughts of he and Sarah at such an old age trying to conceive a child? After all they had been promised to be the father of so many nations. IN today's world, it would be fertility treatments, timing, and a whole lots of other things just to try and conceive. But as with life, it is all about God's timing. When I try to start planning my life my own, it just doesn't seem to be the best paths to take. Everything I know God has promised is His timing. Not mine. And as I pray and trust in Him daily, I have to let go. After all, I have the front row seat to see His amazing plans unfold in my life and the lives of those around me. (taken from wise words from a good friend).

So, my thought for the today....sit back, hang tight, and know He is in control!

I have had a lot of ladies ask me if I would start blogging again. Just like my own personal diary into what Father is showing me day by day. So, it now begins. Since my last entry, a lot has happened. I have grown so much closer to God and cory. I still have a long ways to go...but I have falling in love with my first love all over again...so the journey continues!

See you tomorrow!