In This Dying World I Reach For SomeOne More

“it’s all about finding an honest lover. a pure, selfless lover. a lover who looks at your heart and admires what it has been through, understands why it is the way it is and loves it anyway.”

“How it must break His heart when we walk around so desperate for the kind of love He waits to give us each and every day.”

Do you ever why it seems like everyone around you seems to have everything all together? Like in a short amount of time everything has changed? So and so just graduated with a masters in this, they just got engaged, married, had a child, got their dream job, bought a house, a car, etc. The list goes on.

When the Bible says “do not lean on your own understanding,” the Bible is being serious. Your heart is deceitful, your emotions fluctuate, your understanding does not see the overall, big picture.

Things that won’t get you to Heaven:

I can’t stop thinking about Elijah sitting underneath the juniper tree & asking God to die.  God sent an angel who says, “This journey is too much for you.” & that he must eat. Elijah does, then he rests.  He wakes up still feeling hopeless, & the angel repeats himself.  

“Child of God, you cost Christ too much for him to forget you.”

“Don’t become a prisoner to your past. It was just a lesson, not a life sentence.”

“God has a way of stripping everything that we think we need, and He leaves just Himself to us. It is never an easy thing to be in that situation; one day praising God for His goodness and the next crying out to Him to make Himself known in the storm. When we have rooted ourselves to a safe place, God tends to rip us out of the ground and plant us somewhere new. We may hate it, revile Him for it, and even reject Him for a time. But when we look back, we will see that we needed to be uprooted, to be changed from that place that was slowly killing us. God is the master gardener, He knows all His plants by name, He delicately removes the bad weeds and waters the good seeds. He does what needs to be done, so that one day we can look back and see the majesty that He was doing. You are being made into a beautiful thing, something that God loves to watch grow. So the next time you are taken out of your comfort zone, know that Christ is slowly making you something great, because He is doing it; and He is the greatest thing.”

“God has never failed. I don’t know if you’ve ever realized that before. But He will never fail with you.”

“To believe in Christ is to see that He is a priceless treasure of infinite value.”

In the moment of temptation: