Hi friends! Oh how I’m glad you have stumbled across this page. I pray that as you read this, the Lord will move mightily in you. It is because of Him that I write and not anything of myself.
So lately I’ve been feeling that I have been missing something in my walk with the Lord. I’m not quite sure if that’s how you feel, but if I’m being honest my heart is a dry desert waiting for living springs to flood in. I know what you’re thinking…that sounds so strange and I think it does too! :) I heard a teaching tonight about waiting on the Lord, but what struck me the most was the passion the speaker had for the Lord. It was so evident of how in love she was in with the one who redeemed her soul. Then it hit me and hit me hard. I lack the joy that I once had when I received my Savior. It’s not that it’s completely disappeared, but it’s become a state of complacency. I watched this speaker shed tears as she quoted scripture just because she was that in love with Jesus! It was such a delight to my heart, but at the same time too it bought so much conviction and realization. I was convicted because I realized I do not profoundly live my life with the joy of the Lord. I may some days when things are great, but I don’t do it on a daily basis. What was hard to swallow about that was that I have no excuse for it either. Why should I not be so deeply be in love with the one who saved me from myself? Why should I not be so deeply in love with the one who knows me better than I know myself? Why should I not be so in love with the one who offers me an inheritance far more than I could imagine?? The answer is simply this: there is none because I should absolutely be madly and crazy in love with the Sovereign Almighty (not because I’m forced to, but because I desire to)!! He takes great delight in me His precious daughter who has given that inheritance away (PS-but God was so great in restoring it!), and who has been flat on her face seeking for everything else but Him. Well friends my heart is finally saying enough I do not want to forsake the love of my Savior that I desire to consume every part of my life! “Awake my soul and sing!” My heart is ready for an awakening. I cannot simply do this with the switch of a wand; the answer lies in letting Him (Jesus) change me. So precious Father I make this my hearts cry. Dear friend I pray that you would join me!! I would like to leave you with this note. May the Lord our God who is greater and higher above all radically move us. May you feel the warm embrace of your Abba Father who has loved every part of you, yes even the things we shamefully hide…He loves you regardless! Now isn’t that something to rejoice in!! Oh Lord Jesus fill us with your joy, and help me (us) to fall deeply in love again with our great redeemer! Rest in the Lord sweet friends!
Psalm 63:1-5…..O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirst for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water. I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory. Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you. I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands. My soul will be satisfied as with the richest of foods; with singing lips my mouth will praise you! (NIV)
