God's Love 101

Monday, July 28, 2008

I feel like over the last few weeks God has been teaching me so much about Him. Sometimes it feels like my head is going to spin off attempting to coherently understand it all. Which is something to be excited about, and I am more than excited, and thankful too.

What if God was like a highschool course? You learn about Him for a month or two, have an exam, and your done. So if you didn't understand something or missed some days, once that semester is over, your screwed. That would be a bummer. But no, God shows us new things about Him all the time!!! i love it. i feel like recently God has really been proving to me that He is ALL i could ever need in this lifetime. In the midst of this lesson from God I heard an AWESOME sermon at midtown on Philippians 4.

[11].I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. [12.]I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. [13.]I can do everything through him who gives me strength.

I love it. God has really been showing me that no matter who is in my life or what is causing me to worry that it shouldn't matter. JESUS IS ENOUGH! i can't really sum it up any more than that! I talked to a really good friend of mine about this certain instance that has been testing my trust with God. Not that it has been making me question God's love, but that this situation has caused me to stretch and grow and actually rely even more on Him to get through it. but anyways, she pointed me to Matthew 6 where it talks about worrying, and how the birds don't store up their food and God provides for them! I wish i could be like a bird sometimes, just going from day to day not worrying at all. Of course their brain size is like a walnut...BUT how much more valuable to God are we than birds!! God takes such good care of us, I know personally I am super blessed, but I still worry and desire things. My same friend has a really awesome perspective, she was saying how this summer she has really been experiencing God's love fully, even though she doesn't fully understand it, she can feel it. She says that things don't consume her anymore, like she doesn't worry about hardly anything and that just knowing Gods love, has been so amazing in her life. I thought this was straight up, awesome!!! I however, still continue to let situations & people take over and I continue to worry about things.

I've really been comforted yet challenged in Proverbs 3:5:

Trust in the LORD with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding; 6 in all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will make your paths straight.

I just have to CONSTANTLY remind myself that i am just a puzzle piece and God is making one huge puzzle and He knows what the heck He is doing and I just need to trust Him, with ALL of my heart!