School and work have just been too much lately- not too much for me to handle, but too much intensity, too much busyness, too much of the world pressing in on me and blocking out faith. And then I start studdying 1 Corinthians, and I'm amazed at the clarity of the scriptures, the obviousness of the message being potrayed. And I wake up to see the rain falling on the window and feel the coziness of the house before it's quite light out side, and I'm reminded that God is a God of character and diversity, and I can say with Him that the creation "is very good!." And I go to Mars Hill and hear this hymn:
O Lord my God, when I in awesome wonder
consider all the works Thy hands have made
I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder
Thy pow'r thru-out the universe displayed
when thru the woods and forest glades I wander
and hear the birds sing sweetly in the trees
when I look down from lofty mountain grandeur
and hear the brook and feel the gentle breeze
and when I think that God, His Son not sparing
sent Him to die, I scarce can take it in
that on the cross, my burden gladly bearing
He bled and died to take away my sin
when Christ shall come with shout of acclamation
and take me home, what joy shall fill my heart
then I shall bow in humble adoration
and there proclaim, my God, how great Thou art
then sings my soul, my Savior God, to Thee
how great Thou art, how great Thou art
then sings my soul, my Savior God, to Thee
how great Thou art, how great Thou art
I think it's so important to really engage in our faith, not just to live intelectually believing it. Even the demons believe and tremble, right? This hymn helps me so much to engage my emotions in the things I'm trying to live out day by day. I think I need to start hanging hymns on my desk at work to remind me through the day of who I really am and what's really important.
The end. :-)
Friday, October 02, 2009
what joy shall fill my heart
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Ah, so true. It is just so easy sometimes to go along believing but not really doing much about it. Sometimes it's hard to know just WHAT to do, really. Or at least in a current situation on my end...which is hard when you really wish you could and feel like you ought to do something...
Yeah, I know what you mean. In my experience the more I try to fix things myself, the more messy they get... just leaving it to God works really well. But I don't know what your situation is. I hope everything's okay! :-)
what a great idea about the hymns MNM! and yeah you're right - 1 Corinthians is amazing. I read it at the shelter and I just ate it up word by word. Romans, 1 Cor., and 2 Cor. they flow so wonderfully together and are such a good review of...what do I believe again? :)
Well lets just say that as if my life wasn't weird and complicated enough, one more thing has suddenly come up.
What in the world do you do if a close friend suddenly tells you she is secretly gay?
yeah. as stated above, my life is really weird. *shakes head*
I really feel like I'm just reading these things for the first time, Kacy- that's so cool that you've been so submersed in scripture. There's such a big difference between READING and just, you know, reading...
Oh boy Sarah, that is SUCH a tough one! :-( How difficult. I'll pray that God give you the grace to know how to deal with this.
Beth and I were just talking about this yesterday, about how we're not sure how to handle the gay people in our classes at college. Because you don't want to shut them out or treat them any worse than other sinners, but you also don't want to seem like you're just going along with it... boy, that's hard. :-(
:]
Thanks Em <3 I guess for now that's really all that can be done-- that and pray for my friend that one day she'll come to Christ.
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