Monday, February 11, 2008

ROUND TWO!!!!


I hope this isn't putting myself too " out there" type-a- deal. Hopefully someone feels they can relate to this and it helps. We are all figuring out who we are, I don't think it stops at anytime or at any particular age!!! :)

It seems to me that everyone has moments in their lives that cause heart ache, pain, tears, joy and happiness. It’s inevitable, you feel all of these emotions and more throughout your short journey on earth. The real test is how you handle them. When you have cried all the tears you can cry for the moment do you just wait to cry again? When your happy, whether it be for yourself or for someone else, is it temporary? Or is it long lasting? I know we can’t be joyous all the time and that being depressed or upset for to long would be draining..so when is enough enough?  And when it is enough, what do you do with all of these left over emotions? 



Finally I have the answer to this question. I was shocked but really I shouldn’t have been, to find that the answer to this question is the exact same answer to every other “ in depth” or “ thought provoking” question I have ever had. It’s God. You give it all to God. It’s so simple and so predictable, yet not. 


At some point we just have to realize that we are not in control of our lives. We may think we are but we are far from it. By giving God our emotions, our fears, our thoughts, everything we are submitting to his amazing plans for us. For we could try and try but never get very far on our own. 


Sometimes when you have something you take it for granted. I am 100% guilty of taking advantage of my relationship with God. No ifs and or buts about it. 


God so desperately wants us befriend him. Just to spend time with him. Why we seclude him from the most important parts of our lives I will never know, because I do the exact same thing. I not only want God to be in my life, or to take part in my life but I want him to BE my life, my everything. And it’s hard. Remembering to say your verses and read your devotions, or pray every night can be difficult. But it’s not about the routine it’s about the heart. Is my heart in the right place? I am who I say I am?..... A child of God? Does it show in my everyday life? We need a lifestyle change not a crash diet. 


Set up good habits, make new friends, utilize your God given talents, be more positive. Honestly, it can’t hurt to try it out, what do you have to lose? You can only gain. And by trying you put a smile on God’s face. 


6 comments:

~*Rebecca*~ said...

Hey Precious...

That is a really good post...I have to agree with the getting to know who you are will take a while if not your whole Life...
The only way to know who we are is to seek the one who made us to reveal it to us and the more we get to know Him the more we get to know who we are...
He is such a big God and there are so many aspects to Him that it ends up being a long journey to discovery yet we become more and more like *WHO WE ARE* on the way there...because if we are getting to know He just bocomes us...

Amanda one thing I have learned is that if I really want to know Him and if I really want to know who I am then setting time aside daily with My Jesus is the only way I will know...

Bless you for posting this It has really spoken to my heart and just stired up a passion to keep seeking Him everyday...

Love ya hun..
XOXO

Tamatha said...

And what a good round two it is! I am going to really enjoy reading your posts!:o)

Jenna Dowling said...

Hats off to you! This post really made me think, about how we all can get to the most inner layers of our spirit. It's tough because it requires a loss of our own control. I am reminded of what Paul says in Romans 12:1
"And so, dear brothers & sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice - the kind He will accept."
-- This is the easiest and more difficult thing, in my opinion.

--But - in doing so, is when e find out who we really all, in Christ.

Love you girlie!

megz33 said...

Hey Darling!

Your right on about this one... I am so at the place your at. Wow it is a really good blog for making everyone of us think about where we are right now. I'm not going to lie or sugar coat it! I struggle sometimes with keep on track with God. But I was reading in our course material if a Church doesn't pray and stick together... How can we go out into the world and spread the Good News, if we are to consumed by our own lives and not worried about anyone else?

We can't we can't do nothing with out the power of God, and I believe by getting the power of God we must all spend time with God and pray as a church and or community and be able to pick anyone up who may be struggling to help them press on. Thank you for this blog this makes me want to go even father and deeper into what God has and is going to do in me and our church!

I love watching you grow in God you have come so far since I have met you! At convention 3 years ago lol! awww that was a great time! LOVE YAH!

L.O.V.E.
megz

Shari said...

You are brilliant... you must have great parents to have inherited such wisdom from.

I especially love the "crash diet" illustration.

Love ya

Cathy said...

You are a beautiful and amazing young woman. Writing is obviously one of your talents!