Odedience Or Sacafice

Doing what God ask us shows our love for him.  John 14:15 says “if you love me, you will keep my commands.” What should motivate our submission to God’s way is our love for him. Is it possible to follow God concerning some areas of our lives and not in others?

Well imaging that your child uses profanity in school, but cleans his room, do you take joy in his  tidying his room and over look his misconduct at school? Absolutely not! I expect my child to follow my rules all the time and in all areas. Well the same goes for obeying God’s commands, he wants your full submission, your whole heart not just a piece of it. 

Search me oh God

How true is this for you? Are you looking inward? When was the last time you took out quite time to reflect on your actions or intentions?

I encourage you to spend some time in prayer ask God to reveal your heart. I guarantee if you ask he will show you. We as people spend too much time blaming external forces, we give the enemy way too much credit! When in reality so much of what we are going through are the result of our own doing.

"Search me oh God and know my heart. Try me and know my thoughts and see if there are any wicked or harmful ways in me and lead me in the way everlasting" -Psalms 139:23-24

David asked God to search for sin and point it out, from a medical standpoint it was exploratory surgery for sin! I challenge you to make this your prayer and see if we don't get better results. If you ask the Lord to search your heart and reveal any areas of shortcoming you will be continuing to walks on your path to "everlasting life".

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Diary of a Single Girl: What I learned About Being Single on Tax Day

Yesterday was tax day (well by the time I post this it probably was a few days ago). And well that got me to thinking, so I hit up good ol’ Google which solves a lot of the worlds problems and I typed in “difference in tax rates among married and single people.”

Well talk about salt on a wound, basically what I learned was single people pay more. And the government is set up this way intentionally to encourage marriage. which I want to say to the government “Get off my back, I am trying.”

Trusting God

“Just Trust Me.” Those are the words we hear in movies just before something bad is about to happen. And yet we are told to trust God. In a culture were we’re taught to take control of our lives, trusting God has become a religious platitude rather than a life changing attitude. We say that we trust God, but what dose that really look like.