Love

    I am at a point in my life where I feel like things are making sense. Life is making sense. My desires and perspectives have changed to a deeper understanding. I have to admit that I like it when things make sense! Although I clearly will never know everything, clarity can be a blessing in a time of confusion.
    When you are putting all your trust in God, worry and stress simply melt away. Life is easier! Pursuing God in life has been such a breath of fresh air! This world is so crazy and uncertain and when resting in someone who knows/wills everything.. you tend to look at everything differently.
    One thing God has been teaching me lately is how I should be treating others. I have been letting my life get in the way of showing love to others and that is such a waste of time. I could never love others the way God does but the fact that He loves them so much makes me want to love them too. Instead of looking at people and their sin, I have been focusing about how they are a child of God and unconditionally loved by Him. If God can love them than so can I because He is in me!
    People really are good! It is hard when you're walking to class and hear people talking about what they did last night, and it makes you sad, but then you see people who help others once they fall off their longboard. I have always felt like everyone has good in them and I now know that to be true because God made us all in His image (Genesis 1:27.) God is good and God is love.
"Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friend," John 15:13. This passage is so good because it emphasizes two things,
       1. The greatest love occurred when Jesus died for us all,
       2. We are a friend of the one true God!
    How great it is to know that God loves for us is the best there is. I have lately been thinking about when someone purposely sins against God. I can't imagine how that must feel to have someone you made slap you in the face....I guess thats like your own child slapping you in the face. I don't know about anyone else, but that would really irritate me because people do everything for their kids and yet they can't even get respect from them. Well this happens to God a lot! Over and over again actually, but He doesn't get mad; not even a tiny bit. That's cause He is perfect and we aren't. This is how I know that humans are not capable of unconditional love; the kind that God freely gives us. The love that should warm our hearts toward our maker and cause us to repent of sin.
   Sometimes I think the only difference in a Christian and nonbeliever is that Christians will admit their sins. We also strive to be like our maker but we still sin; theres no escaping that. It is inevitable, but thanks to Jesus we don't have to experience hell because of it. Instead we get to spend eternity with the person who loves them more than anyone else ever could.

Faith can be hard

   A year ago, I stepped into the unknown and trusted God in an important decision in my life. It was scary. I wasn't sure what would happen, but all I knew was that I trusted Gods plan 100%. Although my flesh was telling me it was impossible to trust God and that it would be unbearable to trust Him, I did it. While I had the faith, I immediately made my decision.
   I remember being so sad and not understanding why I did what I did. I wanted to undo it and I questioned if God really knew what He was doing. I thought that He had to have made a mistake because I was so unhappy.
   After wondering this for about a year, I can finally say that I was highly mistaken!
   God has brought me to a place in my life where I could not be anymore grateful for what He did a year earlier! I see His love through this and am so thankful. His ways are right and perfect. All we have to do is trust Him. Although extremely hard, even a year later it can be worth it a hundred times over.
Dont listen to the enemy. Trusting God is always the right thing to do. No matter what happens, He will be glorified and praised!