faith when it counts.

Faith is a freakin huge part of my life. It defines everything I do, from how I treat people to the words I speak. Granted I slip up...a lot. But it's chill. If I didn't screw up something would be terribly wrong. It will always be apart of me...nothing can take it away. So this raises a question. Is it possible to really fall away from the faith? If a Christian totally turns their back on the faith that used to define them...were they a Christian to start with or were they decieved? Maybe....just maybe we analyze it too much. Maybe faith is just supposed to be something simple, not something to be analyzed so much like we do. I mean, Jesus did say to have "child-like faith". Guess you could say we live in an overly-analytical society...

holiness and forgiveness.

so many times i think that we forget who God really is.  earlier i read sara acker's blog about the King.  she had a Bible verse from Habbukuk that said something about God riding through the sea on horses.  Sara said how she could see God riding in through the seas on these huge, powerful white horses and how beautiful it is that we serve an awesome God, the King of the universe, "everything seen and unseen".  I replied by saying " and he calls us friend..."  How beautiful!  this God who created everything we have the ability to see and everything so far out we may never get a chance to even know that it's out there...He cares about us.  I mean, it's so huge!  Take a look at your hand...see those ridges that make up your fingerprints?  You know why those are there?  To keep things from slipping out of your hands!!  You know what else?  Everybody's is different!  Everybody on this entire planet has a different genetic code.  No 2 snowflakes are alike.  You'll never see the same sunset twice.

And you know...He freakin knew, long before He created humans, that we would fall and break His heart a thousand times.  He knew He'd have to die a painful death, even if it was just for one person.  He knew that a bunch of people would choose Hell over His love.  BUT, He forgave us anyway.  I wrote this song one sunday morning during church about this..

Even Though

By: Laura Tompkins

Oh God, I can’t even understand
Why You’d die for me
You saw me before I was thought of,
Oh, You knew all about me
Before I was conceived

Chorus: Even though You knew
I’d walk out on You
Even though You knew
I’d break Your heart a thousand times,
You forgave me anyway.
And even though You knew
I’d slam the door in your face,
And walk out on You more
Times than once,
You forgave me anyway.
Oh, You forgive me anyway.

God, show us Your mercy
Show us Your love.
Teach us to love one another,
The way You loved
Each of us.

Chorus

Break: God help me to forgive
The ones who hurt me most
Show me how to love,
And forgive them anyway…

reminder to myself...

to anyone that might actually read this...this is basically a reminder so i'll hopefully grab my soap box again sometime tomorrow and spill it about the reverence of God.  i've got a lot to say about it.  got started tonight and wish i could continue but it's late and i need to get to bed before i get in t-r-o-u-b-l-e.  yeah that's right ...trouble...gotta love it!  oh, eventually i'll talk about tempers too...cause i've got a bad one!!