Settled spirit

"You are calling me, I can hear it clearly
To stand for purity and what's pleasing to your heart
You are showing me, I can see it clearly
A sense of destiny, a change from everything around"


I'm still learning what a humbling, amazing thing it is to receive & walk in the "higher calling" that God has placed upon me. Not the world's (fellow students, friends, professors, family, etc) standards, but His standards. haha, I was so blessed this week to meet with a friend for a quick coffee chat, because she's beginning to have more relationship questions/issues with a new guy.
You know why she wanted to meet with me? (the one who has never dated and can count all of the guys I've liked on one hand?)
Because of Jesus, because of the sweetness & depth of my relationship with Christ. :-)
((humbled)) Praise God!
Something I've realized that hurts my heart - when I have friends say, "Well yeah, I really want God to be a big part of this relationship."
..........
stop right there - Jesus needs to be the ENTIRE relationship. Why have just a piece when He's already offered ALL of Himself?!
It confuses me.

I'm also learning that discipline is not always pleasant, but painful...yet afterward, I know it will reap a harvest that's richer and sweeter than anything I could have ever imagined.

¹¹No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.

¹²Therefore, strengthen your feeble arms and weak knees. ¹³"Make level paths for your feet," so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather healed. (Hebrews 12)

I'm so blessed. So thankful for how covered I am in this glorious place of grace that God has me.

Burdened.

geez....go back to school, meet a friend for coffee, and I'm reminded of the evidence that we're smack in the middle of a decaying planet, surrounded by people that don't realize we're in the end times and their lives are short. =/
I'm not discouraged, just convicted/reminded/admonished to speak LIFE while I still have the chance...

A call to persevere

¹⁷But, dear friends, remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ foretold. ¹⁸They said to you, "In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires." ¹⁹These are the men who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the Spirit.

²⁰But you, dear friends, build yourselves up in your most holy faith and pray in the Holy Spirit. ²¹Keep yourselves in God's love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life.

²²Be merciful to those who doubt; ²³snatch others from the fire and save them; to others show mercy, mixed with fear—hating even the clothing stained by corrupted flesh. ~Jude

God isn't surprised, and He doesn't want us to be.

¹⁹And I'll say to myself, "You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry." '

²⁰"But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?' (Luke 12)

I'm unbelievably blessed and favored, not in a dreary state at all (mentally nor geographically speaking). I just want to readjust my priorities and let go of every possible thing that could be keeping me from letting someone else see the Light through me.

Blessed are the hungry
You said it, I believe it
Hunger is the escort
To the deeper things of You

ok.

this helped.

time for studying.

Hello, October

Goodness.
Back to school tomorrow!
excited, ready, nervous, equipped-->Mom gave me a fresh pack of 300 notecards! =D
(scary part - I'll probably end up using ALL of them.)

Looking forward to this new month/chapter/season/era...something good is on the way!

I'm not feeling terribly profound...just unfathomably blessed, treasured, redeemed, loved, called chosen...=)
His steadfast love endures forever!

*read Psalm 136*

That's what I want - His steadfast love interrupting & completing every single one of my thoughts...