Life = Good.
I finished Matthew! Hooray!
...most people probably wouldn't think this quite the accomplishment. But I started reading Matthew (the first book in the New Testament) several years ago, but I just didn't keep up with it. I picked it back up a week or two ago, reading some each night, and sometimes in the morning, and I finished it this morning! I'm just excited about it because I'm that much closer to reading the entire New Testament! It doesn't seem quite so daunting any more. I've read the entirity of a few other books, but I'm trying to do a straight shot all the way through. Yes. Very exciting.
I suddenly got really tired.
I feel different now. I feel more like my geniune self. I feel more satisfied, but still so hungry for God. I want to keep running towards him, but I feel like I'm getting tired. But then again, my spirit is renewed! I rest in the Lord, I call on His name, and I am comforted and rested. I'm happy again. I'm singing more now, and just feel content. It's wonderful!
I shared the Lord and how we were made (three parts: body/soul/spirit) with Dale last night when I got home. I gave him my New Testament to take with him to Boston. It was very exciting. He was very quite while I spoke to him. I showed him the recover version online (www.recoveryversion.org). Ted and I prayed for him last night... it was good. :)
I can't really describe what's happening to me besides how much the Lord is showing me. I am I child of God, an ambassador of Christ, and He is slowly revealing this to me. I feel called, and it's so unique and different for anything of the world. I want to weep because of the gratitude and mercy and just the uniqueness of this calling. What a privlage it is to be called by God! The second stanza in hymn 473 says:
When such as we the King can choose,
To share with Him His throne,
’Tis passing strange that we refuse
To be our Lord’s alone.
O never speak of sacrifice!
A privilege untold
Is to be His at any price,
In Calv’ry’s hosts enrolled.
I was really touched by "o never speak of sacrifice, a privilege untold." I felt like the Lord was speaking directly to me in those words. I've been thinking a lot about sacrifice and censecration and just giving everything to the Lord. Everything that is mine is the Lord's anyway... and it should be a privlege, not a sacrifice, to give things up for Him. And honestly, it is a privilage and a joy to give everything to Him! :D
I need to make a consecration list. We went over consecration on Saturday at college meeting. It was really sweet. A brother wrote out everything that he consecrated to the Lord, and a year or two later he looked back on it and everything on his list, the Lord was so faithful to! :)
I also need to write out a prayer list.
hmmmmyeeesssss.... The Lord is real. And He is so sweet.