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Ok, so how freakin' great is Sara Groves? Yeah? Well, I met her! She's amazing, all I thought she would be. Humble, beautiful, real, sweet, takes time to talk to people and tell them thank you for listening to her music and appreciating her writing. Uh! I can't even begin to describe how much I adore that woman's music. She's so.... REAL. And I like that.
I started a new book: "The Journals of Jim Elliot." It's a bit different reading someone's journal entries instead of just a book-book, but I like it. It's cool see his take on the different scripture he reads each day and so forth. And I know I'll get to the parts where he struggles with his calling, whether or not to go overseas, what to do about his love for Elisabeth Elliot, yada, yada. I can't wait to get to those parts.
Read Psalm 100 this morning, and remembered this: "Know that the Lord is God. It is he who made us, and we are his..." (v.3) So if we really are HIS, then I really don't own my life... right? Jesus specifically mentions something to this affect in Mark (chapter 8, I believe.. and in the other gospels.) I remember walking away from my reading the other day with the words "deny yourself" ringing in my ears. I had never let it hit me like it did that day. DENY.. it's a pretty strong word. And it doesn't really matter if its logical or fair or any of those things that I think it should be.. specifically things like whether or not I get to have this boy in my life or get to go to Memphis this summer or any of those things.. I deny myself and follow Him. His desires and wills and all those fun things get to play out when I really do deny myself and my flesh that can only see into THIS very moment, and not into the big picture. And that's Ok... God knows I can only see so far, and I can only breathe this breath and live this day, so that's why he tells me to put away trying to rely on myself.
Wow, you'd think I have this stuff figured out. But I have to start over every day.
Be well...
I started a new book: "The Journals of Jim Elliot." It's a bit different reading someone's journal entries instead of just a book-book, but I like it. It's cool see his take on the different scripture he reads each day and so forth. And I know I'll get to the parts where he struggles with his calling, whether or not to go overseas, what to do about his love for Elisabeth Elliot, yada, yada. I can't wait to get to those parts.
Read Psalm 100 this morning, and remembered this: "Know that the Lord is God. It is he who made us, and we are his..." (v.3) So if we really are HIS, then I really don't own my life... right? Jesus specifically mentions something to this affect in Mark (chapter 8, I believe.. and in the other gospels.) I remember walking away from my reading the other day with the words "deny yourself" ringing in my ears. I had never let it hit me like it did that day. DENY.. it's a pretty strong word. And it doesn't really matter if its logical or fair or any of those things that I think it should be.. specifically things like whether or not I get to have this boy in my life or get to go to Memphis this summer or any of those things.. I deny myself and follow Him. His desires and wills and all those fun things get to play out when I really do deny myself and my flesh that can only see into THIS very moment, and not into the big picture. And that's Ok... God knows I can only see so far, and I can only breathe this breath and live this day, so that's why he tells me to put away trying to rely on myself.
Wow, you'd think I have this stuff figured out. But I have to start over every day.
Be well...