God is so amazing!!!!!!!!
Okay... so I essentially have 2 papers due for class by Monday (one's a blog... but it's pretty much another paper). I've been really stressed out this weekend about it... and a few other things I've been thinking about. Thankfully, I have both of them at least written... I have to edit tomorrow. But that was my goal for the day so I'm pretty happy that I got that done. But anyway, back to why God's amazing....
I love thunderstorms.
It's probably weird, but I really do. Back in the day at Asbury Hills, I remember going to multi-challenge camp. And one day there was a thunderstorm where we were camping in Georgia. There was cloud to ground lightning that didn't seem to be very far away. And we were standing on benches around a campfire in a field trying to hold a tarp over the fire so it wouldn't go out. I smile when I remember it because it was a little scary... I don't think you're quite supposed to stand in the middle of an open field during a thunderstorm like that. But also because I remember Robert, being taller than me, coming up and standing on the bench next to me. Being the all-protecting Bear Man, he said he'd save me because the lightning would hit him first. : )
But ever since that day I've loved thunderstorms. And today, as I'm all stressed out God blessed me with one tonight in Durham. So... I decided it was time for a study break (which I decide often as a matter of fact) and I went outside my apartment to our little porch/patio-type-thing.
I sat on our acquired (but we don't know where it came from) picnic table and just watched the rain pour and the sky flash. Then I started singing praise songs, quietly so God could hear them but not the neighbors. ; ) ...they probably wouldn't quite appreciate my singing voice as much.
It was amazing... God is amazing!!!!!! And I know I don't, and couldn't even if I tried, give Him all the praise He deserves. And I haven't been doing my best lately in that category. And I know God knows my thoughts and my struggles lately. But the amazing thing is, and what He showed me (again) tonight, is that He's always there for me.
...God's just amazing like that.
Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
(original version written by Methodist minister and hymnist Robert Robinson... the following is the modern version widely in use today)
Come Thou Fount of every blessing
Tune my heart to sing Thy grace;
Streams of mercy, never ceasing,
Call for songs of loudest praise
Teach me some melodious sonnet,
Sung by flaming tongues above.
Praise the mount! I'm fixed upon it,
Mount of God's unchanging love.
Here I raise my Ebenezer;
Hither by Thy help I'm come;
And I hope, by Thy good pleasure,
Safely to arrive at home.
Jesus sought me when a stranger,
Wandering from the fold of God;
He, to rescue me from danger,
Interposed His precious blood.
O to grace how great a debtor
Daily I'm constrained to be!
Let that grace now like a fetter,
Bind my wandering heart to Thee.
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
Prone to leave the God I love;
Here's my heart, O take and seal it,
Seal it for Thy courts above.
I love thunderstorms.
It's probably weird, but I really do. Back in the day at Asbury Hills, I remember going to multi-challenge camp. And one day there was a thunderstorm where we were camping in Georgia. There was cloud to ground lightning that didn't seem to be very far away. And we were standing on benches around a campfire in a field trying to hold a tarp over the fire so it wouldn't go out. I smile when I remember it because it was a little scary... I don't think you're quite supposed to stand in the middle of an open field during a thunderstorm like that. But also because I remember Robert, being taller than me, coming up and standing on the bench next to me. Being the all-protecting Bear Man, he said he'd save me because the lightning would hit him first. : )
But ever since that day I've loved thunderstorms. And today, as I'm all stressed out God blessed me with one tonight in Durham. So... I decided it was time for a study break (which I decide often as a matter of fact) and I went outside my apartment to our little porch/patio-type-thing.
I sat on our acquired (but we don't know where it came from) picnic table and just watched the rain pour and the sky flash. Then I started singing praise songs, quietly so God could hear them but not the neighbors. ; ) ...they probably wouldn't quite appreciate my singing voice as much.
It was amazing... God is amazing!!!!!! And I know I don't, and couldn't even if I tried, give Him all the praise He deserves. And I haven't been doing my best lately in that category. And I know God knows my thoughts and my struggles lately. But the amazing thing is, and what He showed me (again) tonight, is that He's always there for me.
...God's just amazing like that.
Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
(original version written by Methodist minister and hymnist Robert Robinson... the following is the modern version widely in use today)
Come Thou Fount of every blessing
Tune my heart to sing Thy grace;
Streams of mercy, never ceasing,
Call for songs of loudest praise
Teach me some melodious sonnet,
Sung by flaming tongues above.
Praise the mount! I'm fixed upon it,
Mount of God's unchanging love.
Here I raise my Ebenezer;
Hither by Thy help I'm come;
And I hope, by Thy good pleasure,
Safely to arrive at home.
Jesus sought me when a stranger,
Wandering from the fold of God;
He, to rescue me from danger,
Interposed His precious blood.
O to grace how great a debtor
Daily I'm constrained to be!
Let that grace now like a fetter,
Bind my wandering heart to Thee.
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
Prone to leave the God I love;
Here's my heart, O take and seal it,
Seal it for Thy courts above.