We ask this question to the kids in a survey at work. The answer that never fails to bring a smile to my face?

FLY

How many of you agree?

As much as the thought of just walking out my door and taking flight is intriguing to me... I honestly would say i would rather have X-ray vision of sorts... I want an X-ray of a person's true thoughts...

I want to know if people really mean what they say and say what they mean...then again do I? Hmmm

Maybe not...ha!

Ok fine...I want to FLY!

Fly to New York... There you go!

Love God and the rest will follow (except maybe the flying part)

So I was driving back from a friends house tonight...tying up loose ends...

I had this road ahead of me that was pitch black. I have been on that road before but I was always on the phone or singing to some song. Tonight though it was just me and this lonely road.

I am not a fan of silence, its when my thoughts are the loudest! Like clockwork, they began...what will I do next? Is this a move I was supposed to make? Will it be a mistake? So I began to ask my God if I was losing a battle maybe I was giving up and then this song came on by mercy me!


MOVE

I'm not about to give up
Because I heard you say
There's gonna be brighter days
There's gonna be brighter days
I won't stop, I'll keep my head up
No, I'm not here to stay
There's gonna be brighter days
There's gonna be brighter days

I just might bend but I won't break
As long as I can see your face

[Chorus:]
When life won't play along
And right keeps going wrong
And I can't seem to find my way
I know where I am found
So I won't let it drag me down
Oh, I'll keep dancing anyway

I'm gonna move (move)
I'm gonna move (move)
I'm gonna move

I've got to hold it steady
Keep my head in the game
Everything is about to change
Everything is about to change

This hurt is getting heavy
But I'm not about to cave
Everything's about to change
There's gonna be brighter days

I just might bend but won't break
As long as I can see your face

[Chorus]

No matter what may come
Gotta move to a different drum
No matter what life brings
Gotta move gotta move to a different beat [x2]

I just might bend but won't break
As long as I can see your face

[Chorus x2]

No matter what may come
Gotta move to a different drum
No matter what life brings
Gotta move gotta move to a different beat

-mercy me

Annnnnnd my questions died! God has a plan and I will move to His beat! In this case it means a physical move too and if this means I get to go places with God that I have never gone before then so be it.

Love God and the rest WILL follow!!


p.s.
God, next time would you direct the wind more northish though? Like NYC perhaps? Hehe

Let praises ring...

So my attempts to read the entire Bible in a year have failed miserably several times but this time around I am have been appealing to the history nerd in me. I decided to read the Bible using a chronological plan. This meant reading it more like a history book but I know my God and all glory and honor is still his no matter how I read the story He has laid out for this world.

that being said...so far so good. I am currently working my way through 1 kings... I never realized how many psalms were written in between and how different the Bible would look if put together in a historical manner.

I was shown a verse in psalm 71 this morning. Verse 14 says "but as for me I will always have hope; I will praise you more and more" initially I nodded in agreement and moved on but the. He Spirit brought me back to it. The psalmist says he will praise God in hope... Not after the deliverance, not after a sign, not after a voices peaks to him from Heaven! He will praise God in hopes that God will come through.

What a concept!

As I meditated on this verse the Lord began to reveal to me how much I still hold him to his actions. Payment in praise form will only come after my Lord has done what he promised or what I want from him. How sad is that? After everything he has already done for me even just in the salvation he has given me...even just in that I should be singing his praises every waking moment yet I hold out because I want more? There is no more...salvation is basically all that matters. This world will fall away and only thing that remains is TRUE LOVE in the form of GOD!!!

So I thought...solid lesson..now on to my day...not quite!


After a while I got a text reminding me of how similar this verse was to the reminder in Hebrews that faith in confidence in what we hope for... As I read this text the word confidence stuck out to me...soooo then came another epiphany!

Confidence in the humans is virtually nonexistent. I know I certainly do not get a paycheck until after I work my allotted hours for the month. Dictionary.com defines confidence as full trust! Full...trust...entirely...completely!

Sooooo if I don't have confidence in my fellow humans, who can I put my full trust in?

Ahhhh well the folks who have been to Sunday school know the answer... JESUS!

And when we put full trust in God there will be no wiggle room for fear or doubt to creep in...no wiggle room!

So there you have it!

Love God and the rest will follow!