First of all, let me say I have totally missed blogging. I think at least twice a week, I want to sit down and just blog, but either the computer is preoccupied or its a moment where I know I will be interrupted 100 times by my 5 lovely children. So, with that being said, while we are here in Hickory, Sam has a computer at the church, which frees up our laptop for me. Also, I am writing this blog at 6:30am which is pretty unusual for me. God woke me up "early" this morning so instead of trying to roll over and sleep, I got up, made coffee and am sharing my heart today.
Last night I had the opportunity to slip out of the 3rd service (Hickory Harvest has 3 services on Sundays all identical) because I was working on a headache and wanted to take something for it before it was worse. I ended up in the lobby area talking to some great people. The lady asked me once I told her the journey we have been on if I was keeping a journal. In some ways I feel like I have because I have blogged some, but then I was thinking I better sit down at the beginning of this year and just start writing about how God has changed me through all of this.
I am not the same person I was before. I have grown up in church my whole life, literally. I was saved at the age of 14, but I have grown MORE in the Lord in the last 2 years than I have since that point. Does that shock you? I hope it does, but I dare to say there are others like me. There came a point in my life where I got tired of going through the motions and putting on a smiling face and pretending to be the "perfect Christian" that everyone else wanted me to be. I felt like even though my sufficiency was in Christ, I was adding other things to that. This is SO not what the Christian life is about....doing things to gain/earn HIS favor? The moment I stopped trying to earn God's favor by doing a list of things and understood the fact that HE alone was who my sufficiency was in, it was a life altering moment for me.
I know, some of you say, "my sufficiency is in Christ," then you say, "but you still have to...." If your mind starts saying or thinking but....then its not in Christ alone! This may be a hard pill to swallow, especially if you have been raised this way your whole life. It's an exhausting way to live my friend. There is so much freedom in trusting Christ alone. This is not a one time deal at salvation. We have to be reminded daily of the gospel and what it means to us. I want to share some more things (hopefully this week) about how I have been changed.
But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. II Corinthians 12:9 (ESV)
Last night I had the opportunity to slip out of the 3rd service (Hickory Harvest has 3 services on Sundays all identical) because I was working on a headache and wanted to take something for it before it was worse. I ended up in the lobby area talking to some great people. The lady asked me once I told her the journey we have been on if I was keeping a journal. In some ways I feel like I have because I have blogged some, but then I was thinking I better sit down at the beginning of this year and just start writing about how God has changed me through all of this.
I am not the same person I was before. I have grown up in church my whole life, literally. I was saved at the age of 14, but I have grown MORE in the Lord in the last 2 years than I have since that point. Does that shock you? I hope it does, but I dare to say there are others like me. There came a point in my life where I got tired of going through the motions and putting on a smiling face and pretending to be the "perfect Christian" that everyone else wanted me to be. I felt like even though my sufficiency was in Christ, I was adding other things to that. This is SO not what the Christian life is about....doing things to gain/earn HIS favor? The moment I stopped trying to earn God's favor by doing a list of things and understood the fact that HE alone was who my sufficiency was in, it was a life altering moment for me.
I know, some of you say, "my sufficiency is in Christ," then you say, "but you still have to...." If your mind starts saying or thinking but....then its not in Christ alone! This may be a hard pill to swallow, especially if you have been raised this way your whole life. It's an exhausting way to live my friend. There is so much freedom in trusting Christ alone. This is not a one time deal at salvation. We have to be reminded daily of the gospel and what it means to us. I want to share some more things (hopefully this week) about how I have been changed.
But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. II Corinthians 12:9 (ESV)
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