weekend recap

my weekend summed up in this picture:

reading the Bible with Hunter

observing the beautiful stained glass window at our lake house

walking along the lake shore

cooking dinner for Hunter

having Hunter cook breakfast for me

getting some homework and studying done

drinking hot tea together

overall a wonderful relaxing weekend

oh and if you haven't heard this go check it out!

I Wanna Dance With Somebody - Ben Rector

hope y'all had a great weekend!

peace. and. blessings.

walking the walk that we talk

Why is it so hard to walk the walk, yet so easy to talk the talk?

This question could be the question of a lifetime.  I don't know the answer: maybe because we live in a world of sin.  This world is so so so full of sin and the devil consumes us.  

Why am I blogging about this?: recently I have been asking myself this question so much.  Why is it so easy for me to understand what my devotion is asking me, but not easy to carry out what it's asking me?  Why do we not live our lives to glorify Him? HE DIED ON THE CROSS FOR US!  For some reason we cannot devote 5 minute to Him.  Yet we waste more than 5 minutes on facebook, twitter, watching television, blogging, texting, talking on the phone, the list could go on. This has to be a change that I make in my life, and I urge you to make it in yours! Is stalking someone on facebook you barely know worth anything over sitting down and diving into the word?  Is waking up on Sunday for church really THAT hard.  Who cares if you stayed up till 3 a.m. the night before?  Yes, I am aware that I fail at every single one of these things.  I am a huge failure, but God does not look at us as failures.  He looks at our strengths and is right there holding our hands to help us become stronger.  

So my devotion today was on clothing ourselves in Christ.  Every morning when you put your clothes on, you are getting dressed to be a servant of Christ.  To glorify Him: show His love, talk to Him, serve Him, listen to Him.  It was also talking about how our clock is ticking.  We cannot go back to yesterday and we are not guaranteed tomorrow.  Live your life to the fullest today.  That is so hard to do!  Especially on the days when you have so much studying, so many commitments that it just seems like you're at the bottom of a pool of deep water and have no chance of making it to the top.

Sunday after church I went to lunch with Ben & Cassidy and some of their church friends.  I was talking to Cassidy about going to Bulgaria, the trip that they take every Summer.  I have this great passion to go, but the next two Summers are booked with school for me.  So, I shall wait until it is time.  

Anyway... Cassidy was telling me about how in Bulgaria the people will literally stay in church all day just to worship.  To love on God, to hear God's love, see God's love, worship our Heavenly Father.  Do you know anyone in America that does this, because I certainly don't.  These people don't just do this once or twice a year on a weekend.  They do this on a daily basis.  Why don't we do this?  We are such a broken world society.  It breaks my heart.  It breaks my heart that we don't strive for this.  It breaks my heart to know that we are failing God.  Whether or not he sees it as failure that is what we are doing to Him.  Does He deserve that? NO!

"You were taught with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness." -Ephesians 4:22-24

Okay, I will now get off my soap box and try my very hardest to go out and serve God to my fullest.

are you wearing your armor of God today?

peace. and. blessings.

scripture + memory = glorifying God

So... I have decided that it is time to take the next step in my relationship with Christ.

It's time to take on the daunting task of scripture memorization.

Daunting for me, because I am not good at memorizing.

In school vocab has never been my thing.

Spelling I can do that all day long.

So anyway, starting today/this week I will memorize a verse or two or three of scripture each week.

This week I'm starting off with two verses, simply because they go together.

So, why not memorize them together right?

It's important to memorize scripture because as Christians we are supposed to know the word of God.

We all know the usuals:  John 3:16, 1Corinthians 13:13, etc.

I probably know 10 verses max memorized.

What a failure. I am failing God. 

I have memorized a verse for every two years of my life. 

If you average out the time and verses I know by heart. 

It's time to glorify Him by learning and soaking up His word.

So I have my verse in a little flower picture holder.

I wrote it on some colored cardstock paper in Sharpie and here it is:

This is in my bathroom on the side wall next to my mirror.

So, I can read it while I'm getting ready in the mornings and getting ready for bed at night.

This weeks verses are:

"For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. 

For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal."

- 2 Corinthians 4:17-18

have a great week!

peace. and. blessings.