So This blog is going to be particularly random. I have 3 different things to talk about and I dont feel like doing a seperate blog for each. So I will start out with the first of 3 essential F words...
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Fascination
Last week, (before the cloud watching day) I had been praying for God to just fascinate me. To show me how truly fascinating He is. The Song of Solomon study I am going through talks about the 7 longings of our hearts and how if we don't look to God to satisfy those longings then we will find another way to satisfy them, usually resulting in sin. One of the longings is fascination. So, I was praying about it and WOW.... Did He ever fascinate me?! First the clouds. Then I was at home one night and Whitney (one of the roomies) and I were talking about how amazing the Lord is. We just started talking about heaven and how the Bible says that there are colors that we will see that we have never even seen before. (I can't remember for the life of me where it is in scripture) I’m just gonna let you marinate on that for a minute.
Colors.
We’ve never seen.
We are incapable of imagining what they look like.
Can you even wrap your brain around that? I mean we don’t understand. We could think all day… “well, what if its turqu… oh no that already exists. What if it’s like a purple… nope that’s already been done.” Go outside. Or even just look around you. DO YOU REALIZE…. There are millions… BILLIONS of different colors in the room (or in nature) around you. I mean… Just look at MY HAIR and you have like 5 million different colors right there! Ha! No but really, how amazing and awesome and fantastic is that. My favorite color is turquoise. And hot pink. I’ll have SOOOOOO many more to chose from later!! Wow. He is so worthy of all of our praise. Because we give Him junk. We give Him ashes, He gives us beauty. He doesn’t NEED us. Good grief He made the stones cry out. But He wants us and He has (even after giving us His precious Son) so many more gifts to give us!

Fear
John Fox brought to my attention the Fear of the Lord this week. It literally changed my life.
He said something that, at first, struck me as weird and discomforted me. But… then I thought about it and… well, I’ll just tell you.
He said he’d been running lately so his physique had changed. He was admiring himself in the mirror and all of a sudden he got this pain in his back. Then he realized he was being vain. He totally believes that God gave him that pain to be like “no sir… vanity is not ok.” So John was saying how God is the great I AM, He is a jealous God and He has the power to strike us dead if He wills. I was just like ehhh… but He is so gracious. Which YES, praise Him, He is gracious, BUT let’s not forget about all the other qualities he has. Jealousy, Wrath, Mercy, Love. But regardless…. HE HAS the power.
Deuteronomy 9:19
I feared the anger and wrath of the LORD, for he was angry enough with you to destroy you. But again the LORD listened to me
And it’s like an automatic, split-second change that occurred in me. Now, when I do things that I normally do that are sinful, things I don’t really think about like my temper or impatience, this week it’s been like, before I did it, I thought about God. And I didn’t do it, out of fear of the Lord. It’s an amazing thing too.
And yes I fear Him, but at the same time, I know He totally and completely loves me in the purest form. It’s only in Him that those two things can compliment eachother. Love, and fear of the One who you love. And I praise Him for that fear because it’s killing sinful habits I have.

Fun
Next, just wanted to share the day I had. I spent the day with my niece and nephew. Blake and Topanga. They got here and we went to Sweet Eugene’s and got donuts for breakfast and we played checkers there (which my patience was tested here, trying to explain a 6 and 7 year old how to play a game like this is hard). And then we went back to my casa. We were going to go swimming but because of the black clouds and the storm a’brewin, we stayed inside and they painted pictures for Grandma Faye and played Scrabble (WHY all these hard to explain games? Ha) And THEN after a bit of POURING… it’s stopped and got beautiful outside. So we went to Adamson’s Lagoon and spent the day there. Staci and Hayden and Hannah came too and we had a blast. I love my kiddos. Oh Mom, sorry, I forgot to have them call you!
Anyways, later I had a lovely 3 hour (not intended) nap. Then went BACK up to Sweet Eugene’s and hung out with my lovely roomie Kyndall, Ashley, Mark, and Caleb. We had an awesome time. It’s so good, being someone who has been on both sides of the spectrum, to be around people who just love their creator! What a blessing it is to have their company and friendship!
Please pray for my Grandma, she hasn’t been feeling well lately and her medicine isn’t helping her. And also pray for the roommate situation to pan out for me, I wanna stay with Kyndall soooooo bad. Love y’all and thanks for reading! Post a Comment