Do great things.

I am going on a trip to India for 29 days with one of my very best friends. We are working in an orphanage... and we leave in 9 hours. Many people are praying for me and for God to move, and many other things (namely for my cold to subside) But a short conversation I had to night merited notation.

I dance, as you can probably tell, and tonight was my last dance for a month. A beloved friend walked me to my car and the conversation was light and happy as it normally is. But as he left me he said this, "Do great things in India."

My response was the programed response I have been giving to requests such as 'be careful', 'don't get sick', 'have fun' or 'come back safe!' my answer was, "I'll try." But as soon as that left my lips I knew that that statement was horribly wrong. Try to do great things. God doesn't do great things through people who are trying to do great things, he does great things through people who are willing to follow Him-- completely.

And yes, this dear friend said just that.

After my errant answer I said I would pray for GOD to do great things. Hence correcting the a fore mentioned "I'll try" But his answer was something like this, "All you have to do is obey." And with a grin he added, as any wonderful writer/musician/DANCER would say, "You just have to follow."

So, to quote the ever wise Yoda -- "There is no try. There is only do." but I say "There is no try there is only obedience."

I am terriable. He is able.

I love it when I get to dance with wonderful partners!

But what do I do? I am not a very good dancer and he is so good -- what do I do? there is no way I will ever be able to keep up with him. I'll mess up every cool thing he tries to do with me. He is wonderful -- I am not.

When I should be having a wonderful dance, instead I am thinking about how terrible I am. How I cannot do what he wants me to do. Then I am no longer enjoying the dance I am fretting about how I am not good enough. And I will with out a doubt mess up more than I would normally.

But if he is so good, why did he ask me to dance? Perhaps he is capable to leading, even leading me. Why would he want to dance with me? Maybe he knows that he is good enough to give me a good dance. Even if I am terrible, he is able. He knows what I can do, he knows what I do not know how to do... yet.

If I will trust him, he can do amazing things with me -- I just have to stop looking at my short comings. And I will get better the longer I dance with him. Dancing with him makes me a better dancer.

If I stare at my long list of inabilities it will never shorten, as much as I long to be a good dancer I will never become one if I do not dance with a lead that can challenge me, show me new things, and help me learn to overcome my fears and lack of ability.

Same with Christ -- He is the perfect lead. But we are not perfect follows. Even still He wants us to follow Him. Why? because He loves up and wants us to know Him and to learn how to follow Him. How to dance with Him. If we will surrender to His lead he will teach us how to follow. And the only way we learn, the only way we become better is not by striving to become the best -- not by fretting over each miss step or trying to perfect ourselves -- it by dancing with Him. Through the presence of God we are transformed into his image, not by our own practice.

But we must dance to become a dancer. You can practice alone all you want, but you will not be a dancer until your are DANCING.

Joy of dance.

A friend of mine asked today what is the difference between striving for righteousness and desiring righteousness and walking like Christ. In this statement "striving" is trying really really really hard to be righteous... And knowing me, my mind goes instantly to dancing.

So... Here is the picture.

While I am dancing there are things that I do wrong, things that I learned wrong, bad habits, poor posture and so on. Ironically the more I learn about dancing, the more I dance and as I get better... there are more things that I do wrong. The better I get the more I can see that I am doing wrong. When I first started dancing I would never have noticed that I shift my weight slightly backwards past my feet on a swingout. I never noticed that before.

Now the second part is I have a teacher who is also who I love to dance with the most, he is my most loved lead and he is telling me what I am doing wrong. He is making me a better dancer, showing me the little things and big things that I am not doing right.

Now with this introduction I have come to my point what is the difference between Trying really really hard, or abiding in Christ? In dance, when am I trying really really hard to do it right and when am I just trusting my lead?

Now when dancing with a lead that I trust and that challenges me, and especially when I'm dancing with my teacher, I have noted that if I begin to think about what I need to do, if I try really hard to do something right, I do not follow well. I mess up more. Why? Because I have taken my attention away from the one I am with. I am not focusing on HIM I am thinking about myself. Given, I am trying very hard to do what he has told me to do, but I can't DANCE while I am trying to make myself dance properly. If I just surrender my mind, body and heart to him and let him lead me we can be so beautiful. Will we be perfect? No. But will we enjoy the dance? Yes.

Now, do I leave my short coming unattended? By no means. 1st Cor 9:27 applies here. "But I discipline my body and keep it under control lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified." I do indeed discipline my body and the most literal sense I practice, train, do everything I can to form the muscles and the muscle memory to be able to become a better dancer. I work very hard to fix my short comings and to get stronger. Why? So I can do everything right -- I would love to be a perfect dancer -- but no. I work so hard because I LOVE to dance. That is it, I love it and I want to be better at it. So am I 'striving for striving's sake? nope. I am disciplining my body and mind to dance and dance well because I love the dance and the one I am dancing with. My focus is not getting the moves right, or even doing the posture and frame right (which are very important) My focus is following him, being with being with him, my focus is HIM -- not myself.

My friend asked me after I gave a slightly shorter spill about dance, "What do you do when you mess up?"
My answer was, "We keep dancing. He is able to dance with me no matter how bad I am, he is that good." and after further contemplation -- He will catch me when I fall, help me back on track when I've missed a step. He isn't concerned with how good or bad I am he just wants to dance with me. yes he wants me to get better, but never at the sacrifice of the Joy of dance.

Which is better?

Which is better? To serve God or to know him? I would say that to Know God is eternal life. (John 17:3) and to serve him is only done (only done out of a right heart) if you KNOW him and LOVE him and your service is because you know and love him. Not the other way around, you do not love him because you serve Him. You serve him because you love Him.

This is not what I sat down to write... but it is what came out. And I like it.

Laws of Physics, Grammar and Grace.

I was considering God and his greatness, and myself in my depravity. How immensely I did not deserve God's grace of Jesus in my life. Just knowing him, having a relationship with him is enough... he is everything. He is Holy, Lovely, Perfect in every way and thing. He loves, oh how he loves. He loves us is a love that... in several sense is law breaking. The Love of my Jesus breaks laws of nature, but thankfully My God makes the laws.

First, I would like to talk about grammar. I know, we all hate grammar, but it does make a point. Sin is a verb, not a noun. People like to think that it is Sin that is evil and sin, not sinners, should go to hell, but sin is not a noun. You cannot do anything with sin. Sin is an action, once completed is done and finished. Actions have consequences, but the consequence is not put on the sin, but the person that committed the sin, which would be the sinner. Sin is a terrible thing, but it is indeed OUR actions, but not a sentient being, nor a physical entity. What the 'evil' of sin is... is us. We are what is evil, not the 'sin' because that is a verb is can't be anything. Therefore the NOUN that commits the ACTION is the object of the condemnation of the action. Evil action=evil person. So God sends people to hell for their evil actions, but it is indeed the PERSON that ends up in the lake of fire because of what that person did.

The second law, the law of nature/physics: Every action has a equal and opposite reaction.

So, we have established that sin is a verb, a evil action and the reaction to sin is hell. Doesn't that make two bad things? Sin=bad. Hell=bad. Hell is a place, is is not a sentient being, it is not after you, nor your sin. Hell is neither intelligent nor alive, it is a place. So, hell isn't out to get you. Then what is?

GOD. God is out to get you. He will punish sin, that is one of his promises and us being the sinners are the direct object of that wrath.

Now, back to the law of nature. The opposite reaction of our wickedness is God's holiness. God sending sinners to Hell is right, righteous, pure, holy, just and every other attribute of God. God is doing the right thing when he sends sinners to hell. Consider attributes of God, every one of those is why God sends people to hell. Love? How could love send people to hell? God is Love right? And his perfect love loves what is holy, meaning, himself. God loves his Glory and he is RIGHT to do so and he will not have his wicked creation staining his holiness. He does not need us to be happy, he does not need our worship, he does not need anything from us. WE ARE WORTHLESS. WE BELONG IN HELL, NOT WITH A PERFECT GOD. If we were to truly see our wickedness and his perfection-with a right heart- we would know that we do cannot be in his presence.

So, how do we have a relationship with such a perfect God?

Yeshua, Jesus, Lord of Lords, Kings of Kings, Prince or Peace, The one who comes on a White Horse, Savior, Messiah, Redeemer, Lover, Son of God, The Christ. God Himself, Jesus Christ broke the laws of nature in order to bring us sinners into his love for His glory.

The New Law of Grace. Read Galatians... it is all about the New Law, the law of freedom, a law that does not require anything from us to be justified before God. It is ALL CHRIST. Because he loved us, and (remember he does not need us) he wants us to have Him not for His benefit (because we can't benefit God) but for our benefit. How awesome is that?

This holy God came down to take the punishment that HE was going to inflict upon us who deserved it. Jesus is a person, he did an action that saved us from the action that He Himself should have done to us. What AMAZING LOVE, he sacrificed himself to save us from HIM. It isn't so much that he is saving us from our sins, remember our sins aren't out to get us, he saved us from his just punishment.

In human terms, what Christ did on the Cross was... wrong... in a legal sense, everything that has seen GOD should have said, “NO!! They have rebelled against you, oh God. Defend your holiness. Destroy them!!” and He should. But for some reason this Holy God said, “No. I WANT them to know me. I WANT them to be with me. I LOVE them. And I WILL SAVED THEM. They will be HOLY because I will make them HOLY.”

ONLY GOD COULD DO THAT!! only something that is Holy could make something else holy. But there is still a problem with our sins, those actions that we committed against God. What could be done about those, they can't be undone... they've already happened. But Something else happened outside of time, nature and comprehension. Something that defied all of nature. God himself came to earth, lived a sinless life. HE was innocent. There was no sin to be paid for in his flesh, so he could take ours.

Jesus did that, he took the punishment for our sins because he WANTED us. And all he asks of us is to believe and love him. He says REPENT, turn from those actions that damned us to hell and live to serve him. And the best part. He died, forgave and loved even though he knew that we would fail. We still sin, and he still loves and forgives. And he gives us the power through his Holy Spirit to live in a manner different from the world, not perfect, but trying to live to please him. And someday we will be with him in heaven and we will succeed, we will be sinless... and we will worship such an awesome God for all of eternity.

Conversation with in myself.

Here is me complaining to myself about how guys never 'like' me. And I am half way convinced that I am going to be single all my life, and yes that would be amazing. There is no better place than alone with Christ. But am I to be alone until I am finally married with Christ in Glory. So here is how the conversation went.

What should I do? Am I to be single forever? Should I ever keep a look out for a Godly man? Should I not even let myself be attracted to a guy, a Godly guy? Shall I give up on Romance completely or keep hoping and waiting on a husband?

~~~~~~~~Wait on the Lord.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

But what do I do about love? I'm not even sure I even believe in that kind of Love. What should I do with my heart that longs so much to be loved?!

~~~~~~~~~~~You are loved.~~~~~~~~~~~~~

But not my a boy. :(

~~~~~~~~~By a GOD. The GOD. ~~~~~~~



Don't you love it when you lose an argument to yourself?

Love letters. 2010

Love letters.


I have some love letters I need to write for the end of the semester, so much has happened and there are so many people who have touched my life.

First, to you who love. You love deeply and truly, more than I have ever know a man to love. You are capable of living even who you know that you will not receive such love back. You embody not only loving those who love you, but loving all people. You are really a lover of souls. You are strong and kind and gentle. You are patient and not over barring, you do not boast and you do not envy. You have taught me a lot about love this semester. You keep telling me how you are loving to see the love that is going on in amongst the Brothers and Sisters in Christ, and you my friend are loving greatly. You show the love of Christ all the time and it is amazing. And your love is intentionally. You don't love haphazardly, but on purpose. You have shown me so much about selfless love and purposeful love. Everything you say or do has seems to have the purpose of loving on another. And I love that. You are an awesome man of God and I love to see how you and and I want you to know that you are loved also.

Second to you two, you who are true women of God. You are sisters in Christ and in reality. You both show true womanhood in Christ. You are both what a woman should be. Not over barring or loud, but you really do have the gentle and quiet spirit that Peter talks about in his epistles. You are sweet and loving and kind, all the things that I am not and want to be. I love to see how you work in humility, even when you are both so awesome and talented. You have taught me much over this semester and I am glad to call you my friend and sisters.

Third, to you who have a great faith in your Lord. You are busy and stressed and you don't know where the Lord is taking you, but your faith is strong and you never waver. You faith has been a help and a peace to me over this semester. I am no where near as busy as you are, but life pushes on all sides and you show a true faith in Christ that is wonderful. There is not much more I can say except that you have touched my life in so may ways, as my best friend and sister. And the picture of your faith has encouraged me so much over these last months of school.


Fourth, to you who love His words and have wisdom. You love your books and your studies, and you truly love God's word more than anything or anyone I know. You want to know more and you see so much in everything. The Psalmist says over and over again “Teach me your laws” and you, my friend, are really seeking to learn his laws. Your live shows your love for his word and it is awesome. And because of your love for His words you are wise, and your wisdom comes from Him. People can pour out their hearts to you and you listen and can always help, you always have a word from God to bless a broken spirit. You know his word and that is so beautiful.

Fifth, to you who have passion. The first thing I discovered about you was that you were very smart, the second was that you had a passion for the Lord like I have never seen. I've seen passion that is great and inflamed, but then it fades. Your has not. Your passion his hot and fresh and it makes me want to know more about this Awesome God we serve. You passion is amazing, some times it takes you away with it, but still your heart burns for the Lord. Every word, every act everything you learn, say or do seems to come from your love and passion for Christ. And seeing that this semester has encouraged me greatly.

All these things I just praised about you are to tell you how you all have encouraged me since I have met you and to say that I love you. So many, most of the attributes are things that I am trying to do. And I never knew I lacked so much until I met you guys. I have never been so 'young' before. I have never know people with love, faith, humility, wisdom and passion like you before. And it is amazing. I love having people that I spend all my time with that I look up to. You have no idea how much you have moved my heart and changed my life. I am so thankful that God has put you in my life!

Josephine Edwards

וְקָרָא זֶה אֶל־זֶה וְאָמַר קָדֹושׁ קָדֹושׁ קָדֹושׁ יְהוָה צְבָאֹות מְלֹא כָל־הָאָרֶץ כְּבֹודֹֽו׃

Holy Holy Holy is the Lord GOD almighty!

Isaiah 6: Did you ever want to be a prophet?

In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the LORD seated upon a throne, high and lifted up, and the trail of his robe filled the temple. And above him flew the Seraphim each had six wings with two he covered his face, with two he covered his feet and with two he flew. And one called to another

"Holy, Holy, Holy, is the LORD of Hosts; the whole earth is full of his Glory. "

And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house filled with smoke. And I said, "Woe is me for I am lost! I am a Man us unclean lips amongst a people of unclean lips, for my eyes have seen the Glory of the Lord of Hosts!!

The one of the Saraphim flew to me, having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the alter. And he touched my mouth and said; "Behold, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for."

And I heard the voice of the LORD saying, "Whom shall I send and who shall go for us?"

Then I said, "Here I am Lord send me!"

And he said, "So and say to this people,
Keep on hearing and do not understand
Keep on seeing but do not perceive
Make the hearts of this people dull
With heavy ears and blind their eyes;
Lest they see with their eyes
and hear with their ears
and understand with their hearts
and turned and be healed."

Then I said, "How long, O Lord?"

And he said, "Until the cities lie waste without inhabitant and houses without people, and the land is a desolate waste. And the Lord removes people faraway and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land. And though a tenth remain it will be burned again, like a terebinth or an oak whose stump remains after it is felled."

The Holy see is its stump.



OK. So I am memorizing this this semester, I typed most of that from memory...

Lately I have been learning what that means. Often I hear the first part of that verse preached on. The "Holy Holy Holy" which is awesome, because God is Holy! And I've heard the "Woe is me for I am Lost/Undone" which too is awesome, because an encounter with Christ takes us apart quite rapidly, and we are undone. Also I've heard the "Lord send me!" Part preached on. I am going to be a missionary. I have responded to his call with "Lord send me!" But I have never realized what that really meant until now.

A while back I was talking with a dear friend of mine who is also called to ministry. I recited the first part of the passage to him I got the "Go and say to this people..." I didn't know it past there. And he asked me if I ever wanted to be a Prophet . I didn't understand how much that calling meant. His face was sad when he said that, I did not understand why, it is a wonderful calling to be a prophet...

This beloved friend is wiser than his years and more than he knows, I love him so much and he has shown me a lot in the past few months that I have know him. He understood what came after "here I am Lord send me!" That is not something we should say carelessly.

"Go and say to this People..."

They will never understand, they will never care, they will NEVER turn. You will be the best preacher ever Isaiah, but no matter what you do they will not believe in me. You will speak my words from my own mouth. (He spoke Scripture!!) and they will not ever turn to Me. And this is for my Glory. You will FAIL, you will never see success in this life. Those who you love and yearn that they know My salvation, they never will. You will Pray and beg and speak with words of gold, but they will never understand, because I GOD will not open their ears. Not until the land is a desolate waste.

I don't know what that all that passage means, nor can I interpret it, but it is a hard command. Would I still be willing to go, spend my life speaking knowing that it may be his will that NONE turn due to my words. And it is for HIS GLORY, no matter how good (or bad) I am, it is only him who saves and only Him who opens ears. Only when he moves will, only with his Spirit will anything ever change in a human heart.

I will be a woman of sorrow, of pain and of longing. I will love these people deeply and I will speak day in and day out of the Salvation of Christ, but they will never believe. I pray that I will have blessings that they will turn, I pray that that is his will, but if not...

Oh! What a faith took Isaiah to go knowing that he would never see fruit in his life time, but he would still obey, he still preached. And he never saw anything and he kept preaching until he died. (wasn't he killed?). But the Messiah did come, and people were saved through his preaching, us now are products of his preaching. His word are in the bible. But he never saw anything.

And it was all for His Glory.

So when we yell, "Here I am, Lord send me!!" we better be thinking his GLORY not their salvation. Their salvation is AWESOME and in part our purpose but only under His Glory. If we are going to see converts, to see people saved. Stay home. Our hearts will be broken. The only way to go is to go with a vision of his GLORY, that will sustain us. And that is why you go, not for them, but for HIM!! A vision of peoples salvation will never keep us when that vision does not come true. But a vision of his GLORY will keep us, because that vision is TRUE and true indeed, unending and perfect.

I am so afraid of my calling. I accept it with fear and trembling. I am terrified, of his Glory and of his will. I don't know what is to come. But he is awesome. I am not going for their souls, I am going for His glory and their souls for his glory, I pray, are part of his plan for his Glory. He has called me to love, but that love may come with a heavy and broken heart for the people I am sent to.

Have you even wept over the lost in the world? the lost that have never heard his name, have never been given a chance to know him, who are stuck in false religions or are going to school with you and don't and won't know him.

This should keep you up at night and cause you to weep: His Name is not glorified all over the world. They Do not glorify him should! There are religions who do not worship HIM. That is the fuel for missions and ministry. His Glory.

Why would anyone flippantly call out, "Here I am LORD send me" That is the most heart breaking callings in the bible and still is.

Why would anyone want to be a Prophet?
Only those called by God would be willing to endure such a calling.

New clothes!!!

The Parable of the Wedding Feast.

I was talking to Sarah Wilson today, trying to explain this parable. The main point I made was WHO was Christ talking to, the Pharisees. And I have always got the main part... or what I thought was the main part. But the last part... I never really understood until I was explaining it... and I stole from MacArthur and had read, but I didn't get it until I was talking about what I had said with my mother later.

'Go therefore to the main roads and invite to the wedding feast as many as you find.'
"And those servants went out into the roads and gathered all whom they found, both bad and good. So the wedding hall was filled with guests.
"But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who had no wedding garment.
"And he said to him, 'Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?' And he was speechless
"Then the king said to the attendants, 'Bind him hand and foot and cast him into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'
"For many are called, but few are chosen."

okay. Never really gotten that before. The whole he didn't have the garment... but today I had a lightbulb moment!! I love when God gives us those

When all the destitute people came into the feast they knew that they were nasty and unworthy, but the King gave then new clothes. He clothed them in the clothes of the bride groom, which the feast was for. and every man and woman who got into the hall had on new clothes that were not his or her own, but the Bridegrooms. they changed clothes. But the change they had was not of themselves but of Christ.

they didn't just change clothes, they CHANGED, but they didn't change on their own and they didn't even change into something that was their own, but CHRIST'S!! How AWESOME IT THAT???

Christ gave out of his closet of righteousness new wedding garments that we could all ware. Even thought we had not worth or right or even cleanliness on out own. He gives us new clothes, he gives us the ability to take off our old nasty lives and put on his awesome gift of a new set of clean clothes that are HIS, his worthiness and love and joy and and and and... oh it goes on and on. Do you see what he has given us??? He has given us new clothes!!!! We can take off what was old and put on something new!! I mean, do you see that??? New!! HIS clothes that we might attend HIS feast!! Oh Amazing Grace!! we can change because he gave his life that we can have something new to change into!! We can be new creations be cause he died to change us into something clean!!

Oh, that is SO AMAZING!!! So Awesome!! I love it.

Then there is the poor guy who didn't have the garment. He could have gotten one, but he didn't want to change, but he wanted the benefits of the feast. He wanted into the kings palace, but he didn't want to change his clothes. He did not want the gift of the bride groom. he just wanted was it could give him as he was. He didn't want to change when he had the opportunity to be changed into something clean and beautiful. And God tossed him out.

Oh, if you have not changed clothes... if you have not taken the free gift of Christ. Take the Bridegrooms wedding garment, CHANGE, let him change you. What a gift a new clean robe of righteousness that we can sit at the table of the KING and the Bridegroom!!

God is AWESOME and GOOD and PERFECT and and and and and...

Not my normal thing. Forwarded from my father. I think it is awesome!

Emergency Weather Bulletin

This text is from a county emergency manager out in the northeastern part of Montana after a severe snow storm ...

The Glasgow Courier

WEATHER BULLETIN

Up here in the Northeastern Part of Montana we just recovered from a Historic event --- may I even say a "Weather Event" of "Biblical Proportions" --- with a historic blizzard of up to 44" inches of snow and winds to 90 MPH that broke trees in half, knocked down utility poles, stranded hundreds of motorists in lethal snow banks, closed ALL roads, isolated scores of communities and cut power to 10's of thousands.




FYI:


Obama did not come.


FEMA did nothing.


No one howled for the government.


No one blamed the government.


No one even uttered an expletive on TV.


Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton did not visit.


Our Mayors did not blame Obama or anyone else.


Our Governor did not blame Obama or anyone else either.


CNN, ABC, CBS, FOX, or NBC did not visit - or even report on this category 5 snow storm.




Nobody demanded $2,000 debit cards.

No one asked for a FEMA Trailer House.

No one looted.

Nobody - I mean Nobody demanded the government do something.

Nobody expected the government to do anything either.

No Larry King, No Bill O'Rielly, No Oprah, No Chris Mathews and No Geraldo Rivera.


No Shaun Penn, No Barbara Striesand,
No Brad Pitts, No Hollywood types to be found.






Nope, we just melted the snow for water.


Sent out caravans of SUV's to pluck people out of snow engulfed cars.


The truck drivers pulled people out of snow banks and didn't ask for a penny.


Local restaurants made food, and the police and fire departments delivered it to the snow bound families..


Families took in the stranded people - total strangers.




We fired up wood stoves, broke out coal oil lanterns or Coleman lanterns.

We put on an extra layers of clothes because up here it is "Work or Die".


We did not wait for some affirmative action government to get us out of a mess created by being immobilized by a welfare program that trades votes for 'sittin at home' checks.


Even though a Category 5 blizzard of this scale is not usual, we know it can happen and how to deal with it ourselves.






I hope this gets passed on.

Maybe .....
SOME people will get the message ......
The world does Not owe you a living.

Who are you dancing with?

Who are you dancing with?

I had this idea swimming in my mind last night… but I am not sure I remember what I was supposed to right. But here goes.

I see walking with Christ sometimes like a dance, yes it is a race, but for a woman I can see describe it as a dance. Christ leads making you more beautiful with ever step. You can feel where he wants your feet to go next, and when you make a mistake, he patiently waits for you to recover your rhythm. He never makes a false step, never goes to fast, never spins you to hard. He teaches you new steps gently and he is intent on making you beautiful. Now this is the perfect dance. With Christ.

This is what I feel should happen when God someday brings me the Man who can ask to cut in while I am dancing with Him. Then Jesus will say, “Lead her well, do not hurt her, be careful with my beloved daughter. You may dance with her a song but always remember she is Mine.” And my husband will nod, take my hand and lead me in the dance. He will not be as prefect as Christ, but he will be better than me. He will know the steps, keep rhythm, pay attention to me and also be intent on making me beautiful. This dance will be fun! He will spin me on beat, dip me, life me in to the air. We will laugh and talk, but the whole time he is taking care of me.

When people dance together I always have such respect to the men who actually know how to dance. You see this is what the men have to do: They have to KNOW the steps. They have to KEEP time and rhythm. They have to Listen to the music and move to it. They have to LEAD their partner into steps. And they have to PROTECT and PAY ATTENTION to their partner. And they have to THINK up what is coming next and PLAN AHEAD. And his intention will be to make me more BEATUIFUL with every step.

This is a lot to do all at once don’t you think?

Now boys don’t get all high and mighity now. We woman have to follow what you send to us. We have to know what you are thinking and about to do with out verbal keys. We have to understand listen to follow what you lead. That is hard. We never know what is coming, this is all an adventure for us.

That is how God made men and women. Our roles fit together in a perfect dance. He leads I follow, it is impossible to do alone and each must do what he or she is supposed to and it is the most beautiful, joyful adventure any human will ever have.

Now, this is what I am afraid many of you, my dear girlfriends, are looking for or even have.

Are you dancing with a boy who doesn’t know the steps, doesn’t listen to the music, doesn’t keep rhythm and does not send the right signals. It is dancing with you to make himself look good? Is he a poorer dancer than you are? Does his dance neither excite you or bring you joy? Is it not an adverture?

The worst dance partners are boys who think they know what they are doing, but they hardly know any moves and they lead them badly. They don’t follow the steps of the dance and send ques that are confusing. But they main thing is that they are out there to make themselves look good. They are not concerned with me at all. They don’t look at me, they just spin me awkwardly and roughly. They get annoyed when I don’t follow a ‘cool’ more because they don’t actually know how to read it. And they are not dancing with me, they are dancing for themselves.

That is not a good realtionship.

Now I am making this sound an awful lot like it is all about the girl… well from his point of view it is. He is trying to make me beautiful to glorify the man who gave me to him. Jesus is watching me dance with him, and my husband wants to glorify Jesus’ name by leading me the best way possible. And I in return follow well to try to make my dance partner look good, and more importantly glorify Christ with him.


Now the question is, who are you dancing with?

Are you single and dancing with Christ alone? Contenet, happy, enthralled, never wanting to dance with anyone else. There is no one else in the room. You aren’t looking at anyone but him even to the point to where your husband asks to cut in you are offended until Christ puts the joy in your heart to dance with him. Why would you want to dance with anyone else? Christ is in love with you. Dancing with him is safe and pefect. Stay with him.


Are you with someone who is leading you poorly. He doesn’t follow the music (The Sprit) he doesn’t know the moves (The Word) and he is not concerned with you. Is her jerking you around, not sanctifying you to Christ, not holding your hand to honor the GOD who made that hand. Does he see you as the gift from God the he begged for, for years and does he treat you as a priceless child of God that Christ has loaned him to HELP him glorify the God who created both of you and the Savior who saved both of you? If not. Do not dance with him any longer. You are not stuck, flee to Christ and back into the most beautiful dance ever.


Or are you with the Man who leads you strongly, but gently and lovingly. He is leading you to make you beautiful and protecting you to honor Jesus. Then good for you, and don’t let him go until he hands you hand back into Christ’s.

Or are you dancing with Christ looking around for someone else to dance with because you are not content to be with Christ? Are you searching for someone ANYONE to dance with, just to be dancing. My daughter, my friends, my sisters, you ARE dancing. You are with the PERFECT man, the ONLY perfect man to ever walk the earth is in love with YOU. Why are you looking for love anywhere else? Why are you not enthralled in his beauty as he is with yours that HE gave you. If Christ, the GOD of the universe is making you more and more lovely every day who are you to be ashamed or critical of his work? And who are you to want anything else?

Day dreams...

Day Dream Thing..

Psalm 119: 1-8
Blessed are those whose way is blameless,
Who walk in the law of the LORD!
Blessed are those who keep his testimonies.
Who seek him with their whole heart,
Who also do no wrong
But walk in his ways!
You have commanded your precepts
to be kept diligently.
Oh that my ways my be steadfast in keeping your statutes!
Then I shall not be put to shame,
Having my eyes fixed on all your commandments.
I will praise you with an upright heart,
When I learn your righteous rule.
I will keep your statutes;
Do not utterly forsake me!

Psalm 119:12-16
Blessed are you, Oh LORD; teach me your statutes!
With my lips I declare all the rules of your mouth.
In the way of your testimonies I delight as much as in all riches.
I will meditates on your precepts and fic my eyes on your ways. I will delight in your statutes;
I will not forget your word.

Psalm 119: 27
Make me understand the way of your precepts,
And I will meditate on your wondrous works.

Ok, this is my deal. I, as most girls, day dream. Its fun you can take yourself off into some wondrous world of adventure and romance. I am so sure that I am the ONLY girl who does this, ( I am rolling my eyes). I tend to dream about my future husband.

You dream of the Perfect Man, and if you have one in mind you think of him, and if not you make up the perfect GODLY man. And I don’t think that this is wrong. We live in a time where finding a Godly man is fairly hard to find. And we hope and pray that God will bring us “The One” , but in the mean time we can dream.

Now I am the worst, I want to be a missionary so I dream up some awesome adventure with an Indiana Jones type missionary counterpart who sweeps me off my feet. My dreams are full of danger and adventure and all sorts of awesomeness. (Sorry, girls, Indi trumps Edward 9 out of…well 9 times)

This is what we do.
If there is not particular guy we dream up the perfect one
And if there is the perfect one sitting next to you in class you skip that part.

Then we dream up how he will ask us out or how we meet in some awesome way.

Then how the relationship grows and is, again, awesome.

Then we dream up the perfect proposal… wonderfully romantic and thoughtful and perfect…

Then the wedding and then the life together, which for me entails missions and adventure and blah blah blah
Now, here I my challenge.

When you start this dreaming think of Jesus instead. Think of his wondrous glories, his marvelous wonder. Think of who he IS! Think of the God who created the universe. Created you and saved you.

If you want to ponder love, dwell on his love for you. The perfect romance, the prefect love. Let you mind drift towards the Christ, rather than to your future husband.

If God has a husband for you, wait on him, wait on the LORD his timing in perfect. But for now focus on Jesus, let your mind meditate on HIM!

Now, yes, pray for your future husband, as always, but let your mind Day dream about the Lover that you have right now, your savior king the LORD of power who rides the white horse and loves you with a passion that no earthly man could. Dream about him because he is with you and loves you NOW.

The Command....

We, as followers of Christ, are commanded to have courage, to be strong, to not be dismayed by the world because our LORD God is with us. This is my favorite verse, Joshua 1:9, Joshua was just commanded to take over for Moses, the man that had taken his people out of Egypt and had preformed great signs, SEEN GOD as the Lord made the Law. And now little ol' Joshua has been given charge right at the pinnacle moment before the Israelites were to take the promised land. He must have been terrified.

And God's command was to be strong and courageous. Because the LORD his God was with him, he could be strong and he could have courage.

I'm now attempting a Blog. I am going to go through Acts and Romans and attempt to write about what I learn. I'm also going to talk about some books I'm reading... "The Jesus you can't ignore" and what other revelations I get from my awesome friends, or Focus, and so on and so fourth...

I'm also going to Chronicle my adventures... Travels and just my wacky life...