I will walk again.

Now, don't go getting all worried that I am laid up and immobile, that is not the case. Besides a little bit of a cold, I am feeling just fine.

Yet, as I look back on the last few months since the beginning of the year, it is hard for me to see anywhere that I have been walking on my own two feet, but it is Christ who has been carrying me through it all. 2013 has started off more crazy and random than I could have ever imagined.

There is a phrase that tends to go around when someone has a lot happening in their lives; God never gives you more than you can handle. I'm guilty as charged as I have said this to myself time and time before. What I didn't realize is that phrase is NOT supported Biblically. Go ahead, try and find a passage of scripture that will support it; I'll check back with you in a few years and see how you are doing with the search because you will still be looking. Actually, scripture tells us the exact opposite about the trials of life that we may face at any given time.

"We do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, of the affliction we experienced in Asia; for we were so utterly, unbearably crushed that we despaired of life itself. Indeed we felt that we had received the sentence of death so that we would rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead." 2 Corinthians 1:8-9 (NRSV) (my emphasis added)

We all go through times in life that we want to take matters into our own hands and work things out. That is the worst thing that we could do! During the times of struggle, we MUST rely on our Heavenly Father all the more to help us through the valleys of life.

Yep

I really wanted to rant and rave tonight, but I will refrain. All I will say is that the saying "Nice guys finish last" is true. Very true. Girls want badass boys, not the mature guy that actually has faith and morals in his life.

Heaven on Earth

The title of this post is used often by people that tend to describe a favorite place of their's that has a special meaning or beauty to them. Yet, in all reality NOTHING on this earth is even close to that of Heaven. Only God knows what Heaven is like and His children will one day experience Heaven when we spend eternity with Him.

Though, I will admit that I feel like I had a little taste of what Heaven may be like this morning. It's been about a month since I have had the opportunity to spend time in a normal worship service with my church family; between calving on the home farm, Easter Sunday outreach service, and helping a buddy on his dairy farm. Needless to say, I greatly missed my church family and was very grateful to see them this morning. Yet, I was overwhelmed with the number of people that came up to me and talk with me; wondering where I had been, missing my input in Sunday school, missing me around the coffee table, etc. It wasn't til this afternoon, that it kinda hit me that that was a taste of what Heaven could be.

Heaven is going to be nothing short of a party. Really. An eternal time of fellowship and worship with brothers and sisters in Christ WITH Christ himself, what could be better than that??! Golly, it is going to be a great time and I am definitely looking forward to that time. As all the children of God will be gathered in one place ALL the time, we won't have to wait until a worship service or gathering to be together. Yes, a little overwhelming to think of, but so AWESOME at the same time!!

Pressing on

As I sit and write this, my mind is array with many thoughts with the happenings of life within the last week. Yet, I am amidst two different scripture verses as I try and sort out life and what our Lord is revealing to me.

I Corinthians 2:8-10 "But, as it is written, 'What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him' to these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God."

Romans 8:24b-25 "Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patients." 

Talk about powerful stuff!! At times when we struggle through the trials of life, we wonder where God is in all of it. As hard as it is to tell, God is at the CENTER of it all. He promises in scripture to never leave or forsake His children. What a comforting thought!

I have never found myself crying out to Christ for mercy as I have these past few days. As life has taken a few substancial curves, I have found myself completely broken before God. As I sat in the tractor the other day in tears, pleading to Christ for strength to carry me through what He is doing. It has been quite sometime since I have felt that weak and in such need of Christ's strength. Yet, I was reminded of the passage of scripture in 2 Corinthians 12:9-10 talking about when we are weak, HE is strong. Yes, I realize that I could pray for things to be different, but that would be selfish as I would be putting my desires and wants in front of how God is desiring me to glorify Him through this trials.