Monday, April 14, 2008

• How Great is God?

  Friday, April 11, 2008

  How Great is God? I as driving home from a friends house just now and I just had this compulsion to listen to Life in Your Way.  I switched it to the song 'Making Waves' and just got the biggest chills down my spine.  Basically, this song is about how secure the songwriter is about himself and his decision to become a Christian.  The last two lines read as this: 'I'm standing firm. It feels so good.' It really woke a sleeping giant in me, which is what the CD is called - Waking Giants.  This meaning that there is giants in all of us that mean good but most of them are sleeping because we've all forgotten what's important.  We've all forgotten God. These lyrics, though, they felt so good to listen to.  When I devoted my life to God several years ago it was the best feeling in the world.  I felt tall.  I felt like nothing could knock me over.  The reason being - God gives me the strength that I need to go day to day.  I, in turn, know that I must fulfill the duties that God has set aside for me. 'And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose' - Romans 8:28 This verse means so much to me right now.  You see, the past few weeks I've almost forgotten about God.  I was putting other things before Him.  I put my leave, my bonus, and my friends and family before Him.  I felt the burn.  I'll be honest with you, the past few days I have felt like total crap emotionally.  Tonight is different though.  God has a plan for me and in my hour of need He picked me up and carried me in His wings.  He covered for me.  He's made me realize that I don't need worldy lusts to live my life.  I make it on the strength that He provides me.  Sometimes I think to myself that I need a girlfriend but I know that I can't have one right now.  It's nearly impossible to have a good, healthy relationship with a girl when you're tied to the Army like I am.  If I would have not been a Christian when I became a soldier, I would probably be hurting really bad right now.  In fact I know that I would.  To be frank, I don't know if I would even be in the Army.  I would be so lost without Him.  God has made this situation feasible for me, however.  He has made me comfortable with who I am.  He has shown me that I don't need the drugs, the sex, the money to survive.  He has shown me life. 'You could have fled and who could have blamed You? but you chose to stay and bear the weight that I had placed upon You Father I can't understand how You could ever love me when I'm so undeserving and unworthy of anything.' -And So We'll be With the Lord Forever, Here I Come Falling Those are lyrics to an interlude by Here I Come Falling.  They tie in to this next verse: 'For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life' - John 3:16 That is one of the most common verses in the Bible, but it means so much.  God sent His one and only Son, who is perfect, to take punishment for sinners like you and I.  He took our burdens so that someday we will have everlasting life.  We will rejoice in the Heavens someday with Him.  It's such a big sacrifice to you and me.  I know that I am undeserving of this, just like the lyrics state.  I just told you earlier in this blog that I forgot about God for a few weeks.  Yet, I pray to Him once and He forgives me.  It seems unfair.  It's as if He should wait a few weeks before forgiving me.  But he doesn't, because He is that great.  He is so great that we can't even fathom at it.  I don't write this blog to convert you to Christianity.  Instead, I write this blog to inform you of how much God has truly done for me.  I'm 19 years old.  I've stayed away from drugs, alcohol, and sex all of my life.  I'm in the Army with a job that I love.  I'm making quite a bit of money to include a large bonus that I originally wasn't even supposed to get.  I'm getting benifits that a lot of people in my hometown area don't even get.  I have loving parents and a loving Pap.  I don't deserve what I have, but God has made all of this possible.  My trust in Him only gets stronger every day.  I know where I'm going when I die.  I don't question it, ever.  'I will sing to the Lord all my life; I will sing praise to my God as long as I live. May my meditation be pleasing to Him, As I rejoice in the Lord' - Psalm 104:33-34

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