Sunday, February 21, 2010
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
And he said unto them, Why are you so fearful? how is it that you have no faith?
Mark 4:40 And he said unto them, Why are you so fearful? how is it that you have no faith?
I feel like so often we get wrapped up in things of this world and the many stresses anxieties and pressures of today. I feel like there aren't enough hours in the day to get everything done. Its like I don't have time to spend with my wonderful future husband because I am so busy doing the things I feel like I need to. Being this busy also creates anxiety. But the Lord demands us to "be anxious about nothing" which is such a hard thing for me!
This semester is growing us in so many (painful) ways we never could have imagined. It amazes me how I never expect what God will teach me next.
I feel like so often we get wrapped up in things of this world and the many stresses anxieties and pressures of today. I feel like there aren't enough hours in the day to get everything done. Its like I don't have time to spend with my wonderful future husband because I am so busy doing the things I feel like I need to. Being this busy also creates anxiety. But the Lord demands us to "be anxious about nothing" which is such a hard thing for me!
This semester is growing us in so many (painful) ways we never could have imagined. It amazes me how I never expect what God will teach me next.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
It's only February 3?!
Dear friends,
Please pray for Amanda because her flesh has no patience. none.at all. And the problem is that she has already been dating the love of her life for the last 40 months, and quite honestly, doesn't want to wait another 11 months to marry him. Please pray that I will just stop focusing on the future and be content with what God has blessed me with now; which is a wonderful fiance and fabulous best friend :)
-Amanda
Please pray for Amanda because her flesh has no patience. none.at all. And the problem is that she has already been dating the love of her life for the last 40 months, and quite honestly, doesn't want to wait another 11 months to marry him. Please pray that I will just stop focusing on the future and be content with what God has blessed me with now; which is a wonderful fiance and fabulous best friend :)
-Amanda
Monday, February 1, 2010
Love
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
-1 Corinthians 13:1-3
I read this passage this morning and had a thought about it that i wanted to share. As it is read, i have always seen how these verses talked about doing "Godly" things but without His love in our hearts, and how doing this this way is worthless. It says that our motivation must always be love and we learn in scripture that this love only comes from God. Well my thoughts of late have been on marriage, for obvious reasons, and how a marraige is supposed to be a picture of Christ and the church. This verse then i thought is very applicable in my future marriage and current engagement as well, and i have seen the effects. As the verse says, i can do all of the most amazing, above and beyong things for Amanda but if they are not out of a God motivated love, they are a worthless waste of time. I have seen this in the past in that when I am not loving her with Gods love and am trying to just do things on my own she can always tell, and things just dont have the same affect (effect?) no matter how big they are, but when i do things with Gods love for her, even the smallest thing, like making her bed for her while she goes through her end of the day ritual, seem monumental and make her feel loved. So i have realized to an even deeper exent yet again how much my marriage vows to her will really be commiting to Love God and Love through God. Well, that was my brief thoughts from this morning, time to go to class.
Shalom,
TJ
-1 Corinthians 13:1-3
I read this passage this morning and had a thought about it that i wanted to share. As it is read, i have always seen how these verses talked about doing "Godly" things but without His love in our hearts, and how doing this this way is worthless. It says that our motivation must always be love and we learn in scripture that this love only comes from God. Well my thoughts of late have been on marriage, for obvious reasons, and how a marraige is supposed to be a picture of Christ and the church. This verse then i thought is very applicable in my future marriage and current engagement as well, and i have seen the effects. As the verse says, i can do all of the most amazing, above and beyong things for Amanda but if they are not out of a God motivated love, they are a worthless waste of time. I have seen this in the past in that when I am not loving her with Gods love and am trying to just do things on my own she can always tell, and things just dont have the same affect (effect?) no matter how big they are, but when i do things with Gods love for her, even the smallest thing, like making her bed for her while she goes through her end of the day ritual, seem monumental and make her feel loved. So i have realized to an even deeper exent yet again how much my marriage vows to her will really be commiting to Love God and Love through God. Well, that was my brief thoughts from this morning, time to go to class.
Shalom,
TJ
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