You! Jonah!

"And Jonah stalked
to his shaded seat
and waited for God
to come around
to his way of thinking.
And God is still waiting for a host of Jonahs
in their comfortable houses
to come around
to His way of loving."
-Thomas Carlisle

"O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you;
   my soul thirsts for you;
my flesh faints for you,
   as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.
So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary,
   beholding your power and glory.
Because your steadfast love is better than life,
   my lips will praise you.
So I will bless you as long as I live;
   in your name I will lift up my hands.

 My soul will be satisfied as with fat and rich food,
   and my mouth will praise you with joyful lips,
when I remember you upon my bed,
   and meditate on you in the watches of the night;
for you have been my help,
   and in the shadow of your wings I will sing for joy.
My soul clings to you;
   your right hand upholds me."

-Psalm 63:1-8

I applaud the radio station in it's choice to play Britney Spears' "Til the World Ends" on the supposed Dooms Day/End of the World which the preacher Harold Camping so cleverly predicted was to happen on May 21st, 2011. I guess Matthew 24:36 slipped past him?

"But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father."

The fact that no one but God the Father knows when the rapture will occur is all the more reason for us to prepare constantly for Christ's return. We are to look forward to the day when all will be made right, and we will glorify our God in heaven among all the redeemed. 

"Here I am. I stand with arms wide open to the One, the Son, the Everlasting God."



Ready to witness God work this summer.

Who is God to me?

Above all, He is my Savior.  My only way to salvation, the only One I seek to bring glory.  He set the path for my life, but loved me enough to let me choose whether I will follow or whether I will stray.  However, if and when I stray, He will be there right alongside me to pick me up and steer me back onto the path He has willed for me.  Throughout my life I have always known of how “God loves us and has sent His only Son to die for us so that we might have everlasting life".  Knowledge though, is much different from the feeling of this grace, the overwhelming presence that comes through having felt His hand of grace, His touch of love.  When we’re down on our knees begging for mercy, laying awake in our beds brokenhearted, or sitting in a church pew lacking desire to praise Him…He is there.  He will be merciful with us and forgive us when we fall, He will be “close to the brokenhearted and save those who are crushed in spirit”, and He will be waiting with arms wide open for us to come back to Him.

“My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.” 

Psalm 73:26

The Greatest Love Story Ever Told.