Heart Matters

As I listen to Carolyn McCulley I have been thinking about life and this is what God has me meditating on. 

There is sufficient grace for the day. God has been working in amazing ways in the lives of people that I know. God leads us when we are not looking according to his will. He will bring us trials that we might be refined by His consuming fire into a faith more precious than gold even fine gold. I am not super spiritual, God has taken away many distractions (thoughts, circumstances, and material things) and has revealed his faithfulness. It is God that moves the hearts and minds of men, God had me attend today a very God glorifying marriage. It is such a blessing to know God works in ways man in his limited knowledge cannot understand. As a woman who is single I have seen in my own life how weddings leads to questions and emotions, sinful and non-sinful in the past, but those moments do still occur. Yet God reveals Himself in such ways that make me weep with joy that my God should care so much that He draws me away to minister to my soul. May I see God in all the moments of my life. Today I am rejoicing like John did, weddings point to Christ. Marriage points to the intimate way God knows us and care for us. 

In Christ, 

Levita

Change and growing Love

My friends are getting married. Things are changing. Marriage means becoming one with another person, another picture of the church. It means a commitment a covenant made before God. So why do I feel strange. Why do I feel that my life is going a place that I do not know? God have been allowing me to be me. Parts of me need to change. I need God to do a work in me. I do not want envy to grow. I will trust that God will do as He will, my life is hidden with Christ on high. I guess I am afraid to put that desire in God's hands. Yet my God is faithful even when I am faithless. Lord please help my unbelief.

Learning about worship

Psalm 29:1-2 NASB
Ascribe to the LORD, O sons of the mighty, Ascribe to the LORD glory and strength. Ascribe to the LORD the glory due to His name; Worship the LORD in holy array.

Worship as I see is when in response to knowing God, knowing who we are (vessels of clay), knowing/abiding in the redemption of Christ, brings forth praise and thanksgiving to glorify God in our lives. What we do every day is worship from brushing our teeth to working to what we wear and this worship rests on Jesus.

In worship through singing, as I have learned about God, his divine nature and attributes, the more I tend to waver between music that is full of theology and yet/also songs that have a deep passion for Christ. This means Come Thou Fount, could be back to back with Triune Praise by Shai Linne, and Your Great Name by Natalie Grant. All these songs worship God in different music styles. Come Though Fount is a classical Hymn, Triune Praise is Hip Hop, and Your Great name Contemporary Christian.

Yet one thing that I know is wrong in music, as a Christian to take music that lifts up sin and yet love it. This means TV and books as well. It is worldliness and one as a believer cannot have the fallenness of the outside world to pervade our hearts and minds. It leads to a hardening of the heart when it comes to sin. Yet I digress.

True worship starts with a heart in communion with Christ - this means a person in prayer and in the word. This means also preaching the Gospel to oneself. We are the redeemed, washed clean in the blood of Jesus, sealed by the Holy Spirit into adoption, and this knowledge results in praise and thankfulness to a God is holy, and just, and good in all His ways. That He would be just and the justifier of people who deserve His wrath and anger. So we as people born-again to a living hope live our lives thankful we could change a dirty diaper, serve our brothers and sisters in needs, and love one another.

May I have a heart of true worship.

Truly God is Good

I trust that God will continue to work in my heart and soul. That I not idolize anyone/anything/any circumstance. God has been changing my heart while I have not been looking. Bitterness, envy, covetousness is being taken away and replaced with grace, kindness, and peace within. I have been spending time with family, with brothers and sisters in Christ. I wanted to share with them my life. I am not one to have many stories to tell but I trust that God will take my life, my dreams, and all that I am in His Hands and make me lovely in His eyes. I am rather plain, not thin like the fashion now at days. I am a woman. Yet God is making me lovely inside. I am a lily of the valley.

The Love of my Father

He sees me and loves me. 

He knows my frame he knows I am but dust. 

I will trust you. 

You have crowned me with loving kindness.

and only in your eyes am I lovely.

I am a lily of the valley like many other women

Your Son bought me for His own position

I who was a slave you gave freedom and made me your own

Your will be done in my life my Father