Comfort.

Lately I have been struggling and all I want to do is listen to God. I even have stopped talking for a while just to pray and read the word. It's not that hard and it makes you think about your actions more...

PSALM 18

V6: In my distress I called upon the LORD;
to my God I cried for help.
From his temple he heard my voice,
and my cry to him reached his ears.

V16-19: He sent from on high, he took me;
he drew me out of many waters.
He rescued me from my strong enemy
and from those who hated me,
for they were too mighty for me.
They confronted me in the day of my calamity,
but the LORD was my support.
He brought me out into a broad place;
he rescued me, because he delighted in me.

V28-30: For it is you who light my lamp;
the LORD my God lightens my darkness.
For by you I can run against a troop,
and by my God I can leap over a wall.
This God—his way is perfect;
the word of the LORD proves true;
he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.

I feel so trapped.

I really don't want to make this into a venting blog. And sometimes I wish I posted more, because a lot of the times when I post I go back and read it a few days later and realize certain things about myself.
But lately. I have felt trapped. Not mentally but physically. Yet I am set free. I am set free by Jesus. But I still feel trapped.
Sometimes I think "If it was summer, and I could ride down to the lake, then I would be happy" And yes sometimes it's good to get out but really, Jesus should be the only thing that I need to be ok.
But sometimes I feel like I dunno...
I am praying. Right now I am out of words, to keep writing, sorry I stopped mid-thought. But I am praying my heart out right now just to feel, not so trapped, not suffocated. But maybe I am praying the wrong things...

The Word.

I know I don't post everyday. Sometimes I feel my thoughts need to collect over a period of time in order to make sense. But here's something I was reading today

Galations 1
6I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— 7which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. 8But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned! 9As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let him be eternally condemned!
10Am I now trying to win the approval of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

The Onion Story AKA The union of the onions.

(By Brittany and Kayla but mostly Britt)

On one dark night, a rebellious onion was born. This onion refused to submit to it's lot in life. It refused to be eaten by humans. It gathered the other onions together against the humans in a revolt. The onions killed many of the humans... but in the end... the humans won and continued to eat the onions. To this day... the humans still cry over they're loss when they cut onions
one day... the onions will unite again... *whispers* they're coming!

What relevance does this have to anything? Absoultely nothing! But randomness is fun sometimes.

Everything

"Cause you're all I want
You're all I need
You're everything, everything"
And then it repeats a whole bunch of times...
"When how can I stand here with You
And not be moved by You
Would you tell me how could it be
Any better than this"

Now this is not a Christian artist that sings this...unless I am wrong which I highly doubt it. But wouldn't it be amazing if we sat there and sung that about Jesus. We are standing with Him, he's all we want, all we need and we can't see how much better it could be. That's how I desire life to be. Constantly wanting to be like Jesus, in his presence, being everything that I could possibly want or possibly need.
That is my prayer for myself and for you too.

Godless

So I am reading this book called 'Godless'. It's about this boy who makes up his own religion because he is sick of his parent's (whom are Catholic) His god of his religion is the water tower of the town. He says: "Water from that tower was piped to every home and business for miles around. It kept us alive. That was when I came up with the idea of the water tower being God"
As soon as I read that sentence, I thought about how much it related to everyone including me.
Grace is like water, it's piped to everyone.
God keeps us alive. Eternally.
Now the whole idea of the water tower being God what in our lives do we make our God? I know I would like to say "I don't make anything my God" but then I would be lying.
Many of us could say friends, the computer, parties, video games, movies, shopping and the list could go on. And half the time we don't realize what we are doing.
So is this boy in the book outrageous and needs to be locked in a room with a Bible? No. It is sin. And we all have sinned, so why should one person be condemned for their sin and all of us just sit around and watch? That's not how it works.
I honestly don't want anyone to think that I am preaching right now... But basically what is on my mind is that, I need to clean up my act. I shouldn't be making my guitar hero, God.
A sacrifice was made so I could have a relationship with God...why am I wasting it?

First post!

Hey! I have been trying to get a blog going for a long time now. I am going to try to make this a combined blog with one of my friends. I will see how that works out.
This is going to be a very random blog. It will basically be whatever is on my heart that day, random stuff, thoughts etc, and basically whatever God is calling me to write.
Feel free to comment. I am always up for suggestions, critques, and new ideas.
Thanks for reading.