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Happy Birthday to the one that made me Mom ♥️

Happy Birthday to the one that made me Mom ♥️

If it isn’t good, it isn’t God.. but He will u

If it isn’t good, it isn’t God.. but He will use it. We’re in constant prayer for God to do this or change that. God heal or God help, and we miss Him. God is working right now. Purposefully, this very minute He is knitting delicately and intricately, piece after piece of your story, but while He wastes nothing, we do as we are looking for something different.

He will use all of it. All of that bad stuff, all of the pain, all of your mistakes, your shortcomings and theirs too. He won’t waste a thing, but will you?

You have a past? Surrender; God will use it.

Your marriage is struggling? Give it to God, He will use it.

That diagnosis? Trust God. He will use it.

Someone hurt you? Love them anyway.
God will use it.

Your finances are struggling? Depend on God. He will use it.

That miscarriage, search for God. He will use it.

This world is a bad world, and on this side of eternity... it’s hard. It hurts, but everything EVERYTHING the enemy intended for evil, God will use for good.. if we’re willing. Don’t miss the message because you’re too focused on the mess. Perspective is everything.

God,

This doesn’t feel good, but I know you are good. I believe, help my unbelief. Use this, God. Use me. Help me see you. Change my perspective God and with it change my heart. Thank you, God, for trusting me with this season. Thank you, God, for You.

Amen

Last night we read about the creation. The kids c

Last night we read about the creation.

The kids couldn’t believe God made the entire world in six days.

The book asked, “what if you could speak anything into existence just like God did; what would you ask for?”

Gracie said a pet Narwhal.

Haisten said MiMi back to life.

Thirty was hard.

I can pack more tragedy in thirty years than most can’t in 80.

But God just spoke and created and entire universe in only six days.

As strange as it sounds, I was so comforted by this. If he can speak galaxies into existence in an afternoon, He can definitely change your circumstances in one.

God has wrapped all of my hard gifts in big blessings. I’ve just had to have the eye to see them both.

He had shown me tears and counted them (psalm 56:8), He has cut on me and watched me grow (John 15) He has broken my heart but never refused it (psalm 51:17).

Gracie taught me that a Narwhal was like a unicorn fish, that God made it, and it lives in the Artic. She read it in a book.

As I watched them sleep last night, I was overwhelmed with the goodness of God. Tears fell not because we miss my mom, but because there are still magical things in cold places.

It’s not different for a reason.

We must find it, we must share it, and we must not let it go to waste.

I used to think my thirties would be consumed with fears of more cellulite and wrinkles, but lately, in an honest assessment of the world around me, I really fear just running out of years to make them count.

Titus Justus, a worshiper of God. Tonight that hi

Titus Justus, a worshiper of God.

Tonight that hits my heart so hard.

Katie Sanders, ______________ .

Who are you?

If you don’t make it matter, it won’t.

“You’re all I want, you’re all I need, you’re all I have”

Tears silently slid down my cheeks as the melody of my voice carried these lies across the pew of our church on Sunday.

What I really meant is this:

I want my kids to be accepted, I want the bad stuff gone, I want the relationships healed.

I need to get my school papers finished, I need to sweep my floors, I need to find time to study for that certification test on Monday.

I have policies for work that will not write themselves, I have piles of trauma that have no home, I have depression, I have plans.

I don’t know what to tell you to do with this. I don’t have pretty words or practical advice this time, only that we just approach grace.

We hear idols and we think of golden calf but they really present in our decorated calendars.

Approaching grace does not mean abusing it.

We can recognize our sin… but are we willing to turn from it?

Will we move away from sweeping floors and instead sweep hearts?

Will we move away for our tasks, our television, and our telephones and not just accept grace’s convictions but pursue its conversion?

Will we stop pretending we are worshipping… when we are only singing?

Will we stop with the lies? With the false narratives? With the fake sanctification?

It’s one thing to say you’re a Christian, it’s something entirely different to be one.

As Jimmy Needham said, we must clear the stage.

I can be honest…

He is not all I think I want, but He should be.
He is not all I think I need, but He should be.
He is not all I have, but should be all I have that matters.

We will not achieve fullness in this life, but that does not mean we should not fervently chase it.

Our battles.. they’re with ourselves. People w

Our battles.. they’re with ourselves.

People will not always treat you as you would them. Don’t expect them too.

Just because we feel like we should, doesn’t mean we will. Fair is not biblical.

What if God really meant forgive, or you will not be forgiven? You can’t accept grace without a heart willing to also extend it.

“What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.” James 4:1-3

We pray continuously for God to “fix” the person or the “problem” skipping over the parts where we have to fix ourselves.

The division on social media alone is inordinate.

The division on social media alone is inordinate.

Christ is not divided.

Ever.

He is not pro-Christian.

Do we understand that?

He is not for the vaccinated or the unvaccinated.
He is not for the white or for the black.
He is not for the pew or for the prison.
He is not for the addict or the sober.
He is not for the Biden administration or the Trump Administration.
He is not for you or for me.

Read it again.

While all of us may identify with a number of these alliances, positions, Christ still does not choose a side.

Christ came for the lost.

Fortunate enough for us, no matter the stance above, all of us fall here.

Lost.

As a matter of fact, it’s becoming increasingly evident just how much.

While it is true our choices have weight, only one has permanence.

We will get some things right and a million things wrong in our lives, but literally only ONE decision, just one, will matter when it’s all over.

Did you accept Jesus as Lord and savior for yourself.

And until that day, on that day, and every measure of time after that, Christ is still not divided.

He will persistently, lovingly, and earnestly pursue our hearts until it’s very last beat and then the questions will not be do you have your vaccination card, who did you vote for, what color are you?

It will be: “I know you, welcome” or “Away from me, I never knew you”

That’s it.
This is all that matters.

WE ARE DISTRACTED.

WAKE UP.

Our circumstances are constantly changing, our mission hasn’t.

Every day poses a new opportunity to disagree. Hate stops when we stop participating.

Christ is not on the side of your argument. He only stands with grace.

Thank God we are accountable for our choices, but aren’t condemned by them. If the fruit of our salvation were measured, we’re failing.

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