Psalm 46
Since coming back from my semester of bible college, I have for the most part felt somewhat discontent being back at home. I have been missing my home in York, the church there, and all of my friends I have been living with the past almost 4 months. I did not think that it would be an issue in the slightest since I did not have an issue going over there in that first place.
It has been more difficult adjusting to being back in California for whatever reason. It does not really feel like home. I chatted with a friend soon after I got back about this and he reminded me that California was in fact not my home. Instead Heaven is my home and I need to be looking towards that and having that be my focus. I knew that there was so much truth to this and i knew it in my head but it is an entirely different thing for my heart to really grasp the concept.
Last night I read Psalm 46 and found comfort in it. Verse 1 and 2 says “God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea.”
This spoke the same truth to me as my friend did when I got home. God is my refuge, not where I reside in my body, but where I dwell spiritually. He will help me wherever I am and I shall not fear because He is with me. Even though I may not be comfortable where I am physically, I can find my comfort in my King. The world may fall apart around me, but the Lord is a rock that will never shake and I will stand upon it.
And today i realized just how big of a mess i really am…
“Nevertheless, each person should live as a believer in whatever situation the Lord has assigned to them, just as God has called them. This is the rule I lay down in all the churches.” 1 Corinthians 7:17
Josh McDowell’s Idea Of Humor
“Finally, if postmodernism is true, then marriage is impossible. It means a man doesn’t have to really listen and understand what his wife is saying. He can put his own meaning on it. And that, most men have found over the years, gets them into a heap of trouble.”
“Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest is my beloved among the young men. I delight to sit in his shade, and his fruit is sweet to my taste. Let him lead me to the banquet hall, and let his banner over me be love. Strengthen me with raisins, refresh me with apples, for i am faint with love. His left arm is under my head, and his right arm embraces me. Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you by the gazelles and by the does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires.”
If God ever blesses me with a wife, I hope it will be one who will teach me to be even more in love with our Father.
I like this idea (Praying together before a wedding without seeing each other)
(Source: lacedinweddings)
