i just spent the past two weeks back at home (chicago) and my dads new home (toledo, ohio). both were real great and a good time to just unwind, process and get ready for this next season in my life. while at home in chicago, i spent much time just being with friends, pour into and get poured into spiritually, go to churchy, and just be with God. right when i left, as in on the plane to go back to chicago, i was listening to some worship music and i just started crying just thinking about how good God is. i seriously just don't get it! and then while being home, i was just overflowing with joy of the Lord and was crying during worship at church almost non-stop each weekend, while talking with a few people about what God is doing in my life and it was just so good. it was an honest answer to prayer, to just be broken before Him and trust that He has it all under control. so good!
yesterday while i was on my plane back here to LA, i found myself in the book of Psalms. Psalm 33 to be exact. and then i couldn't get my eyes off of the last few verses...
but the eyes of the Lord are on those who fear him,
on those whose hope is in his unfailing love,
to deliver them from death and keep them alive in famine.
we wait in hope for the Lord;
he is our help and our shield.
in him our hearts rejoice
for we trust in his holy name.
may your unfailing love rest upon us, o Lord
even as we put our hope in you.
just look at that, its so great! what really stands out to me the most here is those who fear him and his unfailing love. dude, seriously. i fear God with all of my heart. i once heard in a sermon that the fear of the Lord is fearing that He will take His hands off of you. and its so true and it just hits my heart so hard. i FEAR that. i am scared out of my mind that it will happen.
and honestly, i pray for that for all my friends. that they just get complete fear of the Lord. complete brokenness. complete wanting to just give it all up and begin and end their day with Christ as the director, just constantly moving them forward. that is so much his character too. constant. UNFAILING. great!
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This past spring i rediscovered the fear of the lord in a different way. i was thinking about the verses that say that none of us can ever fully understand or know everything about G-d, and that FREAKED me out, thinking about the fact that no matter how much we learn, and how much he reveals to us, we can NEVER fully know all that he is. all the he plans. or all that he has called us to.
fear of the lord is not of his wrath, or of his anger, or anything like that to me. its a fear that he is so much greater than we can ever actually understand, and that he can call us to something that makes absolutely NO sense to us, at any time.
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