“…Are you willing to die for what you believe in?…” wisdom from Eragon. It’s crazy to me how many ways God speaks to us. Simply amazing.
I was thinking this today… I swear. Then I got on tumblr and saw this via myowncatharsis. And now I’m like, LORD WHAT’S WRONG WITH ME!??!?!??!!!?!!?!??
Perks of being a girl becoming a young woman becoming a lady becoming a future wife.
AND NOW, back to cleaning my apartment… or practicing my cello… or playing video games… or going for a night drive. Or just staying on tumblr. Do I know? No, at the moment, I don’t.
:)
(Source: emilyknapp, via myowncatharsis)
Prayer Request
So, sooo frustrated.
Tonight I’m in my home town visiting my best friend of the last ten years. Half my life.
I’m a Christian, she’s not. I love her to death. I want the best for her.
She’s living with her boyfriend who I don’t really care for but was pretty cool in high school… we all used to hang out and smoke and do stupid stuff. Those were different times.
They’re living together now and I was over visiting and I walked in on a conversation about looking at people’s butts. Kind of strange already, I know. I kind of jokingly piped in, thinking it was in fact a joke and said, “hey if you’re looking at other people’s butts you’re NOT marrying my best friend.” And he responded, “what I look at butts all day long…she does it too she’s ok with it.” She kinda smiled. “You think Nic doesn’t look at other people’s butts? Everyone does it.” “Well I don’t! That’s ridiculous! Why would you want to look at anyone else’s butt?” “It’s nice to just look!”….
A few other things were said and I don’t really remember the rest.
I kind of went into shock in my head as I looked at my friend.. my best friend of ten years. And she was smiling..appeared to be joking. But I KNOW her. I’ve been there through her boyfriends. There were a lot fewer than MY sad number. I KNOW how a woman wants to feel by her mate… I KNOW how Christ feels toward the church. As much as I can know.
I saw her there… different. She at some point had made a decision to settle with the world’s view of relationships.
It breaks my heart.
The temptation to just look… that’s where distrust and divorce begins!! That’s just the beginning? Why is it so easy for us to be short sighted?!
That’s why we need the guiding of the Spirit.
I hate seeing my friends settle.
I have settled before. Then the Lord showed me how big He is… how I don’t need to settle because He wants us to share in that with Him. I serve such an awesome God….
Please, anyone who follows me on here. Prayer makes a difference.
I want my best friend to see the face of Jesus. I want her to know salvation.
Please pray for her.
And me as I’m with her. I pray I hear God’s guidance…not my own doubts and emotions.
Thanks so much for reading and praying.
~Chelsea in Arkansas
How I’ve felt today …pretty much since last week.
(via infinitelyemilyyy)
“Being satisfied in God (or anything) always seems easier when all is going well. But when things you love are being stripped out of your hands, then the test is real. If God remains precious in those moments, then his supreme worth shines more brightly. He is most glorified.
The most meaningful testimonies I receive are when people tell me that it was a vision of the sovereignty and goodness of God that got them through the most difficult times of their life.
Here is one of those testimonies. I tremble with the glad responsibility of introducing you to Ian & Larissa Murphy in this video. Tremble, because it is their story and so personal. So delicate. So easily abused. So unfinished. Glad, because Christ is exalted over all things.”
- John Piper.
Without a doubt, one of the most touching love stories. Love that goes beyond, stays, and grows in hard times.
Wow. Amen.
This is seriously amazing
This is beautiful.
I cried so hard…. we serve such a loving God.
(via godsradicaldaughter)
Sing Songs Of Praise
“…But I will not forget You…”
You make beautiful things out of dust.
You are making me new!
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Some people argue that applying logic to religion is false or misleading. They insist that ultimate truth comes only through some type of nonrational intuition. Their argument betrays them, however, because in arguing against logic they must first presuppose the laws of logic to attempt a refutation. To do so is, of course, self-contradictory. As Christian apologists Norman Geisler and Ronald Brooks point out, “Even those who claim, ‘Logic does not apply to God,’ use logic in that very statement.”13
To divorce oneself from the self-evident laws of thought when it comes to ultimate reality is to resign oneself to irrationality. Netland explains a price too great for most people to pay because it requires the “forfeiture of the possibility of meaningful affirmation or statement about anything at all––including statements about the religious ultimate. One who rejects the principle of noncontradiction is reduced to utter silence, for he or she has abandoned a necessary condition for any coherent or meaningful position whatsoever.”14
"— Currently reading: “Do All Religions Lead to God?”
