Hello world!

Okay, so I am going to give this blog thing a try.  I just returned from a great trip to the mountains as you can see from my header. Yes, I took that picture at the top of Mt. Mitchell, the highest point east of the Mississippi! It was absolutely beautiful and to think that heaven is even more awesome is incredible.

I have had one of those rare afternoons where my phone did not ring, I had nowhere to go and I was completely alone! Well, with the exception of Prissy, my sweet, fat cat! I enjoyed the solitude and took the time to revisit a topic from my recovery work that is very dear to my heart. I have been studying about my eternal position in Christ. You know, I have come to realize that if we don’t every fully embrace the truth about this, we will never live well. I don’t know about you, but I want to come to the end of my life and hear the Lord say, “Well done….” I fully believe that in order to hear that I need to know WHOSE I am and therefore I will know WHO I am. He has given me everything I need to live well…to accompish his purposes in my life. But, I have to cooperate with Him and surrender my will. Sounds easy, but we all know it isn’t!

Oh Lord, I pray that I bring you joy and cause you to smile as I pursue you…Your smile is the only one that matters in the big scheme of things. I want to know you more deeply as each day passes. I want to experience your presence so that my life will be so full of you and that the love you give me flows over into the lives of those you put in my path from day to day. I have nothing to give unless you fill me…speak to me, equip me, fulfill your purposes in my life, I pray.

I believe this is a critical time for us as God’s chosen vessels to rise up and seek Him with all our hearts in prayer, in praise, in living a lifestyle of worship, in soaking up His word and incorporating His truths into our lifestyle so that we can walk in His calling.  The world is full of darkenss…just look at the evening news. We are called to be carriers of His Light. When we pursue Him with all our hearts….He mobilizes us for God’s kingdom!

God is looking for you and me to totally surrender our life to Jesus Christ as “Lord”…not just as “Savior”.   I believe as we do this daily, we will experience genuine revival. We will know the joy of our salvation. But even more…the result is the light of Jesus will shine through us and pierce the darkness! The world is looking for people who possess what they profess. I believe that when we set ourselves to seek the Lord and His face, we likely will experience genuine revival.

A long time ago, I read the following and wrote it down. I don’t remember who said it, but it rings true in my ears even now.

“The world is looking for some reason to believe what we believe. (All it takes to see the evidence of this is to look at this generation of young people. They have been disillusioned by Christianity…)They are looking for reality in religion that translates into an overcoming lifestyle. They are looking for someone rich in faith, pure in heart and visibly focused on God.” Isn’t that what we all want??

Well, enough of my rantings…I will close with another statement I read or heard somewhere… ” A genuine spiritual revival will help us to put on Christ…the HOPE of glory…our complacent spiritual “nakedness” will no longer be exposed to a world that has lost faith in the credibility and integrity of modern day ‘Christianity’ as God’s spiritual light.” I just want to know Him…to love Him…to be like Him…to make Him smile…to be His friend even as He is my friend…Awww…the joy of my salvation!