To live....

I just need to praise God. While I was in Tennessee this summer God did an amazing work in my life. He put inside of me this almost foreign desire. A desire to praise Him. No longer out of a sense of duty or even respect, but out from a pure love and desire for Him. This is something quite new to me. And at camp, then ICC commissioning praising God and singing to Him came naturally, as an impulse, and I loved it. But now I'm back home, and I'm not sure why it's different here but it is. Perhaps everyone here isn't seeking God like in Tennesse. Maybe it's just me, that I don't feel it's my place? I don't know. But I know that I miss it, and I feel as though i'm suffocating from a lack of breath. That breath being praising God. Because that is our very purpose. As someone (C.S. Lewis i think) once said "We should alwyas be doing two things and two things only, singing, or listening, everything else is just noise" And that's paraphrased but I like what it means, we're not really living unless we're praising our God, or listening to HIM. So anyways feel free to praise God with me.

God is.....He just is. God took me, and even though i was His enemy chose for some reason to reconcile me to Himself. He is the great provider, the only source of true and lastin joy. He is the well that never runs dry, and the healer of the broken. He is my father, my master, my King, my Savior, and my mentor. He's really big. He's so righteous, and so loving. He is not only everything that we need, but He's everything we have! God is the only source we should look to for approval. Though He calls us to be holy, He is excited by our feeblest efforts. Our Father has given Himself in order to save us. And one day He will call us home to be with Him forever, then we will see His face, and He will pour out His unrestrained love upon us. And we will be able to accept it.