Learning to live for HIS glory

Today is Easter or Resurrection Day, a day on which we (as those who believe in Jesus as our Lord and Savior) purpose to remember His sacrifice for us on the cross.  But not just His sacrifice, not just His pain and death, no we also remember His life.  For He IS RISEN!  When He died He didn't stay dead, but rose again to give us newness of life . . . to offer us the opportunity to choose Him, and in Him, victory over sin and death.  My heart is overflowing today--overflowing with joy!  For these are the truths that bring joy . . . and hope, and peace.  And I want to remember these truths, not just today, but every day.  For they are just as true tomorrow as today, and just as true next month as tomorrow.  These are the truths that put a smile on my face, and make me cheerful even when I am at work and it is 7 in the morning.  I desperately need to claim them as true in my life, to reckon them, daily.  For then I live as I a...

So the other night, my family and I watched "Facing the Giants" again for the first time in a while.  It really challenged me again.  That movie is just soooo good!  I feel like my faith is challenged every time I watch it, and trust me, I've watched it a lot! A couple things that really stick out to me from it . . . This song, it plays while Brooke is in the doctors office, wrestling with whether or not she will still love God if He never gives her children.  That scene has always been powerful to me, and I've always loved the song, so I thought I'd see if I could find it, and when I did I loved it even more!  :) Here are the words: "The secret of life is letting go The secret of love is letting it show In all that I do, in all that I say Right here in this moment The power of prayer Is in a humble cry The power of change Is in giving my life And laying down Down at your feet Right here in this moment Take my heart, take my soul I surren...

This morning, during devotions with the teams one of our team leaders from this week shared something that really got me thinking. He asked the question, "how big is your God?" Not, "how big is God?" because we all know that God is huge. He holds the entire universe in the palm of His hand. Instead He asked, "how big is YOUR God?" . . . do you limit God in the way you think about Him or in what you believe He can actually do in your life? It got me thinking . . . because I do serve the God who holds the universe in the palm of His hand, the God who knows the name of every single person who lives on this earth--who has ever lived on this earth, but do I act like it? Do I think that way? Do I pray that way? Do I talk that way? How big is my God?