Here we are again Love, Here we go again.

By your side, I can’t pretend anymore, everything starts where it ends. Change starts with me. More specifically it starts with my heart, and a desire to really truly be molded. Do I honestly want to change? Do I have enough in me to with stand hardship and temptation? Do I have the endurance, strength, and discipline? I do not know. What I do know, or should I say who I do know, is a God who will compensate for what I lack in. Where I am weak, He is strong. If my heart is not in the right place, if I don’t desire to pursue a holy life, then it is only an empty attempt in which the results will be deeply shallow; surface results, temporary solutions. The effects of that will be more hardship, more pain, and more anxiety.

Romans 6:1-2 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it?

Galations 5: 1 It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.

We are so undeserving of God’s grace, but that is the beauty of it. The fact that I am so undeserving of His sacrifice, and that He literally despises my actions and the continuation of them, yet still has love enough to redeem me and make me whole again, should cause me to worship. It should cause me to truly worship. True worship is more than a song, more than a statement, or a single action. Worship is shown through how we live our lives; it’s a lifestyle. Being caused to worship means we were stirred to change. It means something has woken within our hearts and we desire to live a life in love and obedience out of respect and gratefulness for our creator & redeemer. This is where we will find the results that last, inside of a love that lasts. 1 John 1:7 but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another , and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.

In a book Max Lucado once wrote he said this, " They have not seen Him, they do not know Him, but they know His child, so they know His heart." That is my desire. For people to know God’s heart, through me, not in a prideful perfect kind of way, but an honest pursuit of who God made us to be; a reflection of Christ.

Do you feel what i feel?

Our heart is slowing down

No one will love what you love to defend

It all will start where it ends