monday

 

 Hi! It's me again :) Happy Valentines Day!

"For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will hardly die for a righteous man; though perhaps for the good man someone would dare even to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." (Romans 5:8)

"Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends." (John 15:13)

* I was encouraged by this statement this morning while reading the Autobiography of George Muller:

"The faith that I am able to exercise is God's own gift. He alone supports it, and He alone can increase it. Moment by moment, I depend on Him. If I were left to myself, my faith would utterly fail."

* I listened to this sermon this morning; It was very encouraging, but also challenging as Pastor John spoke on treasuring the Word of God more than any other reading material or media, as God is the ultimate authority on any subject and in Him is all wisdom. "For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men." (1 Corinthians 1:25)

" God understands you better than anyone else. He knows how people get to be the way they are and how they are effected by their surroundings. God understands society and groups perfectly. God knows all facts about how the world works. God knows the future and how everything will come out in the end. God is wiser than any wise writer. God is more caring than any counselor. God is more creative than any poet or artist. It simply stands to reason that what God says will be more useful to us than what anyone else in the universe has to say. Not to sit at his feet and soak our minds with his wisdom is sheer craziness if not suicidal." - John Piper

"All day long unreality is being preached to you by the secular voices of the land.
God is the Essential Reality. Everything disconnected from God is unreal in the way it was meant to function. Therefore a world without God (our world!) is mainly an unreal world. Dazzling darkness. Dazzling, dizzying, deadly darkness" - John Piper

* Going to try my hand at making this scrumptious looking bread this afternoon.

Photo courtesy of: Patent and the Pantry

Lately I've lacked motivation to do pretty much anything. After all the preparation for my brother's wedding (read- staying up till 4 or 5 o'clock in the morning for multiple days to finish sewing projects for the event) I seem to fallen into a state of lethargy. It's kind of frustrating, though, because I want to be busy and I want to be productive during the week, but I feel like I just can't shake the inertia and get moving. It's hard to explain, but that's the best way I can put it. :) 

So, this week I'm purposing to get things done and have set myself a "to-do" list for today that I'll hopefully be able cross everything off of.  I know that God is the one works in me, "both to will and to work for his good pleasure" (Philippians 2:13), so I'm counting on His ability and strength to get through the day, as I know it's not His desire for me to be a torpid Christian.