How about this: If as a Christian you knew Jesus was coming back at 2:00 am in the morning, you’d prepare and make sure nothing interferes with your awareness of Him.

Live your life this way. Keep your lamps burning and make it your priority because He will come when you least expect, as a theif in the night, and everyone unaware will become aware.

I feel like God is pulling me to do so much more

And if I can get out of my own head

And out of my own way

I can allow Him to use me in ways I cannot even imagine

ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYSSS!!!!

So happy I’ve found you Lord 💗

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Lord, what ever it is I desire, may I desire you more.

What ever it is I seek, may I seek you more.

What ever it is I love, may I love you more.

Be more to me than anything else in this world.

— Unknown

— Cory Asbury (via breanna-lynn)

Amen!

I think the thing that amazes me the most about God is how He understands us. All of our emotions. Everything we might ever go through. He understands it all.

When I was little, I thought that no one understood me. I was born with a heart defect, and it took until I was in high school for me to meet anyone else my age with a heart defect. I was convinced that no one would ever be able to understand the things that I was going through. The kind of fear and anxiety that came from a heart that doesn’t quite work right. I was convinced that this extended to God. I told myself that He couldn’t possibly understand it because He was so mighty and powerful. It was just my small mind unable to take the issues that I was facing.

Then, a few months ago, I saw the post about the anatomical and physiological details of crucifixion, something that immediately interested me because of my interest in becoming a doctor. 

I didn’t expect to read the little detail of how Jesus had developed tachycardia while on the cross. I didn’t expect to read the little detail of how the cause of Jesus’s death was likely cardiac rupture. That His heart had likely literally exploded while on the cross. 

My King. My Savior. My God. Terrified and in excruciating pain. Dealing with the same kinds of fears that I was convinced no one would ever understand. My God hanging on a cross, humiliated and dying, experiencing the anxieties and fears of a heart that simply won’t work quite right. My God who loved me so much that He became flesh and blood just like me so that He could not only save me but also understand me and experience the world the way I eventually would. 

Sure, not everyone will relate to the heart aspect of this, but on this Good Friday, allow me to tell you that God understands you. Whether your fears are physical ones like mine, or your temptations get the better of you, God understands you. He was tempted. He wept. He was in pain. He was afraid. He was exhausted. He had emotions. He felt and experienced the world the way you and I have. He knows what it feels like to be made of flesh and blood. And He loves you. He loves you so much that He gave Himself for you. Jesus, our King, our God, our Savior. His love for you literally exploded His heart. His love for you kept Him on that cross. He was powerful enough to have kept Himself off or gotten down, but He stayed on that cross because He loved you and knew He needed to say, “It is finished.”

So powerful😢💗

Giulia Bernardelli | @bernulia

Don’t let the guilt of your sin keep you from going to church today! Satan doesn’t want us to seek help, be redeemed, ask for repentance, feel clean again… but Jesus does. Jesus died for this very reason. He is our God and Father who wants His children to always run back to Him, no matter what stings us.

Amen🙏🏼

you won’t always wake up in the mornings with such a heavy heart, I promise.

Amen

“His pursuit is greater than your ability to wander.”

Charles Stanley (via risinghopeandstrength)

Amen.

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