"This truth means that every closet of our lives needs to be opened for cleaning, and every relationship in our lives must be influenced. This call to love God this way destroys any option of being one person at church and another person on a date. What you do on the internet needs to be just as pure as what you do in Bible-reading. The way we talk to our parents needs to be as wholesome as the way we talk to our pastors. There needs to be an authentic love for God that starts with God-oriented affections, desires, and thoughts, that permeates our speaking and behavior, and then influences the way we spend our money and how we dress, and drive, and our forms of entertainment.

Whether we’re eating or singing, jogging or blogging, texting or drawing, love for Yahweh — the one true triune God — is to be in action and seen."

-Jason DeRouchie on loving God

today i left the art examination hall feeling absolutely crappy but bused home swelling with joy- it still bewilders me to know how real God is and how alive He is in all my prayers and circumstances. i think this is what it really means to be a child of God- the essence of our Christian walk is not that we are perfect, but that we serve a perfect God; it's not that we are rid of trials and tribulations, but that we have a Comforter; it's not that we are blameless, sinless people who are good tempered, mild or rigidly religious, but that we have a God who cleanses us through and through, who wipes the dirt away and sends us out again, clean, fresh, whole.

i admit that i'm still learning- we all are, really- and sometimes it's the tough bits of life that teach me dependency on Jesus- how to run towards Him in the midst of a storm in life instead of panicking through it and looking around for help. My help comes from Him alone; And through Him, so are all things. i don't think i've been more satisfied with how life is panning out in the palm of His Hands.

"when i was told by Jesus all was well/ So all must be well"