God's love

God's love is a beautiful thing.

There is one very big truth about Gods love that I want to share with you today. One that I have forgotten for far to long, one the my Saviour has been telling me to open my eyes to lately.

Love is a choice!

Did God have oshy moshy feelings for us?

No!

He chose to love us!

He chose to send His son to die for us. 

Even as Jesus begged His Father to take this cup if bitterness from Him as He wept in the garden before His death. He choose to love us. Love those disciples who slept during His greatest hour of need. He could have gone...

Forget it!

You sleep when I need you?

You think I will still have feelings when you don't even care?

What's the point of dying for someone who doesn't even care!

Yet NO!

He died because love isn't a mushy feeling. It's an act of the will.

As one beautifully put it...

Biblical love is the act of the will

Accompanied by emotion

That leads to action on behalf of its object!

In an act of the will Jesus died for us.

PRAISE THE LORD...

THAT GOD CHOOSE TO LOVE US!

We think of the times of when it says in the Bible

 "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.

Matthew 22:37b

We say, see it says heart. 

Yes that is what it says in English, yet in Hebrew the word heart roughly means will.

The heart is just an organ it has no feeling. The will on the other hand is something we control.

So let us as, we continue through this life remember that love is a choice.

Like the way God choose to love us dispite our sinfullness 

How our parents love us, even when we drive them mad.

The way a couple choose to love the child they adopted even when they fight back.

The way a little child tends their worms in the jar on the porch.

Let us choose to love!

Peace and praise!

I lie in peace

For my Saviour lives

I live because of him

I have life 

For He died for me

He rose for me

I praise Him with my heart

I love His guiding hand

The way I know

He's always near

Holding me so close

Reminding me He cares

Never leaving me

Loving me in spite 

In spite of all my sin

My praise O Lord

Is far less than it should be

Yet you love me still

I lie here

My heart going up to you

For you are with me

I cry at the thought

I don't deserve you

Yet you never leave

You bless me far beyond words

Your love it's what holds me

Holds me here

From falling into Satan's lair

Your love is unimaginable

I can't comprehend it

Yet I feel it Lord

Your arms I feel

Your guidance on my life

I don't know how to thank you

My human being is to small

To thank a God like you

Hold me close my Lord

All my life through

I know you will be there

Through good days and bad

I look till the day

When in glory

We will meet

So I can paise you fully

For your great love to me

I love you Abba!

JH

26-4-16

Our God is so great!

Nothing we do for Him compares to His gift of life to us. We are so small yet He cares for us still. We are undeserving of His gift to us. 

All we deserve is Hell, yet our God chose to love us in spite of our sin.

I can't comprehend this!

I am to small compared to Him

Yet we are loved!

A truth that makes me bow down at my God's feet.

You want to watch YouTube!

Today I am giving you the perfect opportunity to watch YouTube!

Now stop giving me that face!

 I know the title sounds really lame, but it's not at all.

Yes you may expect a 45 min talk on marriage to be totally irrelevant and boring. Yet this one is not. Designed for singles and hilariously put. With some seriously good points that make you really ponder.

(I can't ruin it for you, but I will tell you it had the whole youth group in stitches)

So pretty please! Watch it!

Sleepiness and YouTube

At the moment I am suffering post YouTube sickness.

Your proberly going, what on earth!

Well here's my story of the morning....

My dreaded alarm goes of at 6:40 because on I call you could say, to relieve in daycares. So I end up turning my volume up and dosing till eight when I get up and leave my phone for three short minutes. In these short minutes I miss a phone call and by the time I ring them back they found somebody else to do the job. Quite sad for I am really bored of having no work. 

So I go get ready for the day, cheak my emails...all boring, answer my messages...the besti went crazy on sent me a billion while I was being a good girl staying of the internet all Sunday. Then I decided to watch some YouTube. So I spend the next 30 minutes watching vblogs that are funny, yet terribly recorded and they can't hold the camera still. 

Now for me when I watch such bouncy things when I am really tired it gives me motion sickness. 

Yes you may laugh!

But it's very true as I now sit here feeling like I just went up 30 stories on a really really fast lift when I was half asleep.

I suppose it's all my own fault as I should have been doing something useful and not started texting at like 10ish last night. I have really no self control when it comes to watching YouTube, going to sleep or texting.

(I bet you are all sitting reading this thinking I thought you were an angel, well I'm not sadly😜)

Now I have most likely borred you to bits and made you think if that video you were going to watch on YouTube. 

Right now you are heading over to your YouTube app while I'm sobbing here because I feel sick from watching people who can't record at all!

NO! DONT TELL ME ITS MY FAULT!

Goes if crying..........

Okay I will stop.

Hey you have to watch my next post (when I get it up) I promise that it's way better than this....its halious!

The body of Christ

We are a body

A body in Christ

One that's full of aliments 

 Becoming riddled with strife

Pain it is causing

Like the pain of a cancer

A leg is going one way

An arm another

Nothing moves as one

We are failing at being a body

Disunity is among us

We can't work like this

Yet we continue

To work against each other

If we are the body

Why aren't we working as one?

When we'd rather cut each other up

Tearing limbs of

Ignoring others

Holding some above the rest

A body should be one

Unity should abound

Let us forgive like the head

Our precious Saviour does

Let us strive to work together

With the Spirit's help

Holding each among us

To the same value as another

Let us unite as one

Let us face the devil

Walk together

Fight the fight

Spread the good news

To bring peace

To give joy

Encourage

Strengthen

Comfort

To be Christ to all

Whether big or small

Let us be the body

The body of Christ

JH

13-4-16

12 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves[d] or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.

14 For the body does not consist of one member but of many. 15 If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.16 And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. 17 If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell? 18 But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. 19 If all were a single member, where would the body be? 20 As it is, there are many parts,[e] yet one body.

21 The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” 22 On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, 23 and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty, 24 which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it, 25 that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. 26 If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.

27 Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. 28 And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing,helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues. 29 Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? 30 Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret? 31 But earnestly desire the higher gifts.

And I will show you a still more excellent way.

1 Corinthians 12:12-31

Hospital fealings

Coridors empty

Yet footsteps heard

Secrets whispered

Yet privacy lost

Pain driping from walls

Moans that echo

Giving shivers all around

Help needed

Received after minutes tick by

Lonelyness abounds

The acke for love

The need for hugs

Calming words

Holding hands 

Tears wiped

Smiles given

Laughter to abound

As memories are shared

The presence of new life

That gets forgotten by the stillness

The constant wispers

The death that threatens

The smell

The faces

Domb is destined

All around it seems

Yet lets remember

Life is in these walls

In everybody that breaths

JH

24-3-16

For me hospitals have always felt like doom. Whenever I spend time there it's hard to remember at times that, there is life in these walls.

These feelings have come closer in the past week as my Oma spent time there. Her time there was a very deap reminder that death is just round the corner, especially for her. Our days are all numbered. Perfectly for each one of us by our precious Lord.

Walk by Faith

I want to walk by faith

Not a lifetime of sight

I want to trust you fully

Because Lord you're always right

May I make my decisions

By faith not by sight

Help me trust you

More each day and night

May I trust you fully

With the big things and the small

Knowing that you love me

Sinful though I be

I know O Lord

That faith is best

Yet sight!

Gives so much light

Who wants to walk a dark road

When you can walk by light

I O Lord can't!

For light is just not right

So give me your Spirit

That I may walk aright

Not by my strength my King

But in you! I will walk aright

JH

27-3-16

As we grow older we loss our child like trust. Faith grows harder for our trust in everything weakens as we experience the futility of life. 

Through these last few weeks just with turning 18 I have sat here starting to wish that I could see all my dreams come true. I'm eighteen, life has started hasn't it? Why I'm I still sitting here with hundreds (it feels that many) dreams unanswered.
Trust hasn't been easy yet my God understands that I am a human-sinful. 
I have been blessed to have my precious Saviour tell me in different ways that He's got it all under control.
I pray that with sharing these words that He has used to strengthen me, you to may be strengthened.