Endless Ocean

Endless Ocean

by Jonathan David Helser

Our God really is like an endless ocean and bottomless sea.  There is always more of Him.  There is always more to learn, more ways to grow, more ways to experience His love.

The Lord gives us endless possibilities and options.

Because He is endless it means our dreams can be endless.

The impossible can be done.

Regurgitated Thoughts

At a time I don't remember and by a person I cannot recall, I heard insightful words eerily similar to these-

It is easy to believe God is good.  It is hard to see how God is good in your own life.

It is so much easier for me to see the goodness God has done in someone else's life.  Sometimes I even look at a subject receiving goodness and wonder why they aren't shouting praise to the Lord at that very moment.

And then I realize I am looking a mirror.  I am the subject receiving the goodness, yet I fail to recognize it.  I have become blind to God moving in my own life.  As much as I wish I could say I was the only person suffering from this ailment, I have become quite certain that I am not.

I have several theories as to why I might have become unable to see His goodness in my own life; most of my theories revolve around either pride or insecurity (which in-and-of itself might be pride- who am I to think I am anything beside who the Lord says that I am?)

Regardless of the cause, this is something I have been convicted of lately, and something I am trying to pray through.  I need a shift in thinking (is that a term?) and several head-smacks, I am sure.

As long as there is no time like the present, then today I see the goodness God has given to me in His using me to speak life into my friends.

That is a start. :)

The Thankful Game

  This is the thankful game.  If anyone has taken part in a trip with Adventures in Missions, you have probably played the thankful game at some point in time.  It's when you don't want to be thankful or you feel like you have nothing to be thankful for, but you thank God anyway because He is good!  Since I really need to be thankful right now (and don't feel like I have much to be thankful for), I am going to scream on the internet until I lose my internet voice.

Thank you papa for two jobs

thank you for making me able to pay my bills

thank you for having a plan for me

thank you for knowing my heart's desire

thank you for wanting to give me my heart's desire

thank you for knowing what is best for me

thank you for building a community around me

thank you for the Holy Spirit

and for Holy Spirit worship

thank you for loving me regardless of what I do

or what I don't do

or how I feel about my own self

or how I don't feel about my own self

thank you for not letting me have malaria again

thank you for giving me time to rest

thank you for new tires for my car

thank you not letting my old tires blow up

thank you for not letting me get in car accidents

thank you that you are still molding me into a more wonderful woman of You

thank you that you give me new determination every day

thank you that you are teaching me what beauty is

thank you for the unconditional-ity of your grace

thank you for speaking to me

thank you for guiding me

thank you for never having hurt me

thank you for your promises

thank you for your faithfulness

thank you for your own desire in chasing after my heart

thank you for restlessness

thank you for the desires you place in my heart

thank you for your sacrifice

thank you for never giving up

thank you for being a warrior

thank you for not letting me be defeated

thank you for setting me apart

thank you for making me in your likeness

thank you for technology

thank you for books

thank you for music

and harmonies

and dissonance

thank you for putting songs on the radio that we need to hear when we need to hear them

The list could (and should) keep going on forever.  Maybe I'll play the thankful game via blog again a later.