I can't help but wonder how many times I will repeat the same mistakes in my life over and over before I finally step and make a change. I'm so tired of running away from what I truly need and ruining anything good in life out of fear..
I have spent most of my "adult" life in and out of church, not because I stopped believing but because I honestly didn't feel like I belonged. I have made more than my fair share of mistakes and I can't keep a fake persona on all the time. I'm me and I never felt like anyone in church would accept me as me...
This morning in church I heard something that struck me as quite literally amazing... Terry Law said...
"It amazes me that the bible is full of so many spiritual failures. The story of Christ and his love is not about perfect people- It's about the grace of God transforming broken lives."
He spoke this morning on having hope... Which is something I have definitely been living without. It gets to be pretty lonely and you will quickly see just how much you are willing to do just to be happy, even temporarily. He talked about how people don't appreciate the idea of hope because it is used so nonchalantly in the world today. We use it almost interchangeably with "wish" but God wants us to think of hope as a confident expectation of the goodness of God.
I officially learned that I most relate to Peter in the bible... He was a one crazy guy. He for reals messed up ALL the time. He lost faith in on the boat, he cut off some guys ear, he denied God while he was dying... I mean the guy had great intentions but he just failed... epically!
I feel like I have hope now... It may not be alot but it's there and that's a really refreshing feeling after all this time. What I want to do from here is to continue to build on this new found hope and also attempt to plant hope into the people around me!
We are all too often put down and chastised and made fun of but how many times do we take the time to build our friends up and love them and show them hope! I want to speak life into my friends and family... Too often we hear the negative... What is wrong with us, What we always do wrong, etc. So I am going to take this newfound hope and start planting it in others... I'm going to say I love you far too much and build my friends up and make sure that everyone around me knows exactly what I love about them!!
Speak Life. <3<3
Just Meags
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