Thirsty?

Psalm 42:1-2

As the deer pants for streams of water,

so my soul pants for you, O God.
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.

When can I go and meet with God?

Revelation 21:6

"It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega,

the Beginning and the End.

To him who is thirsty I will give to drink

without cost from the spring of the water of life.

Matthew 5:6

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,

for they will be filled.

Psalm 63:1-6

Psalm 63
O God, you are my God,

earnestly I seek you;

my soul thirsts for you,

my body longs for you,

in a dry and weary land

where there is no water.
I have seen you in the sanctuary

and beheld your power and your glory.
Because your love is better than life,

my lips will glorify you.
I will praise you as long as I live,

and in your name I will lift up my hands.
My soul will be satisfied as with the richest of foods;

with singing lips my mouth will praise you.
On my bed I remember you;

I think of you through the watches of the night.

Love

Because today is valentines day I thought I would blog about love. Specifically about love languages. I recently read The Love Languages of God by Gary Chapman. In this book he describes five love languages that God speaks: Words of Affirmation, Quality Time, Gifts, Acts of Service, and Physical Touch. While reading this book I discovered that my primary love language is Physical Touch. There is nothing that is more wonderful to me than being in the presence of God where I can feel His touch. This helped me to understand why I am so moved to raise my hands, dance, sway, and just move physically during musical worship. It is my way of expressing back to God, in my primary love language, my love for Him. When I raise my hands in worship my heart is saying what Romans 12:1 states. Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship. At other times I raise my hands in agreement with the words of the song, while singing "I am free" my heart is giving God thanks for all the freedom He has given me. At other times I reach up to ask my Father to pick me up and comfort me when I am down. I know that expressing your love for God physically is very uncomfortable for some of you. But each of you have a primary love language and we all tend to express our love in our primary language. Think about what your primary love language might be and how you can express your love back to God.
Happy Valentines Day!

Focus

Do you ever have times is your life where you can only focus on what is right in front of you?
I have had a season recently where all I could see was the junk right in front of me. The picture above is my view from my bedroom window. All I can see is the neighbors shed, wood pile, camper, boat and van. This is not the best view in the world. Anyone who really knows me, would say that I am a neat freak. I like things super tidy. I clean off the top of my desk every day before I go home. Everything goes into the proper file and my to do list is ready for the next day. I am just overly organized by nature. So there are times when I can't seem to get my mind off of the junk (life issues) that are right in front of me.

But I am learning to look beyond what is right in front of me and I am working on getting my eyes fixed on Jesus.

Hebrews 12:2 2 Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

When my eyes are fixed on him the junk in front me does not bother me so much.