All Things

I can do all things through Christ, who gives me strength.

All things, if I really lived like I believe I can do all things my life would look a whole lot different.

I would start running, no matter what the weather was like.
I would stop choosing food over God, no matter how loud that little voice got inside my head.
I would stop getting so angry at my kids and husband and start realizing they make mistakes too.
I would reject that very ugly piece of my heart God has been showing me latley and start filling that hole up with Him, and Him alone.

All things...God's not exagerating here...we really can do all things through Christ who gives us strength. And it's not a hee-man brute strength we're talking about...it's an inner strength that rises up when you're at your weakest saying GO My Child, because I AM inside of you.

What things can you do because Jesus gives you strength?

Continuing with my list, today I'm thankful for

11) Quiet time with my Father, He wakes me up no matter if I go back to sleep after my alarm or not, He knows I need that time with Him and did you know He enjoys our quiet times too...He loves hanging out with His children, do you have daily quiet time's with Him?
12) Baby smiles and even a few giggles from my almost 3 month old nephew
13) Being used daily by an almighty God who doesn't have to use me but wants to use me
14) Work for my husband for today
15) Learning to focus on one day at a time and thanking God for the blessings of the day
16) The inner strength God's word gives me every day to say NO to my flesh ~ even though I mess it up ~ His grace is perfect in my weakness
17) Family dinners, and a lesson in each from God
18) My kids and their prayers before each meal "Thank You Jesus for this food" and their passion to pray on their own
19) A husband that forgives me for my attitude daily
20) Doing hair and nails and playing dress-up and baby dolls with my 3 year old daughter ~ and learning a lesson from God about her heart
21) Having my eyes open to the sunrise when I choose the better option
22) A new Bible Study in Ephesians that I'm learning SOOOOOO much from

Throw off your old sinful ways and former way of life which is corrupted by lust and deception.

Let the Spirit renew your thoughts and attitudes. Eph 4:27,28

An Unknown God?

I see that in every way, you are very religious. For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship I even found an altar with this description "To an Unknown God". Now what you worship as something unknown I'm going to proclaim to you.

Paul was addressing a crowd in Athens. Their city was so full of idols, but they worshipped God too. They just didn't know it was God. This can be said of my life too. There are idols that need torn down even while I'm worshipping God I don't fully know Him yet. There's still so much to learn. It's never God's faithfulness that needs work..it's always, always mine.

The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of Heaven and earth, and does not live in temples built by hands. And He is not served by human hands, as if He needed anything, because He Himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. From one man He made every nation of men, that they should inahbit the whole earth; and He determined the times set for them and exact places they should live.

Why would He do this?

God did this so that man would seek Him and perhaps reach out for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of  us. For in Him, we live and move and have our being. As some of your own poets of said, we are His offspring.

Therefore, since we are God's offspring, we should not think the devine being is like gold or silver or stone-an image made by man's design and skii. In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now He commands all people, everywhere to repent. For He has set a day when He will judge the world with justice by the man He has appointed. He has given proof of this to all men by raising Him from the dead.

Acts 17:22-31

He's not unknown anymore. He has made Himself known to us. He gave us His son so we can have freedom. He doesn't want to remain unknown, He wants us to know Him fully and experience Him with our whole heart.