Thursday, September 28, 2006

My life is changing...praise God!

Wow!

It has been awhile since I last posted anything. I feel as though my life has completely changed since I last wrote. God has been working in my life ( in my life and Tara's life ). God is always working... but over the last couple months I am realizing that God is changing my desires and my passions. He is making me into the person that I am supposed to be. I am still a far cry from where I need to be and I am humbled because of that fact. However, I am delighted and overflowing with joy because the God who is sovereign over the universe has the unfathomable love to work in my heart and transform me to the image of His Son... praise be to God!

The biggest and greatest thing that has happened recently is the humbling and incredible reality that I am going to be a dad! God has blessed Tara and I with a child and I can honestly say that I have already fallen deep in love with this person. I would gladly give my life for my son or daughter. I am praying for his or her salvation and for mine and Tara's perseverance to live as godly examples to this child and raise him or her in the ways of the Lord.

This change in my life has forced me to my knees! My knees... in prayer... a place that I should have been since I first confessed Jesus Christ as my Savior. Sorrowfully, I look back on my immaturity in my relationship with God and see a Christian with sin in his life and with no progress to be noted.

That humbling and regretful state of facts has pierced my conscience and my heart with a deep motivation to know God more and find all of my strength and reason for living in Him and Him alone!

For anyone who might read this posting, my prayer is that you would do the same. Pray as long as you possibly can and as often as you possibly can. I have not perfected prayer and I won't on this side of eternity. But pursuing prayer and reliance on God (which is what prayer really is) is a worthwhile pursuit... one worth fighting for! One worth dying for!

How can God work in us and be glorified in us if we do not know Him? If we do not rely on Him? If we do not delight in Him?

If there is one thing that I am learning... it is how important and vital for me as a child of God to delight in God and to be most satisfied with Him and to desire to bring glory to Him in everything that I do!

Praise God for His undeserved grace that He has bestowed on us! Let us delight in glorifying Him!