He is EVERYTHING!

I went for an awesome, awe inspiring, walk through the horse trails near my parents house a midst a mild early monsoon rain. It was a sweet time of prayer and praise of our awesome God. Who holds the following qualities among many others : Creator of everything, His very power holds the world together, without it we would disintegrate into nothingness, lover of our souls, comforter, husband, head of all earthly principalities, etc....

Considering these qualities God is MORE than sufficient and powerful to satisfy me and conquer any situation which I may come across according to His will.

I do not really have a point. I just know that in Christ, the living water (John 4:14), I am satisfied in ways which I have not experienced in any other place.

Enjoying looking to Him and being satisfied. God is good. God is satisfying. God is doing a new thing. God works all things for good. God works in us that we may truly be like Christ!

Oh how I long to be truly selfless and loving as Christ was. I can not do this. Only God can do this work in me. Regardless of the intensity of my desire to be like Him I can not achieve these goals and even if I do I am glorified and God is not. May God be glorified in my life! May he do the work! May His promises be proven true!

I leave you with the following verses which did business on me earlier today:

2 Corinthians 1:19-22
^"19For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we proclaimed among you, Silvanus and Timothy and I, was not Yes and No, but in him it is always Yes. ²⁰For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why it is through him that we utter our Amen to God for his glory. ²¹And it is God who establishes us with you in Christ, and has anointed us, ²²and who has also put his seal on us and given us his Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee."

Numbers 23:19
"God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?"

You can draw your own conclusions on the combo of verses or ask me my thoughts.

The Men of Emotion

Four examples of men who were emotional and who made no attempt to hide it.

Jesus
John 11:33,35
"Therefore, when Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her weeping, He groaned in the spirit and was troubled. [ ] Jesus wept."

David
2 Samuel 12:16-17
"David therefore pleaded with God for the child, and David fasted and went in and lay all night on the ground. So the elders of his house arose and went to him, to raise him up from the ground. But he would not, nor did he eat food with them."

Jeremiah
Lamentations 2:11
"My eyes fail with tears, My heart is troubled; My bile is poured on the ground Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, Because the children and the infants Faint in the streets of the city."

Even the psalmist
Psalm 42:3
"My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually say to me, "Where is your God?" "

I have not been one of these men. God has produced in me these emotions which historically I would have hardened my heart too, falsely believing that if my relationship with Christ was solid I could not be sad or depressed. This idea could not be farther from the truth as demonstrated by The Christ Himself and these other men of God.

I am called to have compassion upon people, but I can not have true compassion if I do not "feel."It is merely a product of my actions. God examines the heart. Christ felt for those weeping on behalf of Lazarus' death. It hit Him to the core. So am I called to be, but it must be the triune God doing the work in me. I may not seize it, can not act it out. If it is through suffering that this piece of God is created in me, let it be done. For "It is good that one should hope and wait quietly For the salvation of the LORD" because "There may yet be hope." (Lamentations 3:26,29) It is for this hope, for this salvation and piece of God, that I endure suffering. "For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us." (Romans 8:18) The bits of God which I have tasted have proven the previous statement to be exceedingly true!