This is my first time I have ever had a blog and my first entry. So I suppose I am telling myself welcome to the blogging world and hello to all of you out there! I hope that I can use this blog to glorify my Heavenly Father by writing about what the Lord is teaching me and what I perceive from His holy and living Word. About 5 or so years ago at a church youth camp during the summer the Lord revealed to me my life verse (which is by the way, something in the Bible that connects with you personally and encourages you in the faith)...ok so it's more like a passage, but it's found in 1 Corinthians 1:26-29.
"For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called. But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty, and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, that no flesh should glory in His presence."
God used this passage to reveal to me many things over the course of my life as of yet. At first it encouraged me, because I did not consider myself to have that good of a past and I always looked at all these people who seemed to have it all and thinking just with how messed up I am that the Lord could never use me. Oh but when I saw this, my eyes were opened and I was blind no more. I was able to see that the Lord called for people like me. Someone who is made to nothing so that they can broadcast that God is everything! This is my calling-not to be wise in the world's eyes or chase after wordly possesions or knowledge-but to come to the point where I realize I am nothing but a fool without Christ and even all my foolish behaviors, my wicked words, and my flaming sinful flesh God can turn around for His glory and use even me for the furtherance of His kingdom.
Over time I also realized how this passage showed me that God brings me to a place of brokenness and realizing that "having it all" in the world's standards is to gain nothing at all in the light of eternity. I am called and chosen by Him, even though I am weak and despised and foolish. Furthermore, I am called for this purpose to share the light of the gospel to the world not that my flesh should glory in His presence, but that He gets all the glory! To God alone be the glory, for He is the only One who deserves it.
Our one sole purpose in life is to live our lives a pleasing sacrifice to further His kingdom (Romans 12:1) and in everything we say and do to glorify God. ( 1 Corinthians 6:20 & 1 Corinthians 10:31).
"For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called. But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty, and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, that no flesh should glory in His presence."
God used this passage to reveal to me many things over the course of my life as of yet. At first it encouraged me, because I did not consider myself to have that good of a past and I always looked at all these people who seemed to have it all and thinking just with how messed up I am that the Lord could never use me. Oh but when I saw this, my eyes were opened and I was blind no more. I was able to see that the Lord called for people like me. Someone who is made to nothing so that they can broadcast that God is everything! This is my calling-not to be wise in the world's eyes or chase after wordly possesions or knowledge-but to come to the point where I realize I am nothing but a fool without Christ and even all my foolish behaviors, my wicked words, and my flaming sinful flesh God can turn around for His glory and use even me for the furtherance of His kingdom.
Over time I also realized how this passage showed me that God brings me to a place of brokenness and realizing that "having it all" in the world's standards is to gain nothing at all in the light of eternity. I am called and chosen by Him, even though I am weak and despised and foolish. Furthermore, I am called for this purpose to share the light of the gospel to the world not that my flesh should glory in His presence, but that He gets all the glory! To God alone be the glory, for He is the only One who deserves it.
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