My Place In This World

"Not a lot to lean on
I need Your light to help me find
My place in this world"

I wanted to be a knight and live in a castle. Then I found out I was born a few thousand years late.

I wanted to be a pro baseball player. Then I found out it was a long shot.

I wanted to be a lot of things. Then I found God.

You would not believe if you were told!

Look among the nations! Observe! Be astonished! Wonder! Because I am doing something in your days--You would not believe if you were told. - Habakkuk 1:5

Take time to stop and smell the roses. I could not even tell you the last time I remember SEEING roses, let alone taking the time to stop what I was doing to smell them.

An abundance of proverbs and words of wisdom exist, such as the one of the tortoise and the hare--all of which tells us to slow down and not let life move too fast.

Love's Done Something

Don't let your happenings destroy your happiness.

There is something so amazing about this quote that has kept it floating around in the back of my mind for the last week. I couldn't understand how it was convicting and inspiring to me at the same time. Today it hit me.

When I came back to my room after playing basketball this morning I knew something was up. There was something I had been missing that God was trying to call my attention to. I just could not figure out what it was.

Love Wins, Love Remains...Love Never Fails.

Love never fails.

Nothing can overcome love, not the strongest loathing and hatred imaginable can put a finger near love. It cannot be overcome.

To put in perspective the power of love, 1 Corinthians 13 says, "But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love."

Now just how powerful does that make love? We find in Luke 17 that if we have faith the size of a mustard seed we can tell a tree to be uprooted and plated in the sea, and it will obey. That is some mad power.