I've been wanting to start blogging again here recently but every time I go to blog, my mind just goes blank and I don't know what I feel like talking about. But today is the day I will blog! :)

This morning I was listening to Polen band(for those who don't know, they are a local worship band, my friends, and well they are just great!) Anyways I was listening to their one song called Labels and the one line really stuck out to me today. It said "Don't be afraid cuz our mistakes can't forever label us....forgiven and free..." Even if our mistakes were to label us for our entire life, that's not forever...and that is quite a freeing thought. Our lives here are short, like a vapor. We must learn and grow from our mistakes, and then move on. 

Lately I have been realizing how many labels i really do put on myself and believe others have put on me as well. And I feel like I have all these expectations on me and if i mess up then people will stop loving me as much or something. I don't know. But the Lord has really been revealing all of this to me. I think I have been cheapening grace and without realizing it, thinking that it all depends on my works. read Eph. 2:8-10 recently and it just blew me away. I always knew verses 8-9 together, and then verse 10 but for some reason I never connected them. It is by grace, not works that we are saved, but yet we were created in Jesus to do good works. 

Not saved by them, but created to do them.

And all of this so that we may only boast in Jesus name..not our own...so beautiful.

I've been finding so many verses recently about how its not about what I do but what Christ has already done and the grace he extends to me. 

"Walking in the light does not mean sinlessness. It means seeing our sin, confessing, and fighting it as forgiven.(based on 1 John 1:7-9)" - John Piper(been following him on twitter and I think its from the Lord because sometimes he tells me exactly what I need to hear)

I've been reading Shadow of the Almighty: Life and Testimony of Jim Elliot recently...good book.

"'In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength.' I think the devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. If he can keep us hearing radios, gossip, conversation, or even sermons, he is happy. But he will not allow quietness. For he believes Isaiah where we do not. Satan is quite aware of the power of silence. The voice of God, though persistent, is soft..."

When was the last time you sat in silence with the Creator of the Universe?