My flesh may fail, but Your Spirit's strong in me.

Give me faith
to trust what You say
that You're good
and Your love is great

God's perfect love casts out all fear.
What a wondrous gift He's bestowed to me!

Days are good and life is good.
I get a satisfaction I can't describe from knowing my God is alive
(living on the inside- roaring like a lion!)

It was also great to realize that the Bible literally says "No one has seen God"
so it's of no trouble to me to realize that I struggle with everyone else who wants to see Him.
But if we were to literally see The LORD with our eyeballs, we'd definitely go blind. Or berserk.

Or fall on our knees in overwhelming adoration.
Something the speaker said tonight that I really liked was bringing 1 John 4 back to Adam in the garden.
He couldn't see God because he was afraid of Him.

Not the reverent kind of fear but the "dear God what have I done now" type.

I feel like that all the time. I wonder why I get caught up in the things that I do. I wonder how inadequate I appear when juxtaposed to the expectations I set for myself. I feel like I set myself up to be a laughing stock and that God will be the most disappointed-

-but these feelings are to be rebuked because I am going to follow Christ's example and step out to love them where they are. To love them in their space.
My God MOVED. He descended into hell and then ascended into Heaven to see my heart move yours! There's such a wonderful logic in witnessing a love in this imperfect world as the most beautiful of testimonies to God's hands and feet caressing His creation.

I really can't stop marveling at the love of God. Renew in me, and all my cherished family in Christ, the joy of thy salvation.

Salvation = promised eternity with God, which means I should be able to stand before God in delight and not out of fear = my heart can fully embrace His perfect love without fear = I have become someone whose heart has no room for doubt or grudge or pain = what I desire with everything to have.

Spending an eternity with Jesus (and having the heart to withstand absorb all the holiness emanating from Him @_@) is just - wow. I've been reduced to a wordless bumbling fool in love with Christ, my Savior.