Things of Symbolism & Importance...

There are those times in a person's life where they truly recongnize what is valuable to them and what makes them cringe inside. Today, I thought I had made a major break through just by telling my family that I was reading a book about dating and relationships but then today everywhere someone was told to read, and I truly felt that God was telling that He had something else to say to me. I didn't do it until this afternoon but I did eventually. Then I read something that made me come to grips, I need to find MYSELF and the passions that God has bestowed upon me for His kingdom before I even think about relationships or any of that sort. And as I looked back at what really has mattered to me, I see the things that have brought true joy, and happiness, music and being a part of others in the sense of this:

John 17:15-17

15My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. 16They are not of the world, even as I am not of it. 17Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.

For me, it means I can be in the world but not of the world. I can live in it and have loved ones that are a part of it but that doesn't mean that I have to be of that. I can and will still continuously love my Daddy, Abba, even if I sin. I know He loves me No matter what. That's just an amazing thing to comprehend.

I still sit here and ponder His will for the life that He created for me to live for Him. I just know that I am a blank sheet of paper and Jesus is the CRAYON. I am the blank canvas and He is the WATER COLORS. I am nothingness and Jesus is Everything.

God is The Painter. The Ultimate Artist. The Musician. The Speaker. The Everything.

Kim S.

Life Freedom...God-Given Freedom

Previous posts I have said that I would never tell my family that I read Boundaries In Dating. Well today, it was kind of slow but a God granted & God blessed experience. I felt like that my mom, aunt, sister, and grandma all understood where I was coming from when I said that I was fearful of telling them about it. When I was given their full attention, I felt like God was giving me the words to speak. It was fabulous!!!

God is an AMAZING GOD!!! He made healthy family relationships possible.
"Thank you, God."



Kim S.

Dating Truthes...or Lies

Boundaries in Dating(cont'd)
When I read a book that I really like, I tend to be one who just speeds right through it because I want to find out the ending. But this book is one where I just want to soak it all in. And I've never ever EVER hidden a book from my family before. EVER. I guess I feel like if they find out that I am reading a book about dating, it's all over for me, they will be fixing me up for sure and I don't want my first date to be like that. God is really making me see things in a whole different way of light. I never thought relationships could be on that type of level and still be fun and exciting at the same time. It's wonderful. Thanks be to God!!




Kim S.

What Boundaries...In Dating that is?

Hi
God has seriously been speaking to me lately. I don't like admitting the honest truth but after reading just the first chapter of this book, I'm going to.
If you put the word, ambiguous, in front of a kindergartener and asked them to tell you what it meant, they would have no clue(unless they were some God-Bless genius). Well that's me with dating. It's ALL over the place. Everywhere. I can't seem to hide from it. However, I don't know what it is.
Recently, the book, Boundaries in Dating, has been leaping out at me and this evening I read it, or just the first chapter. It's very different from what I have seen in my peers' relationships. I've interpreted so many different things. I've been so afraid to get involved and just because of God and His amazingly Divine Power, He made me see the good things in solid dating relationships, just in one chapter. I'm not going to give up on the book and go hop into the dating world just yet. But it just shows that there are many things in a relationship outside the stately obvious. I've been searching for something more. God gave me that ultimately with His Son and He knows my deepest desires. He won't hurt me. I love those truthes. They're amazing.



Kim S.

The Start of Something Amazingly New!!

Hi
Who would think that God would have such a plan as this? To put me, Kim, on this earth to become something important in His kingdom. I'm still kind of bewildered by that fact. I mean seriously I've looked at so many things that have happened in just the past few days, weeks, months, or even years, and I say "God, why did You save me from all those experiences?" or " Why did you let those great things happen to me?" It still puts me in awe. He truly has my best interest in mind and heart. This morning I sat down and almost cried finally learning that God loves me more than anyone ever could in this world, and it almost scares me but I love that I have someone up there loving me NO MATTER what I do wrong or right in my life. It's great. You can't find that anywhere on the face of the earth or in the entire galaxy. It has taken me over 22 yrs and a ton of broken hearts to figure this Godly love thing out. I've known that He's loved me unconditionally but I never thought about other factors. It's truly the unseen. Wow!!

1Corinthians 13 says:

Love

1If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 12Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Kim S.