I don’t understand why people don’t like being single, like:

• You’re under no obligation to text someone all day every day
• You don’t have to care if you look pretty
• You can pursue whatever passions you want
• Freedom
• More energy for Jesus
• Jesus
• Jesus

Experience the presence of God every day of your life.
He is constantly available to us.
Not just on Sundays.
And we don’t need a song to bring Him.

God is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all.

We are dead to sin and alive in Christ, so stop trying so hard to put sin to death when Jesus already did that on the Cross.
Stop trying so hard to make a formula for purity (all the while, bashing everyone else’s ways) and start focusing on the One who makes our hearts pure.
Stop trying so hard to set yourself free and start looking to the One who frees all things.
Stop tearing yourself up over a mistake and start looking to the One who puts broken things back together and reconciles all things to Himself.

Can I just rant for a second, please?

The Christian music awards show in Nashville, Tennessee.  I mean, I get their intentions.  No, on second thought, I don’t understand their intentions one bit, so can someone please explain them to me?

Excuse me? Now we’re voting on who has the “best” Christian music and awarding those that people deem to be awarded?  Seriously?  That is how we’re going to distinguish ourselves from the rest of the world?  By voting on who is worshiping God the best?  Can I put my vote in for the starving mother in Thailand who faithfully sings her heart out every day that she toils away for 13 hours to support her children and glorify God in everything she does?

Can we get back to the core of what it means to worship God?

It’s not about us.

Christ suffered AGONY on the Cross, took every single one of our sins that we’ve ever committed or will commit.  He took them to the grave and left them there when He rose again.  He did that so we could live changed lives, completely free and completely redeemed.

And we respond by holding a Christian Grammy award ceremony?

The gospel not only saves us, it sustains us.

The testimony of Jesus if the Spirit of prophecy.

Blessed are the pure at heart, for they will see God…

Growing up in my walk with Christ, I often had a hard time with this verse. It seemed as though no one had a truly pure heart or even the desire to have one. Because if they did, they would see God, right? He would just show up and someone with a pure heart would just look and say, “oh hey, God!”
That’s not exactly how it works…
I didn’t understand this until one day someone walks up to me and tells me I have a pure heart. My mind immediately jumped to this beatitude and rejected the notion. there was no way my heart was pure.
I’ve come to the realization that someone with a pure heart doesn’t necessarily literally see God (although it’s entirely possible), but rather, one can see God in all things.
God is good and the pure at heart can see the good in things.
God is love, and can be seen in even the most immovable things because He loves us at our most unlovable.

Don’t doubt being pure at heart.  Because of Christ’s work on the Cross, He has made us all pure at heart.

Blessed are the pure at heart…

God puts people in our lives that invest in us. they may not stay forever, and sometimes it really hurts when they leave, but God cares for us and He invests in us.
God is not uninvolved in our lives.

God sees our hurt and knows; He knows even when no one else cares to look.

Worth: knowing Christ and being found in Him.

Seeking something in life at the expense of Christ is not worth it.