I am back!!

I am so very sorry to those of you who follow Devoetry, but life was hectic and well honestly I have no excuse.  I can always find time for God.  Lets talk about God since the subject was brought up.  If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you can tell that mountain to jump into the ocean and it will.  WOW, the size of a mustard seed.  Do you guys have any idea how small a mustard seed is.  It is extremely small and yet God says if we just have that much faith the World is ours.  Now hold your horses, not in the sense of the prosperity gospel, it doesn’t mean your winning lotto or someone is going to give you 24″ rims for your car.  It means that having faith and trusting Christ means a lot to Him.  He wants us to see Him even as hard as it is to trust what we can’t see.  Basically He wants for us to say Lord here is what I need and then let Him provide as He sees fit.  Our goal is not to pray for success or for a wife or for a new car.  No, we are to pray in hunt for and search of His kingdom and His righteousness.  When we seek HIM first , these other things will follow.  He loves us and He wants to spoil us.  He wants to be in our everyday lives.  He wants to know what scares us, but not because He is the all mighty and all knowing God, but rather because we tell Him because He is our friend.  My faith has sadly not even been close to that of a mustard seed, but I am working on that day by day.  I am starting by realizing over and over again, that my life is not about me.  I am here to serve a King, a King that wants to share His love and show His beloved that their brokenness is not the end.  The healing comes from a Christ who knew how nasty this world can and will be.  A God who said that if I do not sacrifice myself then I will have none of my beloved to share eternity with.  I plead with you to pray and pray and pray.  Pray for those in need and for those who cannot pray for themselves.  Faith the size of a mustard seed is what I am striving for.  My end goal is not to tell a mountain to jump in the ocean, rather it is to one face Christ and say Your will is done. Amen and Amen