simply LOVE.

Living by faith is a process, but imagine what the world would be like if every Christian on earth were to submit to God. We are called to be disciples of Christ and not ‘Sunday-Christians,’ when we are living exactly the way God called us to, it is then that his greatest works can be done.

I heard this quote from my really good friend a few months back and it put a really big smile on my face.

“What would the world look like if we literally loved the hell out of eachother??”  -Lani Ledingham

Here is a quote from Andrew Kooman’s play ‘She Has a Name’

“There is a river hidden deep underneath the earth, filled with every single tear that’s ever been shed. One day that river is going to explode and start to flood…”


Some people would think that if there was a world full of love & caring people-we would all be miserable, think about it… There would be Dora the Explorer/Barney the Purple Dinosaur on every channel and no swearing would be allowed. You would constantly be smothered with hugs from fat ladies three doors down making you cookies, whenever something hard happened in life you would be faced with an ‘awwe… well I really don’t know what to say to you-things will get better!’ and anti-depression pills would sky-rocket. But that is NOT the true love, blameless and faultless that God had when he sent his son to die on the cross for our sins. It really got me thinking, have I been living life to my fullest lately? Have I been showing every person I know the love of Christ-pure and blameless. Many days I may be tired and worn down and my faith may need a serious pick me up, but it always seems that when we ask God “Lord-give me more faith” he says ok. That is really when he gives us the opportunity to test ourselves



What WOULD our lives look like if we took 4 minutes to say ‘you know what? I’m gonna buy a bouquet of flowers for my neighbor who always seems down; leave them on her front step, ring her doorbell and leave. I’m going to give a little bit more in church so that my church can reach & bless other people. I’m going to re-connect with someone I haven’t talked to in awhile and speak into their lives. I am going to take the time to show somebody the love of Christ today NO MATTER HOW BIG OR SMALL-don’t let money be an issue and stop you from blessing other people. When it comes down to it, do you want to be face to face with God in the end and have him ask you “why didn’t you help that person” and reply a stupid answer like ‘because I was saving for a vacation fund.’

God showed me two verses the other day that really spoke to me. Psalm 91 & Isaiah 28:23-29;

The verses in Psalm 91 show us that if we cling to God with our lives, and if he is our fortress-than we TRULY have nothing to fear. [memory verse here]. Psalm 121:3 [New Century Version] also says this: “He will not let you be defeated. He who guards you never sleeps”

Isaiah 28:23-29 is a section of verses that aren’t so clear, when God spoke to me but I was perplexed. I became so confused because I knew that God was trying to tell me something-but every time I read this verse, I became more and more confused. I began to research the verse on Google to see if I could find any clarity, and here is what I found from an online sermon.

1-    At the time this was being spoken, there was a lot of sin in the world and God was very angry with the people. The book of Isaiah is full of telling how ‘someone is coming despite how horrible the world is who has come to heal all of the brokenness.’ When you read Matthew/the New Testament you will see A LOT of references to Isaiah and how the ‘one person’ Isaiah was prophecying about was Christ.

[Here is some of the situation of what was happening in the world when God spoke this: Isaiah 29:1, 14-15, Isaiah 33:1]

2-    There was NO modern technology and farming was a very long and strenuous process which took a very long time. The soil had to be absolutely perfect with no lumps before the seeds could be planted.

3-    In order to harvest the plants, some had to be threshed and some had to be done VERY delicately to remove the fruit otherwise it would be ruined. Threshing was a very harsh process, but one that was necessary so that grains could be harvested. God was planning on threshing the majority of the sinful people BUT he had not forgotten about the few who were still faithful; they were to be handpicked later.

4-    Verse 29: “All this comes from the Lord Almighty, wonderful in counsel and magnificent in wisdom.’ It ends with words of comfort saying, even though there is a lot of evil happening in the world to those that are faithful there won’t be any reason to fear.  

End points. Although there was a lot of evil surrounding in the world, God will not forget about his people that are faithful to him. If we are faithful and diligent to God and serve him, then we truly have nothing to worry about. God uses these evil circumstances in the world to bring good/his glory and to change lives.
Sometimes we need to go through the threshing/harvesting in order to receive the spiritual fruit/blessings in our lives.