What A Salvation!!!...even in cold Wisconsin

I miss summer weather!!! Yesterday and today, I had to scrape the frost of my car windshield... It snowed this past week. It is almost twenty degress below the average for this time of year. I was looking at pictures from this summer, and I thought of how much I miss the heat...its not that bad.

Anyway, God has been good these past few days... The Lord is so gracious to the those like me even though we fail Him daily. Praise him for his mercy and grace. And praise Him for His wondrous Salvation. For now I live.

I take him at his word and deed
Christ died to save me this I read
And in my heart I find a need
For him to be my savior

That he would leave his place on high
And come for sinful man to die
You count it strange, so once did I
Before I knew my savior

Rejected by his enemies...
Denied by his friends...
Killed by his people...

All this for me...

Show Us Your Glory

I just finished a paper on God's omnipresence and God's omniscience. I realize after doing that the reason I love this world so much, is because I am not amazed and interested in God enough. Oh, how as christians we fail to be enamored by God's holiness, power, love, justice, and grace. Lord, show us your glory.

J.I. Packer says,
"I am graven on the palms of his hands. I am never out of his mind. All my knowledge of him depends on his sustained initiative in knowing me. I know him because he first knew me, and continues to know me. He know me as a friend, one who loves me; and there is no moment when his eye if off me, or his attention distracted from me and no moment, therefore, when his care falters."

On A Walk

This is all so simple.
A couple days ago following classes, I searched for my family's car to go home, and I found to my dismay that it was not on campus.



So, I had to walk home. Usually, something I like to do for relaxation and meditation, but with my schedule being so hectic, I just wanted to get home as quick as possible.

But, I began to walk. My home is less than a mile from my college campus so it doesn't take more than fifteen minutes to arrive at home.

I love the fall's colors, and as I walked that warm, autumn afternoon, I began to look and praise God for the beautiful trees and the sky which with its vastness glides into such amazing peace. While admiring God's undeniably gorgeous creation, I was humming the second verse of a song I heard some time ago:

Now close your eyes,
so you can see your own unfinished memories,
Now open them for time is brief,
and you'll be bless beyond belief;
Now take a glance up at the sky,
there is beauty there to fill the eye...

I love God, and the beautiful season called fall. I was rebuked at my forgetfulness of all God is. May we all enjoy it too its fullest this year, 2006.