I Love Sundays
I really do. I mean, first of all there's church to look forward to. You get to see all of your friends, and meet your hug quota for the week all in one day, you get to sing great songs/hymns with the family of God, sometimes you get to go out to lunch with your family, or even better, there's a bbq going on for some charitable organization and you can buy chicken or tri tip at a reasonable price, you can take naps, play games, play sports, watch movies, clean your room, do laundry, blog, and many other things that I can't think of right now. But I just love the Sunday mood. You know what I mean?
Happy Easter by the way. The Lord is indeed risen. Pastor's sermon was great this morning. I love the way he talked about the day we will stand before the throne of God to hear our "sentence", and He will say, "How do you plan to pay for all of these offenses?" And Jesus will stand up as my defendant and say, "I paid the price for her." How amazing. I will forever keep that picture in my head.
Since it is Sunday, and I really don't have much to do right now, I think I'll write about something I was thinking about last night. If I may use the word, I was thinking about how my reationship with the Lord has evolved over these past few years. And one big thing that I really thought of was the way I thought He looked at me. I realized that I had always looked at God as a judge, I guess like a police officer. If I was reading my Bible, and following His laws, He would be happy with me and love me, but if I wasn't doing those things, I felt like He would judge me and maybe even love me less. And that led to me obeying Him in order to, I guess, earn more of His love. As I have grown in these past few years I have realized that He fully loves me all of the time. Whether I obey Him or not. Whether I am faithfully reading His word, or not. Whether I am ministering to His sheep, or not. I don't need to do anything to earn His favor, I already have it. And knowing that motivates me to serve Him, follow Him, obey Him, and love Him. It's so much easier to have a realtionship with Him when He's not Officer God. I feel so much more free now that I can look at Him in this light, as a Father who loves me dearly whether I am sinning or not. I am so thankful that He is new everyday.
Happy Sunday everyone!