Oh Come Let Us Adore Him

You know what I have been learning this Christmas?

I've been learning that I don't think I have a clue what REAL adoration looks like. I am kind of scared to say that on here, cause who knows how many people may feel like its so easy to just adore the Lord...but I don't know that I take time to really just adore the Lord.

Don't get me wrong, I love the Lord with all my heart. Thinking and dwelling with Him in my heart throughout the day makes life full and meaningful. It gives my life purpose.

But worshiping in true adoration. I think I have a lot to learn. I don't quite know how to approach this except to just say, "Jesus, I need to learn how to just adore and rejoice in you."

Often times I get freaked out, cause I just don't know how to figure out things. Like in this instance, I don't know how to learn how to truly adore the Lord. I see examples of it in Psalms, but that is not exactly a practical "how-to". Sometimes, this accounting oriented brain would just like a simple "how-to".

The one thing I know though, is that even though there is not a "how-to"....God is faithful. I know with all assurance that if I seek Him, He will be faithful to answer. He may not give me a "how-to", but what He will give me will be a wonderful answer like I could have never imagined.

Lord, teach me how to praise you, teach my heart how to rejoice in your name always, guide my heart to sing praises as David did...teach me how to love you more.

Psalm 150

A Psalm of Praise.

1Praise the LORD!
Praise God in His sanctuary;
Praise Him in His mighty expanse.
2Praise Him for His mighty deeds;
Praise Him according to His excellent greatness.
3Praise Him with trumpet sound;
Praise Him with harp and lyre.
4Praise Him with timbrel and dancing;
Praise Him with stringed instruments and pipe.
5Praise Him with loud cymbals;
Praise Him with resounding cymbals.
6Let everything that has breath praise the LORD.
Praise the LORD!

i love days with my sister :)

today i did a whole lot of errands. nothing really spectacular and honestly would have been so boring....

BUT

i had my sister!


i just love her! we have SO much fun together. and somehow going to the chiropractor, waiting for 30 minutes so that a store would open to get a gift, going to the next store to pick up a gift, going to the bank and finally going to my doctor just to tell her that i have mono again. but it was worth it to stick in a wonderful lunch at olive garden.

we just have so much fun together. we love being silly and dancing to all of her millions of Christmas songs on her ipod. we love laughing about crazy drivers in San Antonio. she is so supportive of reed and i and she never tires of me talking about him, or our wedding.

she is great :)







Thank you Jesus for sisters!

no more school or work...

wow, i do not know what to do with myself right now.

thats a lie, i do know what i should do. i should stop wasting time online and go clean and be productive. i should spend some sweet time with the Lord and then do some work around the apartment. its amazing how my soul longs for that, but my flesh longs to sit and not put effort into everything.

here is my first confession on this blog...i have to actively fight my laziness. it is not easy for me to get motivated. and even though i enjoy reading my bible a heck of a lot more than i enjoy sitting mindlessly at my computer, sometimes i really have to fight the urge to sit here and let my mind be numb. i think i buy into satan's lie that it is the fun and good to sit and do nothing purposeful. but then that is his goal...to make me do nothing purposeful. i often have to take a step back and look at the entirity of the situation before i realize that i am doing the exact thing that satan desires...making myself ineffective through my own laziness.

ugh. well, here is my first step to fight the temptation today. i'm going to stop blogging. and then i'm going to go have a fruitful day. :) :)

God is good and oh so patient. Thank you Lord!

okay so i promise i'll write...

at least i'll try to be consistent....

reed and i have had a blog for a while, but its mostly for little sweet notes to each other. so, that is the reason why no one else is allowed in :) sorry haha

so today i'm cleaning out my room! it's so weird that finals are done, but i'm still here. i've been doing a whole lot of nothing....which is good and bad.

it's good to relax. it's bad to take relaxing too far. by too far i mean i've not had much time with the Lord, which is not a good thing for me, cause i will inevitably have a rough time when i don't spend time with the Lord. So today, I'm excited to spend some good time with the Lord :)

Then tonight it's game night time with the Perryman's! I think i might bring my camera! That is a big step for me...i haven't been a camera person since like freshmen and sophomore year. and by camera person, i simply mean someone who ALWAYS is taking pictures at every single event of their life. if they go to a party, they post a million pics, if they go bowling, half a million pics, if they eat lunch in their apartment, 1/4 of a million pics. anyways, i think i'm going to try and be a better documenter of my life....so beware, i'll be with a camera :)

on to cleaning my room and spending time with Jesus!