God is very real to me

All it takes is one moment for your faith to come alive to the point of no return.  One equilibrium-altering experience.  One life-changing revelation.  One occasion of God invading your life.  The reality is that our lives consist of many duller moments that preceed this moment– some of them good, some of them not so good.  In these duller moments, we may have faith that God is real, but if truth be told, our faith flickers like a light that can’t quite make up its mind whether it’s going to be on or off.  My story is this:  I’ve experienced God in a point of no return kind of way.  As a result, my faith in Christ is alive and I am not the same person I once was.  The balance of who I am is different.  The grace and perspective that I now have are different from what I had before.  My ability to discern the will of God and to follow Him is greater than ever before.  And yet, I still need His grace for every moment.

I think my wife is all that  

My wife is an expression of God’s grace in my life.  Simply put, I don’t deserve her.  She blesses me in so many ways.  And, she just happens to be beautiful.   Our love story is a testimony to so many aspects of God:  His patience, His covenant, His grace, His mercy, etc.  I thank God for my life partner.   Best of all, we thank God for two incredibly fun kids who happen to enjoy dancing passionately every night before they go to bed.  #BecauseThey’reHappeee!!!

I’m a Christian first, and ____________ second. 

Regardless of what I do for work, my calling is to make myself available to God for His purpose and plan for my life.  Thus, I spend quality time with God so I can be who He wants me to be and do what He wants me to do.  My obedience is essential for His grace to be fully released in my life.  Thus, I make myself available to Him so His grace can establish the work of my hands and so I can prosper in the work He’s given me to do.

God has been patient with me 

I thank God for being patient with me.   He could have just given up on me a long time ago, but He didn’t.  When I didn’t believe in myself, He believed in me.  When I wanted to give up, He gave me strength.  When He said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you”, He really meant it.  God is always speaking, whether we are listening and obeying or not.  Thus, I thank Him for being patient with me as I’ve grown in Him.  I am a work in progress and thus my personal expressions are a work in progress.

I value time more than ever 

I didn’t always value time like I do now.  I wish I could clearly explain to you how I came to respect time more.  All I know is that when I made myself available to God by seeking Him, the God of time showed me what my time looked like.  Suddenly, the time I thought I had looked much less than it did before.  I could either beg God for more time, or ask Him for the grace to obey Him with my time.   I do both.

God has awakened me.

I pray He will awaken us.