I got excited yesterday and today and hopefully tomorrow...because (and this is a profound revelation!) my God is an awesome God. He is AMAZING!
I went to bed praying for little things like good weather in the morning so that I would enjoy my walk to the dentist, I prayed that I wouldn't get lost in the hospital and I prayed for a load of other little bits, the usual sort of thing. So when I woke up and the weather was beautiful I was thankful, when I didn't get lost in the hospital I was thankful...God blessed me soooo much yesterday, with how He answered my silly little prayers. And then I just got excited, it was like a fresh revelation, whilst singing along to Hillsongs I felt excited, I felt like a kid does at Christmas, I felt like I do at Christmas-excited!! Excited about God's love, about what He's done for me! We have a God who has done so much for us, a God who listens to us no matter what we are saying or how long for (and He knows that I talk a lot). I couldn't wait to go to church today, even though I would be a visitor I was still excited to stand once again in His presence. I was just overwhelmed yesterday by the fact that God's presence was in my house, was in my kitchen and made me want to scream, jump up and down, dance, laugh, cry, kneel...everything and anything!! I for one don't get excited often enough about what He does for me! He is an amazing God, why are we not excited?? Why do we not live everyday being excited? I want to wake up everyday with that feeling of excitement and with the feeling of shivers down my spine at the thought that I have a God who loves me! I am officially excited about God, don't get me wrong I've always been excited about Him, after all how can you not?...God deserves everything I've got and I am excited about giving Him everything, just as I am excited about being loved by Him. It is so easy to let the excitement slowly fade and vanish away, but we need these 'fresh revelations', these renewals, to remind us what it was first like when we became Christians. I felt like a child again, like I was 7 years old and had just given my life to God and wanted to tell everyone and anyone around! So I guess my challenge today, is one that I am going to challenge myself on more often...How excited are you today about God? Where's your excitement? Where's your sense of childish excitement? Do you long to be excitedly hungry and thirsty for a God who is greater and better than ALL things? I want to wake up everyday with a burning passion that gets me excited, that gets me feeling like a kid on Christmas Day. I know that troubles will come and the excitement may come under pressure, but I still want to strive to be excited, I still want to wake up breathing in the presence of my awesome God. I know that this may be a rambling post (what one's aren't?) with perhaps no strong theology or biblical background, but just put it down to being childishly excited about an awesome God!I'm excited...what about you? (Sorry I used the word excitment/excited etc so much, it begins to grate after the first 15 times I know!)
I went to bed praying for little things like good weather in the morning so that I would enjoy my walk to the dentist, I prayed that I wouldn't get lost in the hospital and I prayed for a load of other little bits, the usual sort of thing. So when I woke up and the weather was beautiful I was thankful, when I didn't get lost in the hospital I was thankful...God blessed me soooo much yesterday, with how He answered my silly little prayers. And then I just got excited, it was like a fresh revelation, whilst singing along to Hillsongs I felt excited, I felt like a kid does at Christmas, I felt like I do at Christmas-excited!! Excited about God's love, about what He's done for me! We have a God who has done so much for us, a God who listens to us no matter what we are saying or how long for (and He knows that I talk a lot). I couldn't wait to go to church today, even though I would be a visitor I was still excited to stand once again in His presence. I was just overwhelmed yesterday by the fact that God's presence was in my house, was in my kitchen and made me want to scream, jump up and down, dance, laugh, cry, kneel...everything and anything!! I for one don't get excited often enough about what He does for me! He is an amazing God, why are we not excited?? Why do we not live everyday being excited? I want to wake up everyday with that feeling of excitement and with the feeling of shivers down my spine at the thought that I have a God who loves me! I am officially excited about God, don't get me wrong I've always been excited about Him, after all how can you not?...God deserves everything I've got and I am excited about giving Him everything, just as I am excited about being loved by Him. It is so easy to let the excitement slowly fade and vanish away, but we need these 'fresh revelations', these renewals, to remind us what it was first like when we became Christians. I felt like a child again, like I was 7 years old and had just given my life to God and wanted to tell everyone and anyone around! So I guess my challenge today, is one that I am going to challenge myself on more often...How excited are you today about God? Where's your excitement? Where's your sense of childish excitement? Do you long to be excitedly hungry and thirsty for a God who is greater and better than ALL things? I want to wake up everyday with a burning passion that gets me excited, that gets me feeling like a kid on Christmas Day. I know that troubles will come and the excitement may come under pressure, but I still want to strive to be excited, I still want to wake up breathing in the presence of my awesome God. I know that this may be a rambling post (what one's aren't?) with perhaps no strong theology or biblical background, but just put it down to being childishly excited about an awesome God!I'm excited...what about you? (Sorry I used the word excitment/excited etc so much, it begins to grate after the first 15 times I know!)
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