You Make Me Brave


Tomorrow I get baptized in the chesapeake bay and tonight, I just simply can't sleep.

I'm nervously excited.
I'm glad I am not doing this alone.
I've reflected enough.

This is HUGE. This is going public with my faith. This is a stamp of devotion to my King. I don't have to be scared because he has brought me through it all and will continue to encourage, guide, hover, teach, heal, love, prune etc. Years from now, in whatever season I am in, I won't ever forget this symbolism of commitment to Christ and pledge of clear conscience before God.


He gets the glory from my story.
He gets to show off in so many lives tomorrow.
WE, US, ALL, EVERYONE get to celebrate tomorrow.

This for me, is like, better than christmas morning when I was a child.

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I made the decision to follow Christ the year after graduating college. Beginning of senior year I had experienced an internal death. It felt like an internal stripping. What I did not know then, was an intricate part- the Holy Spirit interceding the soul for death to happen in order to initiate life. I made the decision to follow Christ not because of the realization of the addiction and shame that followed, but because within that moment of intercession, I got a glimpse of Christ's suffering looking upon myself in that addiction. By the power of the Holy Spirit the log was yanked from my eye.

A couple years later, I can say I am New in Christ. My hope is in Him whose love has been poured out, into this heart by the Holy Spirit. My relationship with God today is a work in progress. I am coming to understand a real and true intimate relationship with God. Through this communion with my Heaven Father, he continues to transform my heart and mind into his likeness.


You Make Me Brave By Amanda Cook and Bethel Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Hi-VMxT6fc&feature=kp

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