How am I not Dead????

How have we become so irreverent? How have we made God so small? This GREAT HUGE GOD that created the universe desires to spend time with me, longs for me, misses me and loves me. He created me to be with Him. Yet, I CHOOSE to regularly ignore my true souls craving to be with Him. I CHOOSE to do stupid and trivial things instead of spending time with Him. I CHOOSE to ignore the conviction he places on my life. I have held the very word of God in my hands and not been excited about. This Word that the Bible says can strip the forest bare, sharper than a double edge sword, I have held it and not been in awe that God would think enough of me knowing Him that he would arrange for it to be written.
How am I not dead? Not only is God so great, but He is so loving. So loving He CHOOSES not strike me down. HE CHOOSES to forgive me. He CHOOSES to still speak to me. He CHOOSES to love me the same. Wow.... I am not worthy of any of this.
May God help us to remember how HUGE He is so we may not take Him, His word, or His presence for granted.

SIN Happens

In the movie Forest Gump, there is a pretty funny scene where Forest is running across america. He runs through a pile of .... waste..... and someone running with him points it out. Forest's reaction was "it happens" and he just kept running. This is how we need to be in our Christian lives. As Christians we are going to sin - it never fails. We should never use that as an excuse for sinning but we must remember perfection is something for which we strive. It's how we respond to sin that tells how mature of a Christian we are. Sin Happens. We have 2 choices when it does. We can either stop, sit in it and cry about how we are sitting in sin - woe is me I have sinned - or we can say God, I screwed up - please forgive me and keep running towards Him. I have been having trouble with the latter lately. Sin happens - we just need to step it up and keep running.