I can't believe it's July already! Time keeps just slipping through my fingertips like sand through the narrow part of the hourglass.
I must begin by saying that I haven't been this in love with Jesus for months. I am yearning and craving for more of Him like I used to, and I am loving every second of it.

It is so good for me to go through trial and pain and temptation and fear and know during all of it that Jesus is Lord and Sovereign over my life. Although faith doesn't require proof, the fact that He keeps me steadfastly by His side even when I am my weakest assures me so strongly of my secure foundation.

So despite the fact that last week I experienced one the hardest nights of my life ever to this point, I fell asleep with a smile on my lips and thoughts of my Lord's faithfulness to comfort and guard my heart and mind.

And what joy I have found in studying again! I want to devour, I want to learn, I want to challenge, and be challenged, and minister and lead and serve. I have been shown again the passion that had been lacking, the desire to die to sin every single day, every minute of the day. Forget the fact that it's humanly impossible, all things are possible with my God, and I am called to be holy.

And so, forgetting what is behind, I strain toward the hope of the cross, the hope that is so firmly planted in my soul that Jesus will come back, and I will hear the words, "Well done, my good and faithful servant." This member of the Bride of Christ is longing again to be faithful to One and One only.

When I wake in the morning,
I want to blow into pieces
I want more than just okay, more than just okay
~Switchfoot, More than Fine~