Merry Christmas you guys!
today was so great... i love christmas.

on fuel on saturday, Jeff spoke.. it totally was like where i'm at right now! kind of like.. it's all or nothing, your in or your out, you need to conform your life to God, live in Him, be a sacrifice (cuz God's worthy!) ..."do you wanna be hearing the stories, or telling them?"

...AMEN! what else can i say? i want that! i want to live for the king. overcoming temtation may be hard, but He is WORTHY. i have nothing to give, but what He has given me. all i have is God's anyways, so why don't we give it back to him? that reminds me of the song we sang at fuel... "every blessing you pour out i'll turn back to praise" we need to give God the glory in everything that we do, God will be the strength in our weakness, he sees beauty when we're broken before him. we are nothing, but much more if Gods inside of us!

there must be more than what we have seen, there must be more than what we have heard, there must be more than what we have felt. we have only scratched the surface of the glory of God! we need to press in people! we need to want more! there is SO MUCH MORE! we want Jesus and His love to be our hearts desire.

(by the way, i'm preaching at myself here, so don't think i'm some spiritual perfect person or anything)

so.. this christmas has been a wonderful one. i am trying to see Jesus as the whole reason for this holiday. we are celebrating the fact that Jesus can live in our hearts. isn't that like the best thing in our whole lives! isn't that what we're living for? who cares about the presents, Jesus' birth, and Jesus' death are the best gifts of all!

may God bless you richly this christmas and show you His gift for you:)
love,
~christine~