Life

How can life truly acknowledge life, without first acknowledging it's Creator? It cant!! We are all dead, until we accept who made us, and trust Him. It is only than that we can truly live.
Love to all,
Karis
Jeremiah 31:3

One of my favorite songs by Sixteen Cities

Innocent
By Sixteen Cities


I've been holding on to
Everything that leaves me empty
Why can't I just let it go?
It's so hard to see through
Don't know how it always gets me
Or how I got down this road

I could never do enough,
There's no way to buy Your love
'Cause You've already paid
For all the things I've done

Chorus:
And You say to me
That I'm already innocent
And I can't believe
You take me as I am
And I'm on my knees
Begging for forgiveness
I know I'm guilty, but You make me innocent

How can You forgive me
When You know it's not the last time
And You know I'm gonna fall again?
Though my hands were dirty,
You were the One who died to cover all my sins

I could never do enough
There's no way to buy Your love
'Cause you've already paid
For all the things I've done

Chorus:
You say to tme
That I'm already innocent
And I can't believe
You take me as I am
And I'm on my knees
Begging for forgiveness
I know I'm guilty, but You make me innocent

I know I don't deserve it
I know I'll never earn it
So tell me how You can hold me in Your arms

Chorus:
And say to me
That I'm already innocent
And I can't believe
You take me as I am
And I'm on my knees
Begging for forgiveness
I know I'm guilty
Yeah I know I'm guilty
But You make me innocent
You make me innocent

A dream I had.....and what I got from it.

So last night I had a horrible dream. Not unusual but the way this one was some how seemed different from the other bad dreams I've had.
In my dream I got a job at a senior assisted living place (oddly enough, it was the same place my sister works at)  my parents and the rest of the family dropped me off for my first day of work. I grabbed my purse and started walking towards the entrance, I noticed that there was a scary looking man standing near the door and I decided I wouldn't need my purse (and that I didn't want him to steal it from me as i walked by) so I started walking back to the car, I remember he grabbed me and held a knife to my throat and started whispering in my ear about the horrible way he was going to kill me. Worse yet my family drove away :( somehow I got away from him and I ran about 10 feet away. One of the tiny knives he had he threw at me and missed, I threw it back at him and it just stuck in his really poufy jacket. I ran away as fast as I could, but I felt that I would never be able to escape him. This terrified me, but also I felt that I had some peace. Like this was just life, that I was going somewhere better. Which I know I will someday :) I'll skip the next part in my dream cause it made no sense. So anyways after trying to escape the town several times (there was a fence around the whole town) I went to one of the school teachers little trailers on the very edge of town. I opened the door, and stepped in. I knew that he knew where I was and that he would soon be headed my way. Now this is where it really gets interesting. I found a bible CD, that had children reciting bible verses on it. Some how I knew that if I played this when he came in he wouldn't be able to touch me. So my plan was simple as soon as he stepped in the door, push play on the CD player and start reciting scripture verses myself. I have no idea what happened next because I woke up. So I don't know whether I survived or whether he killed me.
The whole dream seems really strange, but when I woke up I thought of the evil man, he seemed alot like Saten in alot of ways, seeking to destroy us at every point in our walk with Christ. I know he didn't want me to have a peace about dying, thats why he whispered his evil plans in my ear, he wanted to scare me so bad that I would forget that God loves me, and that I have salvation in Him.
Even though my family deserted me at one point, it only made me cling more to my Savior. He's the only one that can truly save us, not our family, not our friends, ONLY JESUS.
I'm not sure if this will make any sense to anyone, it made alot of sense to me though.
Psalm 5:4 "For you are not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness, nor shall evil dwell in you."
Psalm 86:7 "In the day of my trouble I will call upon You, for You will answer me."
In His Name,
Karis
Psalm 70:1

Courting, dating and the works.

Okay so for those of you who know me really well, you know that I have struggled in the past with boyfriend/girlfriend relationships. Well about two months ago I decided I would read "I kissed dating goodbye" by Joshua Harris. I really enjoyed his perspective on dating/courting, and it really made me think about alot too(which is good). Anyways I finished it and have since started reading the second book "boy meets girl" and I truly believe that relationships if done right (and its Gods will) can work out. It is really sad how many Christian people get into dating without serious intentions and walk away broken, sad, and scarred. I encourage anyone that is considering a relationship, or even relationships in the future to read these books. I'm not saying that if you read these books you will have perfect relationships all the time, but I do believe these books help with getting a different perspective and helping you understand better.
Song of Solomon 8:4
God bless :)
Karis

P.S. Also don't rush into a relationship with a person of the opposite sex, always pray, talk to parents or wise counsel and be friends first. If only I had I had heard this advice in the past, maybe i would not have suffered in past relationships.......

Lukewarm Christians

Jesus calls for believers to be ether hot or cold in their belief of Him. Not lukewarm. You ether are or you aren't.(Rev. 3:16) I believe this verse to be saying that we ether need to be on fire for His glory or cool. God does not want us to be lukewarm in our faith. Often times we as Christians go through the motions of being believers but really we don't care. It's kind of like "oh lets go to church on Sunday" and thats it, thats the faith. We live like everyone else the rest of the week. Why? I think that most of the time it's because we're scared. We are scared to be different from everyone else. Because our culture is very messed up, and so when your different  people are not nice to you, you are persecuted because you are different. The bible tells us that if you are a lukewarm Christian, Christ will spit you out of his mouth, because what good are you? Your ether all in, or all out, black and white, so are you in or out? Christian, I encourage you to take a stand for Christ, not just on Sunday, but everyday. I mean this not as a judgement but as encouragement. Once again this is only my opinion on the subject.
Psalm 16:8
God bless!!
Karis