hmm.... so today was good. . . I awoke this morning a little drowsy i'll admit, i was at BJ's till late watching "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory". I knew good and well i had to be up kinda early for church, but i couldn't resist watching a classic like that. You don't just get that opportunity every day. . .

After Charles' class, which is always awesome, we had a guest speaker in Big Church that blessed my heart! He spoke a topic i often need to hear: The affects of an audacious christian. If we fully understand what we are now that we have been paid for by the blood of our savior, how could we not live audaciously in this life? To live a christian life as anything other than audacious is possibly this biggest understatement and injustice in the history of man! The creator of the universe sent his SON to die on a cross... for me (justin vance) He put this stars in the sky and knows each of them by name. He's seen the depths of my heart and loves me the same!!!
I don't think I'll ever get over it! It never ceases to blow me away! For what other purpose could i live my life for? If there were ever a reason to live life audaciously, this is it! It has been discovered!

soo. . . after lunch and some time with dad, i headed back to church for a hardcore game of unltimate friz... after running to the point of a good sweat and an accomplished feeling of excercise i boarded the little ford focus headed for home. Not knowing to listen or expecting to hear from God, my only focus was getting home to a home-cooked meal, compliments of my mama.

Now tonight i strike the keys with a heart filled with humbleness. Driving down the "4-lane" one foot hanging out the window (i cut a toe in ultimate), i looked in my rearview mirror. Over the last few minutes God had chosen to paint an amazing sunset then decided to show it to me! I almost ran off the road staring at it. Strong pinks laced with streaks of white and orange accented perfectly the deep blue spread across the sky. Then it hit me, where i was and what i was doing. I didn't deserve to be in my car, i didn't deserve to be coming home to a family, much less a meal. I didn't deserve to be able to enjoy a sunset like i was. I didn't deserve to have the breath in my body that, for some reason, God chose to put there this morning.

What i deserve is death and nothing less! But through His unrelenting grace and faithful, mind-blowing love, He made me a new creation, now identified, not in my sin, but it the cross of Jesus! This concept is truly motivation to live an audacious life for Christ!

The sunset event was a good capoff to something that had been dwelling in my heart. Like an answer from the Father to a quite voice i had been hearing all day. Something i could never completely understand, but live my life for!

O Lord my God, When I in awesome wonder,
Consider all the worlds Thy Hands have made;
I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder,
Thy power throughout the universe displayed.

And when I think, that God,
His Son not sparing;
Sent Him to die, I scarce can take it in;
That on the Cross, my burden gladly bearing,
He bled and died to take away my sin.

Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee,
How great Thou art, How great Thou art.
Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee,
How great Thou art, How great Thou art!

And then proclaim: "My God, how great Thou art!"