To never need anything???

I wonder what it would be like to never need anything. To have unlimited resources. To never need to eat, or drink, or need money or even a car or anything at all. Imagine what it would be like to never have need of anything in your life or to have never needed anything. I have been thinking about this a lot recently. I don't even think my human mind can imagine or think about what that would be. You see, I've always needed things and I'll always have needs.

The reason I was thinking about this is I have been confronted with the fact that the God of the universe has never needed anything. He's never needed friends, food, water, he's never needed sleep. The God that I serve has never needed anything. This is mind blowing to me!

My life is defined by need. I eat and I sleep because I need these things. I think that this is a really good picture of what we are like most of the time. I think the most astounding part of it all is that this God who has no needs would choose to associate with us needy people or delight in giving us what we need. That He who has never known need would look on our needs with compassion and not disdain that he would even consider giving us what we need. Wow.

What do you think, what blows your mind about God?

Where I applied to go this summer!

I'm trusting Jesus to take me there, waiting to hear back!

Tis the Season!

*Merry Christmas*

I pray that this season find you with full hearts in anticipation of the gospel. The Word becoming flesh. Today, I get to drive home and spend the day there. I am finished with finals! (Except for a small project due on Monday) We have received quite the dumping of snow up here, which leads to quite the interesting time dealing with plowing roads, and cold!

I sit and reflect, now that there's time, and i see how blessed I am, Christmas i just around the corner, I can barely believe it. I have been blessed with amazing opportunities this semester. It has been a bittersweet semester. It might sound weird, but I semi-loathe this upcoming thing called graduation. I am learning that I am a person who likes things to remain the way they've always been. Yet, life rarely remains the same.

This semester brings with it the occasion to say goodbye to some good friends and even more opportunities to trust Jesus. I think back to who I was at the beginning of the semester and who I am now. I had just said goodbye to 110 of some of the greatest people that God had blessed my life with. Somedays, I don't even know what to do without them, yet I see a God who is faithful! If only I could learn to trust Him with the same measure. Now, here I am, looking towards a month off a school, and am really looking forward to time for processing, even things from this summer.

Here is the chorus to a Christmas song that was written by the band Downhere, it always causes me to stop and think, and reflect. Hope it makes you do the same (the crown just seemed to fit with the title):

How many kings, stepped down from their thrones?
How many lords have abandoned their homes?
How many greats have become the least for me?
How many Gods have poured out their hearts
To romance a world that has torn all apart?
How many fathers gave up their sons for me?
Only one did that for me