Today's Question: Who am I Giving Glory?

This is inspired by a Bible verse I read today in Acts 12:23... "And immediately, the angel of the Lord struck him because he gave not God the glory"

..........................Yeeeeeeeah.. scary! That's a pretty creepy thing to think of. I know sometimes we seek our own glory. I'm prime for that, I know! haha Which is kinda bad.. actually it is bad. Like, my music. Okay.. To truly know me you have to know that I really love music. I love playing guitar and singing. So what I really want to do with that is to bring God's love to people, right? Well yes that's right, I guess you couldn't answer that question :P However, I also have this little part inside that wants people to think I'm awesome at the same time... which is bad. haha It's not bad to want people to like you and think you are talented, but that shouldn't be the focus in everything we do. Our focus should be on bringing glory to God, because He's the only One that deserves glory.

Funny, while I was writing this... I was listening to K-Love... here's what I heard.

Steven Curtis Chapman ... "Do Everything"
"Do everything you do to the glory of the One who made you 
Cause He made you to do 
Every little thing that you do to bring a smile to His face 
And tell the story of grace 
With every move that you make 
And every little thing you do "

Pretty good song, google it or yahoo it or something! haha It's a good reminder :)

Love and prayers,

Ruth

Today's Question: Am I taking it For Granted?

Holler over to Jason Gray... "Good to be Alive" ... that's where I got the line :) Actually, that line isn't in the song... I skewed what the song says to get that question out of it ;)

So this is yesterday's post... I was grounded yesterday, so I'm sorry about that! I may do another post later, but I don't know :D

Are we taking life for granted? I know I do sometimes.. more often than not, really. We need to remember not to take life for granted. It could be taken from us any day. Car accidents aren't so infrequent as we might wish they were ... I mean... scary right? You could die any day! :O So we need to make every day count as much as possible. Just smiling at someone can make a difference in their day! I've seen people just kind of dull looking and I smile at them and they brighten up. It makes it worth it, seriously.

Let's not take life for granted. It has been granted to us only as long as it has been and we don't know how long that is. So let's make it worth while right?

Praying for you as usual! Keep me in your prayers too, will you? I definitely need prayer, everybody does! I especially want this blog to help people, encourage them. Prayer for my posts to encourage would really be awesome! :D

Love you!
Ruth

Tenth Avenue North

Hey, check out their blog... it's super cool! I like this post they just posted :) They put some stuff up that makes me think, and other stuff that's just so fun! haha

Tenth Avenue North Blog

They are like.. probably my favourite Christian band due to their stance on a lot of things! :) I like their lead singer's encouragements! :D

Hope it encourages you!

Today's Question: Who am I?

So... Who am I? Ever been asked, "Who are you?" I have.. by people I thought knew! HAHAHA  okay but that's off topic right? Who are you? Who am I? I am a child of the one True King (little nod toward Matthew West there ;) ) I hope you are too!

But one of the questions (and this I think is just kind of a recurring thing in this series.. agreed?) we need to ask ourselves ABOUT this question is... do we show that we are a child of the King? Really this is one of the most important questions Christians should be asking themselves. We are ambassadors for Christ (ambassadors are people pretty much who represent their country/king) So we represent Christ and we need to be doing it correctly. Not saying anyone can be perfect, but we need to be actively aware of our missions.

Summary... Make sure you are showing you are a child of the King. Try to stay mindful of being an ambassador for Christ!

Praying for everyone (of course in general) that reads my posts!

Love,
Ruth

Same as before, feel free to comment, especially if you want prayer.

Today's Question: Am I a Light?

Okay, I'll admit, these are spur of the moment, not taking all that long a time to come up with a question HAHA This one was inspired by me going to K-Love and seeing they were playing "Learning to be the Light" by Newworldson.

Am I a light? I certainly hope so! But, still kind of running with the general drift of yesterday's, it is an active attempt being made on our parts that will make us lights. It isn't a laxidazical (yeah I made that word up!) just living doing the "right" things. It is actively attempting to be more Christlike, to help those in need that is being a light.

Let's try to focus on becoming better Christians. Let's focus on helping others and not just thinking "oh I have this". There's a bigger picture than most of us usually find the time to see. James says that "true religion is to help the fatherless and widows in their time of need" so let's help those in need, physical, mental and spiritual need. Prayer for those we know need strength/comfort/peace is also helping :) I must admit that is a great deal the extent of my helping! I don't have many resources at my disposal, but I love to help through prayer!

Love!
Ruth

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Today's Question: "Am I Just Getting By"

Song title by Tenth Avenue North :D Love that band! They have so many good songs!

So... Today's Question (new series I'm going to do on here! :D) I think it's a good question to ask ourselves occasionally. Am I just getting by? Well... I know a lot of the time that's all I'm doing. But we need to be doing more. We being humans, especially those of us who are Christians. We should have a mission to fulfill. We should be actively working to help make our surroundings better. We should be fueled by something, and that fuel needs to be God's Spirit awake in our hearts.

So umm in summary....

Let us stop just living and become alive. Let's pull together, nearer to each other to strengthen each of us in our work. (Anybody need a reference to No Man is An Island by Tenth Avenue North?) We need to drop our petty quarrels and disagreements and draw together as one!

We can do this!

Love,
Ruth

l Haven't a Clue what I'm talking About...

... meaning I don't know WHY I'm talking about it.

You know, it's really awesome being a Christian. Since I've steadily become more serious about it over the last year, it's really been cool seeing the way I've been learning things/being shown things by the Holy Spirit. I've found that my greatest comfort has been knowing God has a plan and that it is perfect. I know some people are probably like... comfort in what? I'll be the first to say, my life is extremely easy, nice, filled with love from my family and friends. I do, though, tend to worry about my future. I'm rather flighty minded so I'm not too good with sciences so sometimes I worry I won't get into college (I'm a music major hopeful) sometimes I get scared like, what  if nobody ever wants to marry me. That's like every girl's dream isn't it? Sometimes I might want something right now... But always, no matter what the thing is that I want or worry about, I can know that it quite obviously isn't time for that right now or I would have it. I can know that my future is going to be the absolute best it could be even if I don't get a degree in music, or don't get married. 'God works all things together for good to those who are called according to His purpose.'

It also makes life and following God a great adventure because I don't know  what is around the bend, but I know it will ultimately all be best for me, because God loves me and only wants the best for me.

Love,

Ruth