Sweet Reminders

Polar Bear Challenge 2012, a great excuse to get back to Camp Eagle to serve that community and those the Lord will bring to camp in the future by doing some work projects, making some hilariously fun memories, having some great fellowship & ultimately being reminded of lots of precious promises/things the Lord taught us in previous months spent at camp. Funny how sometimes the things we teach to campers as a counselor is also what the Lord is teaching us. Sometimes we preach to our own choir because we too need to hear it & believe it ourselves.

Whenever you feel judged I hope you hear God reminding you that people hated Him too. They hated Him and it didn't matter because He was on a mission, He had a bigger purpose than to focus on that hatred.

There's nothing you can do to make the Lord love you any less. I can remember saying this countless times to campers throughout the summer but I'm not sure if I paused to truly internalize it, until this week. I forget sometimes that the only love that is unconditional is from the Lord. There are so many things our hearts yearn for that only the Lord can fulfill & as long as we look to another human to fill voids within us- we will be disappointed. We cannot be ready to be fully with another until we have completely submitted and understood the Lord's love for us & that we can only get it from Him. His love is unconditional & His love is eternal.

Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

2 Corinthians 4: 16-18

Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Come near to God and He will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will lift you up.

James 4:7-10

My eyes will watch over them for their good, and I bring them back to this land. I will build them up and not tear them down; I will plant them and not uproot them. I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord. They will be my people, and I will be their God, for they will return to me with all their heart.

Jeremiah 24: 6-7

Make the Kingdom of God your primary concern.