More thoughts for you all. The theme of the conference was "Blessed", so each of the speakers spoke on how we are blessed in our spiritual walk with so many blessings of God on our lives, and how we ought to use those blessings and take full advantage of them. That much being said... here is a snippet from things that stood out to me from the different talks:
a. Blessed to Know God: In John 17:3 Christ prays saying that, "this is eternal life, that they might know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent." The thought I came away with was this... that there is simply no other greater thing that we can attain to in life, but to really know God. And this doesn't mean know about Him, but to actually know Him in the way that you know your best friend. Yes, you know lots of facts about them, like their favorite color and where they were born... but when you really know them, you know about their character and how they would act in certain situations. What makes them tic, and what touches their hearts. That's how we need to know God. And even though its impossible to fully know everything about God (I've been best friends with a girl for 4 years now, and we still find out new things about each other and the ways that we tic), learning more and more about Him in new ways every day is soooo encouraging.
b. Blessed to be Loved by God: Romans 8:37, "For I am convinced that neither death nor life, nor angels nor demons, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation is able to separate us from the LOVE OF GOD that is in Christ Jesus our Lord." There is no separation from the love of God. Not a single thing that could make God love us less. There is nothing and no one and no where and no how that could or has or can change that in our lives. Our lives therefore should be lived in response to that love. If we fully comprehended even a small portion of the vast love that God has for us, how that would drastically change the way we live our lives in the everyday. We could no longer go through life with the same emotions and same actions and same attitudes, but would be forced to live out this crazy life of love towards others in light of how much we ourselves are loved by this crazy God!
c. Blessed to be Forgiven and Righteous in the Eyes of God: Psalm 51 (the whole freakin' thing!) and Ephesians 1:4 "For He chose us in Him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in His sight." God sees us through eyes that see Christ's blood over our lives and that makes us perfect in His Eyes. God enjoys you; Zephaniah 3:17 "The Lord your God is with you, He is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, He will quiet you in His love, He will rejoice over you with singing."
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