If you have faith...

as small as a mustard seed, you can say to the mountain "move from here to there" and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you. Matt 17:20

This verse came into my mind last night at about 12:20 am. Mind you I RARELY wake up in the middle of the night. I am blessed that once I am asleep, I am asleep. However last night Reese woke up with a leg cramp (oh no growing pains!). I got up and gave her some Motrin and laid in her bed to rub her legs. She was miserable and crying and moving and just in pain. I was rubbing her calves and praying it would ease. Suddenly she leans over, gives me a big hug and says "Thank you God." I didn't say anything back and she said, "The cramp is gone, goodnight." She rolled over and went back to sleep. I on the other hand laid in her bed hearing those words "Thank you God" over and over. And I kept hearing Matthew 17:20 (mind you I had to look up the scripture reference but knew the verse).

So today I ask, why IF we claim to have faith (even faith only as small as  mustard seed) do we still fight God so hard? Why don't we let Him change our lives? From the lyrics of Rich Mullins why would "I rather fight You for something I don't really want, then take what You give and I need?"

Really just a rhetorical question I guess. Just on my mind this AM and felt the need to blog about it.

What if IT changed your life? What are we so afraid of?

The same old question

So why am I up blogging at almost midnight. Well several reasons but the biggest is driving home the few miles tonight after helping a friend out and reading 2 great books while I was there, I keep thinking "What if...." So there you go the same old question.

What if it DID change your life? What if the change was greater than anything you could ever imagine or dream of? What if the cost seemed great but you realized the reward was even greater? What if caused you to re think every action of every day and turn your focus upward instead of inward? How free would you be to live when you let go?

Keep thinking...

24 Then Jesus said to His disciples, "If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me. 25 "For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. 26 "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul? (Matthew 16:24-26).

Really what do you have to lose? When you wake up one day and realize life is really lived to the fullest when you let go of yourself, how can you still hold on? If brokenness is defined as coming to the end of oneself then what's there when you get to the end of you? What if it was God? What if it was Jesus' unconditional love?

What if it changed your life? Ask me about how it's changed mine.

Great night.