...And the blue from the sky up above/And if you color my world just paint it with your love."
Yeah, I've had that song stuck in my head today. But try singin' it to God. :) It's quite nice. Ya know what else is cool? We have the mind of Christ. Yeah, I know you know it. I've been told that and have known it most of my life too. But do you believe it? Do you realize that if you'd studied and done everything in your power to learn something for a class that come test time you have every spiritual right to ask God to help you on the test and talk to Him DURING the test? Seriously! It works too. Ask Him for help when you're studying about what you should focus on. Thank Him for helping you remember everything you've learned. And during the test when you come across something you feel unsure of/don't know, talk to Him about it. I did that for my first calculus test and it worked. It was a review test covering all of pre-calc algebra and pre-calc trig. And with my teacher that isn't easy. She doesn't give you the nice middle of the road stuff. She expects you to be able to do the most challenging problems. I felt completely overwhelmed by the mass of info I had to know, and while I was sitting studying trying to figure how on earth I was going to remember all the sum & difference of cosine,sine, and tangent formulas, all the half & double angle identities, my unit circle, and everything else I stopped and wailed to (rather than asked) God what was I ever gonna do? I immeadiately felt no need to look at the sum & difference formulas again. But I still felt a need to look at the double and 1/2 angle identities. So I did. Come test day sure enough there were 4 out of 10 problems that I was lost on. One was a silly logarithm rule I forgot but God rememinded me how to prove to myself on a calcy. And the other 3 were ones I tried giving up on but after asking God about He reminded me of what He had me focus on in my review time. It took me ten minutes to come to a satisfactory answer on one of them. Another did use a double angle identity but all of them were asking things/ways of thinking about math that I'd never seen before. I felt satisfied when I turned my test in. I still wasn't certain I got those 3 odd ball questions right, but I didn't have a nagging worry about them. Wanna know what I got on the test? A 91%, in the end a 96% because she had to grade it on a 5point scale so everyone would at least pass. And I'm not in a class of dummies either. The test was just that hairy. And God is just that good. And it's not just for me my dears. Don't shake your head and say "yeah, I tried that and it didn't work for me." Be stubborn and tenacious; don't let Satan rob you of what God intends for you. There are so many little ways Satan tries to rob us of God's best for us. And the sad thing is how often he succeeds. Do you realize the Father's great love for you? HE LOVES YOU!!! Yes, I know you know that. But He loves you. He loves you. He loves you. He loves you. Have you seen The Passion? Everytime Jesus stood up, every lash He took, every drop of blood, was His "I love you! I love you! I'm living through this because I can't bear to see you in this pain. I love you! I love you!" And He has freed us from the curse having become a curse for us (Gal.3:13-14). All He asks in return is that we love Him, walk in His love, and keep the faith by walking in faith. We are more than overcomers through Him who loves us (Romans 8:31-39). Facts are facts but the truth is the Word of God. And if we'll speak the truth even in the face of facts that contradict it, those contradicting facts will come into alignment with the Word of God and the truth. When you become convinced of the Father's love for and towards you, you can become convinced and certain that what He has in store for you is inexpressibly good. And not just good to Him...He wants to fulfill your deepest desires, but like a good parent He won't until you're ready for them. He isn't withholding because He wants to. It's driving Him nuts to bless you beyond your wildest dreams. You just have to focus unequivocally on Him. Not because He's selfish, but because He wants to teach you and help you grow so you can receive from Him the wonderous things He has for you. :)...*sigh* There is so much in my heart about this. I pine for all my friends to grasp this, to see how important it is to focus on God. :) Above all to see how not-a-chore it is to focus on Him. Work, yes, but a chore? No. Walking in love is hard sometimes, but it gets easier.. and there is such joy and peace in it.
And as much as I'd like to continue... I must go to bed. God bless you my dears & sir. I pray that this takes hold in your spirits (Eph.1:15-20).
Buenos Noches mi amigo/as
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