I will lift my eyes

I love love love this song. I'm not a huge Bebo Normal fan (where in the world did he get THAT name?) but this song is awesome.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMoDA5gTlNQ 

 

God, my God, I cry out

Your beloved needs you now

God, be near, calm my fear

And take my doubt

 

Your kindness is what pulls me up

Your love is all that draws me in

 

I will lift my eyes

To the Maker of the mountains I can't climb

I will lift my eyes

To the Calmer of the oceans raging wild

I will lift my eyes

To the Healer of the hurt I hold inside

I will lift my eyes, lift my eyes

To you

 

God, my God, let mercy sing

A melody over me

And God, right here, all I bring

Is all of me

 

Your kindness is what pulls me up

Your love is all that draws me in

 

I will lift my eyes

To the Maker of the mountains I can't climb

I will lift my eyes

To the Calmer of the oceans raging wild

I will lift my eyes

To the Healer of the hurt I hold inside

I will lift my eyes, lift my eyes

To you

 

'Cause you were and you are and you will be forever

The loving I need to save me

'Cause you fashion the earth and you hold it together, God

So hold me now

 

I will lift my eyes

To the Maker of the mountains I can't climb

I will lift my eyes

To the Calmer of the oceans raging wild

I will lift my eyes

To the Healer of the hurt I hold inside
I will lift my eyes, lift my eyes

To you

I will lift my eyes, lift my eyes

To you

 

God, my God, I cry out

Your beloved needs you now

 

 

Awesome, right?

 

 

Leah

Let's get serious.

Disclaimer: If you are tired of reading my blogs about relationships and/or marriage, stop reading now.
Disclaimer #2: I am 22 and female and single, so this is basically always on my brain. I'm wired that way. Sorry.
Disclaimer #3: I'm done with disclaimers.


     Have you ever noticed that marriage is literally the ONLY thing in our lives we expect to just "happen" without any effort on our part? And if you *gasp* work toward it, you're *GASP* "desperate." Why IS that, anyway? Ok picture this:

     A guy is about to graduate from college, and is looking for a job. He says to a friend, "Yeah, I've been sending my resume out, I've applied for one position I really want, and I'm going to a job fair next week." His friend says, "You know, please don't take this the wrong way, but I think you're going to come across as desperate because of all this. I really think you need to stop looking and just trust God to make it happen for you when the time is right." Now if I'm the job-seeker here, I'd look at the other guy like he's crazy and walk away. And go to the job fair. Jobs don't just happen - you have to look for them. And I'm really starting to think it's the same way with getting married. Because here's the thing - all the people tell me to "wait on the Lord" are already married. Don't get me wrong, I'm not advocating rushing into something and being stupid about it. I'm just saying that sitting on your butt doesn't get you anywhere.
      Plus, people have this idea that being single is "a gift" or it's more "holy" than being married. After all, Jesus wasn't married, right? Yeah. To quote a book I'm reading, "Singleness is the kind of gift that makes us cringe and smile politely whole we desperately search for a gift receipt so we can return it." And if you want to know what Jesus thought about singleness, read Matthew 19. Singleness was the EXTREMELY small exception to the rule that people should be married. And since I don't have a ministry remotely close to Jesus or Paul, I'm VERY sure that I'm not part of the exception. And hey, God created them "male and female" and brought the woman to her man. God created marriage as the norm, not the option.
     Basically, I'm really over the world's perspective on marriage, and it really is time for the church to realize that they've been sucked in too and fix this. Unless you're one of the eunuchs Jesus described in Matthew 19, you should get married. This includes me. :) Thankfully. :) So the bottom line is that I'm done pretending that it doesn't matter to me if I get married or not. It does. I want that. And I think everyone else should stop pretending too. God made us this way on purpose! Let's get serious about this, and get married already:)



Leah

How many days?

I am registered for the HSA reunion and I. Am. SOPUMPED. And the speaker looks really awesome! I can't wait:D



Leah

Today my padre referred to me as an adult while we were on the phone. I cannot tell you how big of a deal that is for him. I feel like we are making progress.



Leah

Bring on the freckles.

I do not tan. I burn and then go back to pale, plus a few million more freckles every time. But! I figure if I get enough freckles it will LOOK like I'm tan! So I am off to the sunroof (which is the roof of one of the ladies' dorms here) to work on my freckle collection:) Woo:)




Leah

Blogging about nothing

Doesn't that make you want to read this post now? :/

     Basically nothing exciting is happening in my life, but that's ok with me because exciting usually = expensive and I'm not a fan of expensive. I have a cold again. I think the next time a sick person comes near me I will run away screaming. So not worth it to get sick. And I have two tests tomorrow that I'm really sick of studying for.
     My room needs to be cleaned. After the tests tomorrow it will happen. Except the vacuum always makes my room smell funny. Meh. Also tomorrow, I will be going to the payroll office to find out why my paycheck suddenly dropped $15. And getting tickets for me and Hope to see the opera - it's Faust and I am pumped for that. It's such a twisted, dark, interesting story. Also! The spring play is Pride and Prejudice! I am so excited!
     I realized today what a crazy idea it is for me and my younger sister to move to Texas. Not bad crazy, just crazy. We will be 12 hours from the nearest family member, which will be our other sister. We would have to fly to see our parents. That is crazy. AND! She isn't going to graduate till December 2012, which means I will be there for a whole semester all by me onesie! Scary much?! I think I might ask someone to come stay with me that semester or something. One of my bum friends with no life haha:) Living totally by myself sort of freaks me out. Although I have quite a few teacher friends who do it and love it. We shall see. I need a job first though so let's get crackin' praying about that.
     I have nothing else to say. And I should probably go study more. *gag* C'est la vie, I suppose.



Leah

Bible study notes, week 1.

     So about two weeks ago some friends and I started a Bible study on Sunday nights. We're studying through a Sam Gipp book called The Answer Book, which has 62 questions (and their scriptural and historical answers, obviously:D) about the King James Bible. We're also going through another book called Why the KJV is the Perfect Word of God but I don't remember who wrote that. It might be the same guy. It is just fascinating. I had been raised to be KJV-only, but no one ever explained why. Which is probably why people my age (in general) think the KJV is antiquated and silly. No one ever explained the "why" of the issue. So I am studying it out, with a couple other friends:) We read a chapter and look up/read the Scripture he references along the way. Here's a little of what we learned last night.

     The Answer Book:
Q: Shouldn't we be loyal only to the original manuscripts?

A: Only have as much respect for the originals as God does.

 

     Sounds reasonable, right? After all, our goal IS to be like Christ. But the thing is, God doesn't really care that much about the originals. Here's how we know. 1) When the 10 Commandments were written down in the Hebrew manuscript, they were not the originals! The originals were on the stone tablets that Moses broke in his little temper tantrum coming down off Mount Sinai. And then God made more, and Moses copied the words from those tablets into the Hebrew scroll. So are the 10 Commandments inspired or not? If you hold that only the true originals were inspired, the 10 Commandments in the original Hebrew text are not inspired. If that doesn't make you stop and go "Hm." I don't know what will. 2) In Jeremiah 36, God orchestrates (as in it was in His plan) the destruction of an "original" text which we had in the "original" OT manuscripts. In fact, the "original" was destroyed, Jeremiah wrote (penned, actually, since God wrote it) a second one, which was also destroyed, and then penned a third one, which is now Jeremiah 45-51. So even the "originals" weren't really the originals. So is Jeremiah 45-51 not inspired in the original manuscripts, then? Or is it possible that copies are also inspired?

 

     Why the KJV is the Perfect Word of God: Some people say that only the real originals were inspired and that copies, translations, etc. have errors and are not inspired. That is a lie. Of all the references in the Bible to "scripture" or "the word of the Lord" or "the word of God," not a single one refers to the originals. For something as important as God's word, wouldn't He have put something that significant in the Bible? It's obvious that God doesn't think a lot of the "originals." Otherwise we'd have them. But we don't. And if you don't believe in inspired translations, read II Kings chapter 6.

     Some may say that the actual words are not important in translation, but just the thought behind them, or the main idea. The glaringly obvious problem with this is that ideas and thoughts are expressed in words. The "words are not important-just the main idea" train of thoughtis called "dramatic equivalents." Every single word is important - this is called "formal equivalents." The KJV translators believed strongly in formal equivalents, and faithfully translated every word.

     The word of God is perfect and pure - we cannot do anything to it to improve it or make it clearer.

 

     "It is certainly not precarious in that it does not leave us at the mercy of our vindictive opponents. For believing in the perfection of a Book which we can hold in our hands is surely not as vulnerable as a professed faith in the perfection of some lost originals.
     The reason most critics are so vehement about the infallibility of the originals is because they know that the originals can NEVER be produced, so their faith can never be tried or upended." 

     - Sam Gipp, Th. D.

 

And our memory work for this week: II Tim. 3:16-17, Matt 22:27, 29 (definition of Scripture), Matt. 4:4, John 6:63, John 17:8.

 

 

Now. Feel free to comment if you can act like an adult. This is my blog and I am its dictator, meaning I reserve the right to delete your comments if you are being a twit. 

Thanks for reading:)

 

 

 

Leah