ever try to wrap your head around infinitude?

So I'm in McDonalds again, but it's a different one this time. I didn't have intentions of doing an update, but   time allowed for one - so here it is.

Things that are new in my life since the last update:
     * - My girlfriend (Heather) has turned 21 (yesterday)!
     * - I've started waking up between 4:00 - 4:30 am during the week days (not enjoyable)
     * - I have successfully used a tool that costs more than my truck (truck is still worth more to me)
     * - Watched the movie "August Rush" for the first time
     * - I have been experiencing God's grace and mercy, which is new every day! (Lam. 3:22-23)

I will say this - I am so blessed to be in the family of God. I was commenting to Heather yesterday at the end of August Rush about the sense of euphoria and overwhelmingness that (SPOILER ALERT) August's parents must have felt when they A) had not seen each other since their one night stand 10 years earlier (not condoning this) or B) they are seeing, for the first time, their son (who is a musical genius). Now - I will stand by this, that that situation is probably incredibly overwhelming, I'm not going to try to discredit that at all. But this made me think today about situations where I've been overwhelmed with joy about things, are they temporal or Christ exalting?

How can I not be overwhelmed by the love of God? As God has continually been teaching me in the past few years about the depth and deplorable nature of my sin - his love is the most overwhelming (the good kind of overwhelming) thing that I can ever experience. God is immeasurable in all of his aspects, this is what infinitude means. Therefore, if God is infinitely holy, then my sin is infinitely deplorable and disgusting. That being established, the infinite holiness of God and the infinite offensiveness of my sin must be reconciled or I will be infinitely separated from God! Praise the Lord for the infinite beauty of the Gospel. I have been redeemed and am eternally secure in the eyes of my Maker  because of the eternally satisfying sacrifice of the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ! Even as I write this, I am overwhelmed with joy and at a loss for words - we cannot even begin to describe the beauty of the Gospel!


I hope that this encourages you, as I have been encouraged by meditating on it. 

in keeping with tradition

In keeping with the not-so-current yet still current trend of not writing/updating my blog in forever, I thought that I would do just that tonight! I hope that this update finds everyone doing well. It finds me sitting in a booth in a McDonald's by myself mooching free Internet for the low price of the large coffee that I bought an hour ago. I didn't really have intentions of coming up here to write a blog entry, but when the Internet keeps going out every time I'm halfway through doing something else...I thought I might as well go ahead and do this. 

This entry finds me with such a longing heart. Here lately I have truly had the mind-set and heart-set that this world is not my home at all. I feel so out of place most days. I'm so ready to see my all-powerful Father in heaven. I just want to be where He is. I cannot wait for the day that I'm called home to be with Him.

Here lately I've been going through the book of Deuteronomy and have been learning so much about God's great providence and the fact that his love is so different from the way that I'm even able to love. He is showing me the grandeur of His greatness on a day in and day out basis. I just wanted to write on here to let folks now that I am, in fact, still alive. 

I hope that this update finds you doing well and that it may possibly encourage you to seek the Lord with more of your heart. Believer, realize that this world is not your home! May you be filled with a heart of longing to be in the presence of the throne-room of the Almighty One! I am praying for those of you who may read this blog entry - that all of us together may "press on to know the Lord" (Hosea 6:3). He is good and worthy of our lives…which is still an offering to small.