LOVE.

Our verses for the week are :

Romans 8:6 and 2 Corinthians 10:5

And our extended passage for the month is:

2 Corinthians 4

I feel like a lot of ETC TLs are in 1 Peter which is exciting! This morning I wanted to head back to 1 Peter 1 because last week it completely changed my life. Remembering the word of God and how is says prepare for action in 1 Peter 1:13, I spontaneously drove to the metroplex with Matt. You must understand that I would never just DO that. But God blessed me beautifully through that.

This morning verse 22 particularly stuck out to me. Ironically, my youth pastor talked about this verse this past sunday but it didn't HIT me until this morning. It states: "Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the heart." TNIV

Goodness, OBEYING the truth is hard enough but how much more difficult does it become if you don't even know WHAT the truth says?! Over and over again God continues to prove to me that KNOWING scripture and truly studying it and understanding it is HUGE. Now to be completely honest, in the past reading my Bible was just going through the motions, reading a chapter just so I could check it off. Now I'm BEGGING God to captivate me with His word and hold me accountable to it! I want to CRAVE to know more!! Isn't it exciting and fascinating to learn more about Him? Isn't reading our Bible one of the best ways to do that? An opportunity to MEET with Him and further my relationship with Him, daily sits on my night stand. All I have to DO is pick it up and delve deep!

Last summer, I realized that my purpose in life has NOTHING to do with what college I attended, what my major was or what my career will be. My purpose is not who I marry, how many kids I have or what church I attend. Last summer (actually at Super Summer in Khaki school) God revealed to me that my purpose is so incredibly simple: love Him and love people. How quickly I get wrapped up in myself, and I forget to love people with a SINCERE love, deep from the heart.

Ya'll with all my heart I pray that we SEE Him today and FEEL Him. I want nothing more than that!

Love,

Kaity