The Finishers by Roger Hershey and Jason Weimer

I started reading the book I bought from Epic Conference last night and I think its pretty insightful from what I got out of the first chapter. There was this paragraph that stood out to me and this is what it said:

" 'There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.' It's an enormous black hole - the unquenchable longing for significance and human glory swallows all our activities, our gifts, our energy, and leaves nothing but emptiness behind."

Its true that us humans have this desire to find our worth and glorify ourselves in worldly ways. Some people may find it through the amount of boyfriends/girlfriends they have, others might think money is the way to satisfy this black hole. The problem is, by using worldly things to fill this hole, the hole will never be filled and it will only be like throwing everything youre living for in a black hole. People and things will always fail you because they are not perfect. We can't let these imperfect things show us how worthy we are as human beings. Success will fade, money can be lost; all of these things are simply temporary. But God is eternal. By filling this hole with God, its like drinking an unlimited amount of ice cold water after 40days of walking through a desert. God can fill this hole and the satisfaction and happiness you will feel after is a feeling only those who had experienced it will understand. its an indescribable amazing feeling to understand that we are worthy because God has made us worthy.

And i guess my point is, i want people to understand this indescribable feeling because i know what it feels like to go from feeling empty to feeling full inside and this amount of happiness that i can guarantee nothing you have ever experienced will amount to the happiness God's love can give you. It's in my prayers that whoever it is that might just randomly end up on this blog will feel a glimpse of this happiness that i have from God and that they too will one day feel the same happiness i do.

do you ever get that feeling of extreme happiness when you take a step back and look at the beauty of this world? i remember so vividly the many times i look up from have a long day and noticing how beautiful life is. God made the clouds perfectly puffy and the sky is nice and blue. the trees have that nice tint of green and everything just blends in perfectly. birds are chirping, airplanes are flying. perfection and beauty. sometimes its not even a nice spring day like that, sometimes the sky is gray and everything is foggy and damp but this sense of beauty still shines through. you just gotta really notice it. the sun shining behind those dark gray clouds giving it a strange glow. the trees swaying in the wind and rain. the fog making everything look soft as if youre walking within a cloud. idk how to describe it but these are God's fingerprints, he created it all. i usually only notice on a bad day (which really shouldnt be the case) but everywhere, everyday its there. we just gotta take a step back and admire it all. this world may be broken but his beauty shines through. at night i like to look up at the stars, it brings me a weird sense of joy. its a part of God's wonderful and beautiful creation. i kinda feel like the stars look better back at home but ehhh it doesnt matter lol they all the same ;] my point is, even these every day little things we take for granted are blessings. God is here, right there with you. he fills my heart with joy and i hope he does the same for you :]

What is the Definition of Love?

Love is to nourish someone to maturity (emotionally, physically, spiritually and mentally) and to cherish them by protecting them from anything that keeps them from getting nourished and providing them with the nourishment.

- Josh McDowell

We are fearfully and wonderfully made.

I just watched this clip about how a girl approached her dad after finding out she's pregnant. Her reason for having sex was because she felt like she wasn't pretty enough or skinny enough to be extraordinary but for one night she wanted to feel special. That got me thinking, is that why underage girls put themselves in a position where they harm themselves, body and mind, in such a way? The media tells us we're not pretty enough, we're not skinny enough and to some people (like me) we're not tall enough..no matter what we look like, we're never enough. But that's so wrong. Since when did people have the right to tell us whether we are worthy or not? Half of the people who created these "standards" barely meet them at all and yet we allow them to tell us what makes us beautiful. Psalm 139:14 says "we are fearfully and wonderfully made." God created us to be wonderful, he made us beautiful and not by the society's standards but by his standards. What people/society think of you really doesn't matter because they didn't create you. God made you amazing, he made you beautiful. And this doesn't just apply to girls out there but to guys as well. A guy doesn't have to be tall dark and buff to be outstanding nor does his worth come from the amount of girls he's been with. God made us all to be outstanding people, he created us to be amazing in our own ways. And that, is where our worth comes from.