Having a good perspective...part 1

I feel that I am learning a lot at this point in my journey with God and walking the life that He has given me.

I most certaintly think that I can add more to this blog entry, but I think that I will leave it to part 2; right now I am focused on a few lessons. Once I learn those lessons, I can progress to another life lesson.

One of my favorite songs comes from the newest Hillsong United CD: Across the Earth, called "Soon" written by Brooke Ligertwood. These are the lyrics:

Soon and very soon
My King is coming
Robed in righteousness
And crowned with love
When I see Him
I shall be made like Him
Soon and very soon

Soon and very soon
I'll be going To the place
He has prepared for me
There my sin erased
My shame forgotten
Soon and very soon

I will be with the One I love
With unveiled face I'll see Him
There my soul will be satisfied
Soon and very soon

Soon and very soon
See the procession
The angels and the elders
'Round the throne At His feet I
'll lay my crowns My worship
Soon and very soon

Though I have not seen Him
My heart knows Him well
Jesus Christ the Lamb
The Lord of heaven

I don't ever want to think that this life will last forever. In fact it won't, only God know's when I will be taken from this earth. Also, as I look at world news, it's no secret that we live in very unpredictable times. Wars, famine, natural disasters and economic uncertainty face our world.

This song gives me a sense of hope that one day I will be with my Lord and will be at peace and in bliss. With all of this in mind, I have recently been pondering how best to live my life. God give me the wisdom to know how best to live. Give me the wisdom to know how best to spend my time, resources and energy. God give me the wisdom to know how to live a life that is pleasing to you.

Love...

There is a passage that I have been meditating on for the past week. This passage is commonly read at weddings. Yet this verse is not just about love between a married couple but love between friends, family and in the church.

1 Corinthians 13: 1-13

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

God help me to become a more loving person; change my heart.