My Initial thoughts, which caused me to create this blog.

How can I help but be overjoyed in everything. I have been given LIFE from Jesus. He died for me to have life. That life includes everything I am; All that I do, and undertake. Every breath I breathe, every step I take, every time I eat, or pray, or watch a movie, or sleep, I do solely because He died for me, and rescued me from sin. Every happy or sad moment in my life is a gift He gave to me on the cross. He knew of all my future experiences, good and evil, and chose me despite myself, not because of myself.

He is my propitiation, my rescuer, the only true lover of my soul, and the sole reason for being. He deserves glory in EVERY action I take, and every word I speak, from the smallest thought, to the biggest life changing event. He has earned that glory, and me giving it to him is only fair. He has earned those wages, unlike the gift of grace I received. (Romans 4:4-5)

His glory is the only possible outcome of my life because it is in fact his life. Anything less is a waste, and I will have none of it. God help me to think of your glory in everything that I do, from the smallest to the largest. I Corinthians 10:31 has a new found meaning for me. I have finally started to grasp that when Paul said “Whatever you do, do all to the glory of God,” he wasn’t using some type of figurative language. He was specifically laying out our mandate, and Christ’s deserved wage for His death on the cross. Though I knew this in my head, I don't know that I truly started to understand it in my heart until very recently.

As John Piper so eloquently puts it, "Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain."

In Christ,
Kyle