In response to the lies in my head...
I was searching for the verse "Be still and know that I am God" from the book of Psalms... and I stumbled across today's verse of the day. Those words mean something. Its so beautiful. The uncertainty of this world is surpassed by the certainty of His Love. Why? Because in Proverbs 10:12b it says, Love overrides all sins. Because of His love He died for us. And he did it for us right?

Therefore, since Christ suffered in his body, arm yourselves also with the same attitude, because he who has suffered in his body is done with sin. As a result, he does not live the rest of his earthly life for evil human desires, but rather for the will of God. | 1 Peter 4:1-2 |

So since He died for us and rose again... Since He paid the price, we no longer belong to the devil. And we no longer have to live the way of the world. We no longer have to follow the worlds 'rules' to get through this life. We have a higher power to appeal to. A God that is alive, a God that listens, a God that answers.

For you have spent enough time in the past doing what pagans choose to do--living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry. They think it strange that you do not plunge with them into the same flood of dissipation, and they heap abuse on you. | 1 Peter 4:3-4 |

No surprise there. It says so in the bible so thats what we must come to expect. Ok maybe the people around you are nice enough not to actually abuse you. Not that they're pagans, but they give you a raised eyebrow and that questioning look. And you feel that they're just trying to 'accomodate you'. Same thing. They think it strange! But further down in 1 Peter 4:12 it says its blessed to be shamed for the name of Christ.

What do we have to give? If anything, we spread the love of God, His grace & mercy and His gift of Life. We also give ourselves. In service to Him so that He may be glorified through our thoughts, our words, our attitudes and actions. No purpose? Its when we believe that He is our Lord and saviour that our journey to finding our purpose begins! Its a progressive journey. The more we move in the right direction, the more is revealed to us. There's our hope and the promise to us. There's where our faith should be.

::: Verse of the Day :::
Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.
And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
| 1 Corinthians 13:8-13 |