Immeasurably More

Well, it's been about 2 years since I blogged anything. Surprise! I'm back! 

Okay okay... so I'll be honest. I could not for the life of me remember my password to this thing. So mayyyybe I would have been back sooner if I had..... but who knows. 

Today I took down my picture wall, which was littered with photos of middle school and high school. 

Embarrassing, really. I'm not really sure how I managed to have real human friends during those times, because I was a hot mess. Like, zero cuteness was happening then. 

I should have done this sooner. This wall was strewn with my past. The old me. I would walk by this thing every day and think.... Man.... things have changed. I have changed. Who are these people again? ....gross. 

Since I stopped blogging the last time, the Lord has constantly been renewing me and transforming me more into his likeness. I'm astonished to look back and see who I used to be... but I stand amazed at how far I've come! 

If you had told me in middle school that this year I would be going on a mission trip to Guatemala, being on staff at FUGE, and STILL in college, I would have laughed at you. If you had told me that Jesus would be the most important thing in my life, I would have rolled my eyes at you. But it IS HAPPENING!!!!! 

My story is a story of transfiguration. I used to be dead... not breathing. Asleep. Cold. Unfeeling. Dark. BUT GOD has taken me out of the grime and mud, set my feet on a rock, breathed his LIFE into me and now I am ALIVE! Breathing! Jumping for joy and singing praises. Jesus is my Rock, my Sustainer, my ever present Comfort in trouble. He has my trust. 

And I believe that he has the power to do IMMEASURABLY MORE in my life than he already has. If he's transformed me this much.... I tremble in excitement to think what he will do in the next 5, 10, 20 years! 

I also believe that he can do this in your life. Do you? Are you putting God in a box, and thinking he can be limited by your limitations? I encourage you to put your trust in Him. He can take ordinary people and let them do extraordinary things, and his power is inside of you!!

"Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, unto HIM be GLORY in the Church and in Christ Jesus throughout ALL generations for ever, and ever!" -Ephesians 3:20-21

Amen.