You Are My Passion

Oh man did I need this song today! I have been living in this negative, fearful mindset lately...so much so it started really digging into my heart and soul. I have so incredibly much to be thankful for yet I take all the good in my life and find some sort of negative to destroy all of it. It all started on Friday when I went to take a shower and saw mold growing in our shower. If you know me at all, you know I am extreme clean freak! Almost OCD! Well, I pretty much called Scott and told him there was no way I could live in a house where mold was growing. He kind of just laughed at me and said he would fix it when he got home. Then I started going around our beautiful house picking out everything I did not like about it. Pretty ungrateful huh!? Oh don't worry God convicted me shortly after. Then I got to thinking why are we as humans always looking for the next best thing or always having to have the best of the best? Why can't we be satisfied with the right now that God has provided? Especially in our generation we want the nicest cars, the biggest houses, the best furniture, etc. etc. And then I get stuck with the question: Is that really how God would want us to live? I don't believe God wants our focus on material things at all. He wants us to always be living for his will and always be glorifying him. He knows better than anyone that we fall short to follow him when we are soaked in the material things of the world. What would our world look like if we took the money God provides us and used it for something to glorify him rather than a new outfit, a fancy dinner, or an exotic vacation!? You get my drift... So in the midst of all the negative thoughts I opened my Bible to the Old Testament to read about God continuing to provide for the Israelites even when they were questioning in him. God provided just the right amount of food they needed to sustain. God never failed them.

This song reminds me of this. God will always provide. God will never fail us. As long as we are living to know him more and live for his will. Don't get so wrapped up in the material things of the world because in eternity none of this will matter. There is nothing on this earth more valuable or more beautiful the the treasures in heaven.

My strength in life is I am yours,
My soul delights because I am yours,
You will on earth is all I am living for!
Jesus I glorify, Jesus my love is yours
You are my hearts desire. I live to know you more.