Psalm 34

I found this passage to be so encouraging this morning and I wanted to share it with y'all. It was a great reminder to me that God is the only thing I need to experience true fulfillment. Hope everyone has a blessed Thursday! "Taste and see that the Lord is good." :)

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Psalm 34

New International Version (NIV)

    Of David. When he pretended to be insane before Abimelek, who drove him away, and he left. ¹ I will extol the LORD at all times;
   his praise will always be on my lips.
² I will glory in the LORD;
   let the afflicted hear and rejoice.
³ Glorify the LORD with me;
   let us exalt his name together.
 ⁴ I sought the LORD, and he answered me;
   he delivered me from all my fears.
⁵ Those who look to him are radiant;
   their faces are never covered with shame.
⁶ This poor man called, and the LORD heard him;
   he saved him out of all his troubles.
⁷ The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear him,
   and he delivers them.
 ⁸ Taste and see that the LORD is good;
   blessed is the one who takes refuge in him.
⁹ Fear the LORD, you his holy people,
   for those who fear him lack nothing.
¹⁰ The lions may grow weak and hungry,
   but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.
¹¹ Come, my children, listen to me;
   I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
¹² Whoever of you loves life
   and desires to see many good days,
¹³ keep your tongue from evil
   and your lips from telling lies.
¹⁴ Turn from evil and do good;
   seek peace and pursue it.
 ¹⁵ The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous,
   and his ears are attentive to their cry;
¹⁶ but the face of the LORD is against those who do evil,
   to blot out their name from the earth.
 ¹⁷ The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears them;
   he delivers them from all their troubles.
¹⁸ The LORD is close to the brokenhearted
   and saves those who are crushed in spirit.
 ¹⁹ The righteous person may have many troubles,
   but the LORD delivers him from them all;
²⁰ he protects all his bones,
   not one of them will be broken.
 ²¹ Evil will slay the wicked;
   the foes of the righteous will be condemned.
²² The LORD will rescue his servants;
   no one who takes refuge in him will be condemned.

It's been too long my friends...

Well, I have to admit I didn't even realize it had been over a month since my last post! I'd have to say the past month and some change has been wonderful. I got to spend time with my family at the lake and the beach, got to Ikea for the first time, play corn hole for the first time, go to Lilly's Pizza with Jocelyn and Olivia, move into school a week early, reunite with some great friends, attend a Matt Papa concert, all while experiencing God's goodness in news ways every day.

As I sit here trying to put things into words, I keep rewriting, backspacing, and scratching my head because I so badly want to put into words what God has done in my heart even just over the course of the past month. All I know to say is that my relationship with Him is turning more into a love story than a set of rules to follow. This summer, He really showed me that there has often been times in my life when I did things because I knew they were the right thing to do not because I was compelled by His love and that growing in Him doesn't start with behavioral changes but heart changes. Even though I cannot comprehend the full measure of His love, the more I realize how sinful I am, the more I realize how much I need him to sustain me every day and how selfless He is to love, want, and die for me. There is so much freedom in knowing there is nothing I could do that would make Him love me more or  less and that I serve Him to say "thank you" instead of trying to win His approval. While this is something I have known and believed ever since I accepted His gift of Salvation, He has certainly stamped this truth on my heart over the past months and I just want to fall in love with Him more.

"For Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died." 2 Corinthians 5:14