Excited?

Have you ever bought a brand new toy or piece of equipment and gotten really excited about it for about a week and then just abandoned it in your closet only to pull it out on special occasions for your friends because it's still cool you just lost excitement for it? I'm afraid that this whole scenario might happen with this blog. Right now I'm so excited about this blog because it is so brand new to me to have a place where I can publicly post my thoughts and opinions, but in a week I might forget all about it until a month later I'll remember about it or get the urge to write and need to spill something completely arbitrary onto this website that only I'll get so I'll end up being the only person who reads this blog. See I'm so excited about this whole thing it's all I can write about so far. Let's change that right now.

I'll start the change with something simple. Something not too deep, but not shallow enough to be boring. My favorite Bible verse is Luke 12:32. "Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father has chosen gladly to give you the kingdom." (NASB)


As a girl I like the idea of God thinking of all of his children as little sheep because it's cute and I like that even though we get stressed out and we sin and we think bad stuff happens to us all the time and we feel like God is always testing us, God actually wants us to have everything in His kingdom (aka Heaven). It's sometimes easy to think (at least for me) that God's mad a lot of times because we mess up so much, so we have to tip-toe around making sure not to do anything bad, but the way salvation actually works is not only that Jesus died for our sins so we don't have to go to hell, but God wants us to have everything. By everything I'm not talking about silly material things on this earth, but He wants to give us Heaven, and eternal life, and beauty beyond anything we can imagine. I think that will be pretty awesome.