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Today I listened too 'The Motions' by Matthew West for like the millionth time. But this time I watched the Documentry with it. And now I'm asking, why? why do we feel WE need to do this, or why WE need to do that? I mean isn't it already done? Didn't Christ say 'It is finished'-John 19:27. I mean why? I ask this because WE don't have to do anything, rather it is CHRIST working through us. HE has DONE everything for us, and will DO everything to us, but to often we think, ME, MYSELF, and I! Why dont we just submit? I mean let Christ work through us? It is because, like the song says, we want to go through The Motions of the world, instead of living by Christ, and letting Christ live through us. He will give you the words, have faith. He will lead your feet, have faith. And he will clear your mind, have faith! Don't worry about messing up! Just let Christ work, and through us great works will be done. Realize what I said there, I did not say by us, i said THROUGH us do not get the two mixed up, by us means that we did it, THROUGH us means Christ did it.

Now does this mean your useless? OF COURSE NOT! Because (even though I said we had to do nothing) there is one thing we must do(for this part is easier when you think everything is done, finished)trust me. And trust me on this, Christ can do Miraculous things through us much more than if we did things ourselves. I had this situation with this one girl who was deep in drugs, alcohol, sex, depression, and defiance. What do you think I did? Well I will tell you what I didn't do, I didn't turn to Christ...I turned to my own selfish ambitions...She didn't stop, she actually fell deeper and deeper into it. Well after awhile of wrestling through this...God woke me up earlier than usual, and told me to open to the book of John and read from the beginning, and walk. Well I walked and read, barily even past a block away from my house, and only 6 verses in...tears cover my face...I cry out to God "I'VE HAD IT!!! PLEASE LORD SAVE HER!!! SAVE HER!!!! show her whats wrong...I know you have your own way and your own time of doing things...but I don't think I can be patient anymore...shes hurting, and only hurting worse and worse, please Lord save her..." I prayed for block after block, heck blocks after blocks...I cryed like I'd never cryed before. At the end I said "Lord, I place her in YOUR Hands". Now this isn't one of thoughs answers right away. But what it did accomplish is a calming of my heart, God reached down and touched me...calmed me. A month later i had my awnser(now I had other times of prayer) and God finally answered my prayer, once i put it into HIS HANDS. She turned from her old ways, started going to bible studies, and going back to church. It's not us, it's God, He uses us in great ways, and he doesn't want our ability to talk, sing, or even work well, he wants are willingness and guess what? Our faith in him, none of that other stuff matters, because 'It is Finished'.

Please don't take what I said wrong, it is clear that to give ourselves fully to God that we must be pure, and have clean hands, or he cannot use us, in other words we need Christ, we need him, our souls cry for him, and our hearts hunger for his everlasting food, and thirst for his never ending fountain. He is the only thing that gives us life, PRAISE GOD! Praise God for his Son, for His sacrafice, and for his everlasting Grace. Amen