7 Year Anniversary

Today as I was reading my devotional book, A Woman After God's Own Heart, by Elizabeth George, she started the chapter off about her tenth spiritual birthday. This struck a question in my mind..."How old am I spiritually?" 

I immediately went to the first year I had ever been at Winter Youth Retreat. I was 13, and a junior staff. That was when I received the Holy Ghost. 

...seven years. Seven wonderful years serving the Lord on my own. And you know what? I wouldn't trade it for anything.

I can look back and see how God brought me through junior high...how my desires started changing, and how He changed my dad's heart about homeschooling. How He brought my family through the transition of losing everything we owned and gaining a wonderful new home and job for my dad. 

I love that God blessed me with the most amazing missions trip ever, and during that time closed the door to three colleges and opening the door to the one I'm in now...I can now see His tender hand and perfect plan while carrying me through the worst broken heart I've ever experienced. 

He now has me in the position where I feel completely free for the first time in a few years. He is doing things in my life I never thought would happen, and more importantly He is doing things in my soul that I cannot describe with words.

I look back...and all I see is God. 

Do you know what I think of when I think of God?...

A powerful storm...

The raging seas...

Psalm 93:4 The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.

A majestic lion...

"He's wild you know. Not like a tame lion." 

The Chronicles of Narnia; The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

Warm sun rays breaking through the trees...

I think of His power...and yet of His tenderness. I don't think I could ever fathom how much He really loves me. 

I hope you don't mind that I brag on Him...He deserves it. 

But alas, I have run out of words to describe my almighty savior....so for now, I'll just praise Him quietly in my heart. Where, even when I can't find the words to speak to Him...He hears me.