Welcome everyone,
As some of you may know my name is Israel also known as H.B.(Hope Boy). I just wanted to take the time to welcome you into my life(which is a open book!).
I love to write, in fact I journal every day RELIGIOUSLY! But I struggled on whether or not I should open my life up to the public. Frankly, I'm far from perfect....A man who fights pride and insecurities amongst other things. So me doing this would be me opening myself up for all to see the real deal.....Me naked and bare just as I am before our Creator. Even as I wrote a blog about a GOD story recently I noticed my flesh began to rise up seeking to find significance in the comments of you all. I wonder who read it, what did they say etc etc etc. Well, GOD forbid that I find my significance, confidence or identity in anyone or anything else outside of HIM!!! Also, I saw pride trying to creep in as if I did anything in the story in the first place!!!!! Picture that!!!! Even if I did what is that??? Exactly! Nothing!!!!
Psalm 104 states 1 Praise the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, you are very great; you are clothed with splendor and majesty. 2 He wraps himself in light as with a garment; he stretches out the heavens like a tent 3 and lays the beams of his upper chambers on their waters. He makes the clouds his chariot and rides on the wings of the wind.
In light of this what can I or any of us for that matter be puffed up over? Seriously, if ten million people read my blogs and loved them how can I possibly be puffed up? Come on, I mean GOD wraps HIMSELF in light as if it was a robe!!! HE stretches out the heavens as if it were a tent!!! HE makes the clouds HIS chariots and rides on the wings of the wind!! Picture that...... I know.... you can't.....Our minds are too little and finite to grasp even a picture of it.. But in light of it really what can one be prideful for as if any of us could do any of these things.
But GOD even as Great and majestic as HE is loves little ol' me(and you) and cares for us. Really though, HE does! It's an amazing thing.....
Psalm 8:4 what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?
So brothers and sisters and everyones else welcome to my life which as 2 Corinthians 3:3 puts it is CHRISTS letter. "Your very lives are a letter that anyone can read by just looking at you. Christ himself wrote it—not with ink, but with God's living Spirit; not chiseled into stone, but carved into human lives—and we publish it."
Here goes....The good, bad and ugly......The highs and lows.........The victories and failures......All in the name of CHRIST.
GOD is dope!
Israel
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