There is such an overabundance of things to speak of, to contemplate, to delve into with childlike vigor. But oh, where to even begin? I want to weep, I want to pour my heart out to a steady and unflinching friend, I just want to shoot up in effortless growth. It is evening; though truly it is much more of a dark and deep night kind of evening. There is a slick silence in the air. My heart has been crying all week, it has been reaching out towards the skies, thirsting for peace, for clarity, for those strong upholding arms of perfection. My mind holds sweet glimpses of untold wonder, of heaven's rays warming my ready soul. Jesus is so great, yet how easy it is to forget the simple but awesome fact of His glory, His depth of love, His perfection, His majesty! Why are we so incredibly blind? Lately, I have glimpsed the soft simplicity of coming to Christ as I child; no, as a mere babe, without ambition or anything to offer Him. "I am getting desperately afraid of going to heaven for I have had the vision of the shame I shall suffer as I get my first glimpse of the Lord Jesus; His majesty, power and marvelous love for me, who treated Him so meanly and shabbily on earth, and acted as though I did Him a favor in serving Him! Now wonder God shall have to wipe away the tears off all faces, for we shall be broken-hearted when we see the depth of His love and the shallowness of ours." --C.T. Studd

“When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.” ― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost Of Discipleship- Jesus Christ has already done this work of victory. Upon that cross He placed every bit of my flesh. How can I but reckon this as fact; my sin has no dominion. Jesus must be Lord, not only Savior. Let us live in the truth and reality that our precious, might Lord Jesus made a way for us to walk in utter newness of life, in purity, and in sweet fellowship with Himself. What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

"God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also [in the likeness] of [his] resurrection: Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with [him], that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.For he that is dead is freed from sin.Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord." Romans 6:1-11