I've wanted to start a blog for the longest time. There were so many angles that I could have gone with, so many things that I'm passionate about. But this past year of college, I've gone through a lot of hard things and learned a lot about how great my God is. I would be nothing without Him.
So He's led me to this blog. I am by no means perfect, and sometimes I might post about hard things that aren't fun to hear. I think that's beautiful though. God is glorified through our imperfections. He takes our mistakes and failures and uses them for good. As I discover about who He is, I want to write about it. I want to write about how He's daily changing me. I want to be emptied to be filled.
When I'm empty, I'm laying down everything that I want and I desire and turning to God and saying, "You're enough, fill me with who You are and empty me of who I am." When we are empty, God teaches us. When we're empty, we grow. When we're empty, we learn so much more about faith and grace. We are so much more trusting. We learn to let God lead.
I'm working on emptying myself every day. It's definitely not easy. I get in the way all of the time and fail so many times to just trust and let God lead. But as I discover more about who He is, I realize that I want to be empty and I want Him to fill me. It's the greatest joy in the world and it's when my life is most rewarding.
I hope that this blog can be a place where you can find encouragement and refocus. I pray that through my failings and through my discoveries, you might discover who God is and what He means to you. I hope that here you can find rest in how great our God is.
Here's the passage that has influenced me a lot this past year. It's also what lead me to choose this title. We are jars of clay, daily being emptied to be filled.
2 Corinthians 4: 7-12~ "But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that his life may also be revealed in our mortal body. So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you."
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