Learning versus living.....

I can learn all about the Grand Canyon and never really experience it personally. I can read books about it. I can look at pictures on the Internet and even watch videos of other people standing on the edge of the canyon or hiking down into it.

But if I only read and learn about it, I am still missing out on the experience. If I don't LIVE IT....then the knowledge stays in my mind and never makes it into my heart and soul.

Four years ago, Bryan and I experienced the beauty and wonder 

of the Grand Canyon. Words can't express the majesty of the 

Creator's hand completely on display there.

I think the difference between learning and living is 

also relevant to how we know God. 

We can learn about Him in the Bible. We can go to church and hear the 

pastor preach about love and forgiveness and surrender....

but unless we LIVE IT....we don't experience God.

In the letter to the people in Ephesus, the Apostle Paul writes...

"May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God. (Ephesians 3:19 NLT)"

May you EXPERIENCE the love of Christ and not just read about it...

...may the love of Christ burst deep within your soul so that 

you fully understand without a shadow of a doubt that 

JESUS LOVES YOU and that you need Him to truly live.

THEN...you will be made compete with all the fullness of life.....

....living life to the fullest....

 " I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full." (John 10:10 NIV)"

 There are parts of my life that are not as I expected them to be. 

Not what I had hoped for or dreamed about. 

But this life is not for me....it is for God. 

There is a reason I am on this earth right here, right now. 

I have a special purpose for living and so do you....

It is to KNOW GOD and make Him KNOWN.

To experience Him personally....not just read about Him.

I sang this words so many times as a child in church but I don't 

think I ever let them move from my mind to my heart until recently.....

"THANK THE LORD AND SING HIS PRAISE. TELL EVERYONE WHAT HE HAS DONE. LET EVERYONE WHO SEEKS THE LORD REJOICE AND PROUDLY BEAR HIS NAME. HE RECALLS HIS PROMISES AND LEADS HIS PEOPLE FORTH IN JOY. WITH SHOUTS OF THANKSGIVING, ALLELUIA. ALLELUIA"

My prayer is that you experience God in new ways this week....

....that you LIVE LIFE to the full....

...make Him known by your words & deeds and proudly bear His name!