i have met with God

Thanks to Donald Miller, the author of Blue Like Jazz, for allowing God to use him so powerfully through his book.  This is what God revealed to me, what He told me, what He is changing about me while I worked myself through Don's book.

I have met with God so intimately, so real, today, and yet, I didn’t hear a word, nor did I utter a single word!

How sweet it the name of Jesus on my lips! I am completely intoxicated with His overwhelming love.  Praise be to God for opening my eyes, for stripping away my heart until bareness is left.  Now He can begin to mold me.  Now he can begin to transform me.  This is where the freedom commences; the freedom of brokenness.  I had to be broken of myself, my self-addition, before God could use me any further.  Sure, I might have been effective at times, but how much more effective, and even more so, how much better is my effectiveness for Christ now that it is driven by Christ and founded and consumed in Christ and His love and His way of Life? 

And yet, where does it all begin?  How did I get to this life-transforming, earth-shattering truth? The transformation from self-addiction, to Jesus-addiction.  This is where it starts.  What a wretched human I am.  I am drawn to darkness, to sin, to selfishness.  Since the fall of man and Adam, we are born into the original sin.  It’s our nature to not do or be good.  And on top of that, Satan takes advantage of it, and full advantage at that.  I am selfish, extremely selfish.  I am wrapped in a world of me. It revolves around me. It stars me.  It is me.  And you would think that it is all fine and dandy, and hey, I get my way right? What’s not to love?  Here is the catch: everything! It’s miserable.  I am so self-conscience so caught up in worrying about myself that I am miserable.  I am negative. I am frustrated.  I am depressed.  Here is where the rest of the sin originates: within myself.  I am hateful because of this, judgmental because of this, prideful because of this, impatient because of this, critical because of this.  This is the overflow of my heart.  My thoughts and my actions attest to this disgusting disease of self-addiction that consumes my soul.  And here is the worst part of and for self-addiction: I can’t rescue myself.  I can’t fix it and make it O.K.  I can’t pull myself out of this pit of muck and mire.  I can’t do it by myself.  So, there is NO WAY that it can be all about me if I want to get out of this trap of despair.

So am I willing to let it go?  Willing to release myself of this addiction that is worse than drugs or alcohol or money or anything else? Am I ready to give it up? Yes! Yes I am! I am ready to breathe, to be free, to live with no worries or fear.  Then how?  This is where the Jesus-addiction begins.  This is where life becomes real and meaningful.  When I start living for my Lord and Savior is when I start truly living.  So where to begin? With confession which leads to rescue and redemption.  So I am sorry, for everything. I am sorry to both my God and to the world.  I am judgmental about people.  I withhold love, the love so freely given to me.  I dole it out based on my approval for people, or when I feel like, not unconditionally, not all the time.  I am sorry for using the cross as a power tool.  I have taken advantage of the church for leadership opportunities not because of humility and love, but because of power and a need for control.  I am sorry for being selfish, for not wanting to move out of my comfort zone.  I am sorry my short temper when things don’t go my way, even a little bit.  I am sorry for my underlying motives in friendships and relationships.  I am sorry for my hidden agendas in conversations and questions.  I am sorry for my passive aggressiveness which ultimately accomplishes nothing except for strife and further anger.  I am sorry for my apathy about situations.  I am sorry for my lack of follow-through with relationships and people. I am sorry for my negative attitude, for my critical spirit.  I am sorry for my harsh, sharp words to others, especially when they have gone against me. I am sorry for my retaliations to others.  I am sorry for my lack of passion for helping the poor and homeless.  I am sorry for not following Your commands, for not living as You have lived.  I am sorry for peddling Your Gospel as though it is something to sell.  I am sorry passing up opportunities to talk about You or just to get to know someone because I didn’t want to be bothered.   This list goes on and on.  I am prone to darkness, prone to wander. I can’t save myself.  I can’t heal my hurt.  This is what I have learned: nothing is going to change until I change the person I see in the mirror. 

But how do I do this? I can’t do it through self-discipline.  I have tried. It may be possible for short period, for a stretch, but ultimately, and for good? Absolutely not.  I don’t have the strength, or the will power. On top of that, all those rules, those regulations, it is so burdening, not freeing, not good and relaxing.  It is worse than before. All it is is going through the motions of a self-righteous, self-disciplined life.  It is impossible to love the things that Jesus loved and wants us to love, the things of Heaven, without His help.  I can’t do it on my own.  My nature is darkness, but His nature is light.  But here is the best part: I have a rescuer.  Jesus will save me.  Better yet, Jesus has saved me.  He has reached down, out of heaven, and pulled me out of this darkness.  He has put me in His light.  Praise be to God! I can see! I was so blind because of the darkness, but now I can see! He has forgiven me for all that I have done. I am not above His grace, not above His charity.  I am not too proud to accept His unconditional love for me. I am humbling myself to accept all He has to offer me.  When I begin to receive His love, truly receive His unconditional love, I begin to fall in love with Him and in turn, I will have the fuel I need to obey Him and His commands.  And that starts today, right now, in this very moment. This is where God changes my character with the passion of His love! I am ready to be loved by my Creator.  I am ready to be wooed and swept off my feet and away into the life He has had for me since the beginning of time!

So it is time for a change.  I am ready to change.  I am ready to change from a passive, relaxed, lazy Christian into a passionate Christian, a Christian who truly lives for Christ, a Christian whose belief is what she does, not what she says.  I am ready to be a practicing Christian.  I am ready to move from the Christian who uses Jesus like a whore.  I have put up false gods and idols because God doesn’t bend to jump through my hoops, and this frustrates me.  Now it is going to change.  By the mighty hand of God it is going to change.  It is now time for my faith to be about spirituality, not pride, ego, and self-image.  I have believed in Him. I have professed Him. Now it is time that I follow Him with my life, with my whole heart.  I am here on earth as a temporary thing.  I am tempted and will be tempted by satan.  But, I am here, being preserved to tell and show those who don’t know about our Savior, our Redeemer, our Father.  The world is fallen.  It can’t save itself.  I am here to shout out to those needing to be rescued, “Follow me and trust God.”  “Follow me as I follow the example of Christ.” This is why I will be able to go through each day not knowing the next step, the next turn.  I can go because my God leads me and has ALREADY rescued me.  What else do I have to fear?  God has reached out.  He has rescued me.  Now I stand here, ready to trust, beginning to trust God and learning to live by His precepts that I might be preserved to bring Him glory and fulfill His purpose alone. 

Now that I know this, it is time for me to believe, to truly believe.  Not just to talk about it, or think about it, but instead to act about it.  Satan has tried, and to some success for sure, to get us to believe meaningless things for meaningless reason, or even more, to believe meaningful things for meaningless reasons.  My belief has become what is cool, what is neat, what others think.  But it can’t be that. True belief in Christ isn’t that shallow and can NEVER be that shallow.  True and deep belief comes with responsibility. It comes with a responsibility to act, to move, to obey.  True and deep belief costs something.  That is hard for me.  That is hard for my selfish, self-addicted nature.  True, deep belief is about accepting both the truth and the responsibility that comes with it.  Passion is great, but what is it when it is fueled by nothingness.  When true belief is acquired, passion, meaningful and Spirit-driven passion, will follow naturally.  It will be second nature.  You can’t have true passion without true belief in something.  In my case, my true belief is in Christ Jesus, in how He rescued me, in how He leads me, in how He loves me, and in how He moves me.  It is time to get back to the basics.  It is time to get simple.  What I believe is not what I say; what I believe is what I do.  End of story, no questions asked.  It is time to start living like a Christian, a Christ-follower, a “little Christ”.  It can be easy to die for something, to soak up the glory, but it is time to live! I have life and I have it to the fullest thanks to my Savior, Redeemer, and Rescuer Jesus Christ.  So now it is time to live it like I have it.  It is time to live like I believe it. It is time to show people that Jesus loves them and that He is important.  That is only going to happen if I step, act out, and obey God’s commands.  So forgive me for having such an exclusive hold on the truth.  Forgive me for holding back.  It is time to lead a missional life. I want to live the change.  It’s time for a change. 

How does this change begin for me? For me, it is with love.  It begins with how I love others, myself, and God.  Love is not a commodity.  It is free. It is a gift.  It is a gift we have been given that we must receive.  It is a gift that we must give.  It is a gift that comes from God.  Everyone is priceless in His eyes.  We are not the judge of whom we want to love and whom we don’t want to love.  I have to love everyone.  I have to love the things of God.  That is everything.  Every man, every woman, every child, every person.  This is why I am here, to love. To love like Jesus loved and still loves.  The only way I will be able to share Jesus is if people know that I love them, that I like them.  Then my belief will matter to them.  But not until then will it matter.   The difference starts in me, in my freedom, not with others.  If I can’t change myself then I surely cannot change other people.  Change, true and lasting change, is started, carried out, and finished by God and God alone.  This is why we ask God to change our hearts.  Only He can do it.  Only He can truly do it and it will last.  My part in the change is to love.  It is to show the love of God and its transforming power.  It is to show that I care and will always approve because my Father has always approved.  It is to nurture in a physical way so that spirituality can be fostered.  It is time to love with actions and in truth.  It is time to love everyone, regardless of their beliefs, their loves, their way of life, their body, their style, their habits, their vices.  It is time to love people just because they exist, not for any other reason, or any hidden reason. It is time to love unconditionally.  It is time to love through Christ and from God. 

As for myself, it is time that I love myself.  It is time for me to stop cutting myself down.  It is time to stop thinking negative and destructive thoughts.  This is not how I would love others.  Love your neighbor as yourself.  I must love myself with love and affirmation that comes from God above.  Not from the world, or from satan, but purely from the throne of God.  It is not O.K. to beat myself up.  It is not wrong for me to receive love both from God and from others.  I would be a hypocrite if that was true.  If I want to give love, then I need to receive love, too.  The more I accept the love God has for me, the more I will change into His likeness.  The more I drink of His love, the more I will be transformed. 

Lastly, I will love God. I will be in awe of Him.  I will not reduce Him to an equation on a page, a list of rules on a poster, or a bunch of words in a book.  I will stand in absolute awe and wonder that He is who He is, that He has done what He has done, and for me!  I will not try to chart Him on a map or try to figure out where He is going.  None of that matters.  I may have questions, but I don’t need answers.  I have a peace, a peace that surpasses all understanding.  I have a peace that penetrates to my soul and allows my heart to rest fully within God.  This life, this real relationship with Jesus is mystical, magical, and spiritual.  It sweeps me off my feet into a place of love, hope, and peace.  The more I am lost in Him, the more I am able to worship Him.  I am free.  I don’t need to know anything except that God loved me so much that He sent His only Son to rescue me from a fallen world.  I am ready to fear God, to tremble in His presence because of Him majesty, awe, and wonder.  This is where true belief, true love, and true worship begins.   I am free.  I am free to breathe, to live, to act.  I am free to sing. Free to sing a song of hope, of life, of beauty, of truth, and mostly, a song of love. Praise be to God, the One and Only!

my love to you in Christ Jesus,

ashleigh

the stand

this sums up the cry of my heart,
a heart longing to be in complete unity with her Father.
i have no other choice after all that my Lord has done for me,
but to stand completely abandoned and surrendered to Him,
gladly,
joyfully,
and most importantly,
whole-heartedly...

"You stood before creation
eternity within Your hand
You spoke the earth into motion
my soul now to stand

You stood before my failure
carried the Cross for my shame
my sin weighed upon Your shoulders
my soul now to stand

so what can i say,
what can i do,
but offer this heart, o God,
completely to You?

so i'll walk upon salvation
Your Spirit alive in me
this life to declare Your promise
my soul now to stand

so what can i say,
what can i do,
but offer this heart ,o God,
completely to You?

so i’ll stand
with arms high and heart abandoned
in awe of the One who gave it all

so i’ll stand
my soul Lord to You surrendered
all i am is Yours"

- "the stand" by hillsong united (united we stand cd)

my love to you in Christ Jesus,
ashleigh

love is a many splendored thing

below you will find the devotion which i gave for 

my first formal chapter as chaplain of delta alpha chi.

Love

       With the week of Valentine’s Day drawing to a close, the thought of love has been on our minds quite a lot this week. Whether you walked down the Valentine’s Day aisle at Walmart, saw the vendors set up on the side of the road, or received a valentine, you were thinking about love. But what is love? Just how do we define this small, but powerful four-letter word? According to Wikipedia, love is defined as everything from a form of deep affection, pleasure, or devotion, to a score in tennis. In fact there is even an article on how to define love and how to love. As humans, it is the most powerful and passionate emotion we encounter. We all desire to experience love, and in return, to express love. We throw this word around everyday loving anything from God to parents, friends, and boys to food, bands, clothing styles, and movies. We have diluted the definition of love as a society and forgotten the extent of God’s love and commands for us to love. So, now the real question is, what it love for us as Christians? Love is not a new concept, it is an eternal concept. It is the fundamental part of what it means to follow Jesus Christ. There are three ways love impacts us as Christians.


       The first is God’s love for us. His deep, passionate, and unconditional love for us is what has provided our means of salvation. John 3:16 tells us that “God so LOVED the world that he gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.” Not that God so pitied the world, or thought the world needed help, or even liked the world, but that He SO DEEPLY LOVED the world that He would send His son to give His all for us, regardless if we would accept it or not.
       1 John 3:16 actually defines love for us. It says “This is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.” This scripture tells us what kind of love God has for us, an unconditional love – not that we loved God, but that He loved us… It is a love that will continue in spite of how we live, what we do, or if we even give it back to Him. God has loved us from before we even knew of Him, from the beginning of time. 1 John goes on to tell us that the ultimate definition of love is God Himself. Twice in the fourth chapter of 1 John it states that “God is love.” The very essence of his being is love. This is why Paul writes in 1 Corinthians that “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always perseveres. Love never fails.” This is our God and this is His love for us.
       Lastly, we can never be separated from this unconditional love of Christ. Paul tells us in Romans 8:35, 37-39, “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” So not only are we unconditionally loved by a God that the very essence of His being is LOVE, we will never ever be separated from this love. We are able to soak in it for all of eternity.


       Our God, as He unconditionally loves us, also deeply desires to be loved by His creation. We serve a jealous God who wants our love, devotion, and affection. This the second way we experience divine love, our love for God. We are commanded by Him to love Him. In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus is explaining to the Pharisees the greatest commandment of all, to “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment.” – Matthew 22:37-38. The Gospel of Mark gives a second account of this saying “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.” Once we begin to do this, to LOVE our Lord with our entire being, everything else starts to fall in to place and make sense. Jesus tells us that the all the law hangs on this commandment and the command to love your neighbor. So, if we truly love our Lord with all of our heart, mind, soul, and strength, it become easy to follow His commands for they will bring joy to our heart and soul. For the commands and burdens of our Lord are light and easy. Colossians 5:6 says that “For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.” Our faith in God is expressed in our love for Him. By loving God we know God. 1 John 4:8 warns us that “Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.” 1 Corinthians 7:3 tells us that “the man who loves God is known by God.” "God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like Him.” states 1 John 4:16b-17. Now the question becomes how do we show God our love?


       As Christians we have become carriers of the Spirit of God. 1 John 4:13 tells us that “we know that we live in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.” Because of His Spirit living in us, we are called to love as God has LOVED us, UNCONDITIONALLY. 1 John 4:11 commands us that “since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.” By loving one another God lives in us and His love is made complete in us. 1 John 4:12 affirms this: “No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and His love is made complete in us.” Jesus tells us that the second greatest commandment, which is first to only loving God, is “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Jesus also says in John 14:15 that if we love Him, we will obey what He commands. He goes on to say in Chapter 15 “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love. Just as I have obeyed my Father’s commands and remained in His love. I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends” and down in verse 17, “This is my command: Love each other.”
       So this is our call, our mission, to love one another, to lay our lives down for each other, just as Christ gave His all for us. This how the world will know we are Christians, followers of the great King Jesus, by us loving each other. John 13:34-35 says, “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” We will be known as Christ-followers if we love others around us, regardless if they are our sister, our family, our friend, or even our enemy. We are commanded to love as Christ loved us, unconditionally. 1 Peter 4:8 tells that “Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.” Loving your family and friends seems pretty easy, but we are called to love everyone, not just those we already like. You may wonder where you are going to find love for the person who has betrayed you or hurt you, for the person who is different from you or your friends, or for the person who hates you. You know that you can’t do it on your own accord. But that is where our God steps in, as carriers of His Spirit we have His love to give. 1 John 4:7 says “let us love one another, for love comes from God.” This unconditional and unending love comes from our God above. It is divine and unreserved and flows through us because of who we are in Christ Jesus. So we are equipped with the divine ability to do everything in love, as Paul commands us to in 1 Corinthians 16:14. So let us love everyone in every way and in everything we do. 1 John 3:18 tells us how to love, “Let us not love with words or tongue, but with actions and in truth.” Whether it be spending an day with a friend who is having a rough time, or helping some who dropped all of their things in the middle of Landis Green, or consoling someone with a loss, let us love them like Jesus. Let us show them the love that our Savior has shown us and the same love he desires for them to know through actions and in truth.


       1 Corinthians 13:13 “Now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.” With love being the essence of God, love is the greatest element of our faith. It is the fundamental element of our salvation. This is how others see Christ in us and how we express our love to God, by loving His creation alongside Him, by letting Him express His love for other through our lives. So I challenge you to experience love as our God has created it to be experienced, not as society has made it out to be. I challenge you to experience it and express it passionately and ultimately UNCONDITIONALLY to our God and to our world. This is our call and our mission to all of the people in this world. This is what our generation needs to be remembered as, the generation that loved as Christ loved. This is what being a Christian is all about, loving the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength, and in turn, out of the overflow of the love of God in your heart, loving other as Christ has loved us. This my prayer for us: Ephesians 3:17-19 “And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge – that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.”

my love to all of you in Christ Jesus,

ashleigh

my source of strength and hope is Christ alone

"in Christ alone, i place my trust, and find my glory in the power of the cross. in every victory, let it be said of me, my source of strength, my source of hope, is Christ alone." - "In Christ Alone" by Brian Littrell

and yet another month slips away as i fail to post. but once again i will point out that there are not avid readers breathing down my neck for the next bit of news. but on the other hand, this does need to become more regular for my own sake. it is pretty pitiful when i have to read over my last post to remember where i was. ha!

anyway, moving on past the housekeeping necessities, Jesus has not failed me yet. of course, it is not like i ever though He would, but He does prove himself faithful time and time again. it is the day after thanksgiving and i just sit here and realize all that i have to be thankful to God for:
- amazing parents that love, support, and provide for me
- awesome siblings that love me and support me
- adorable nieces and nephews that love me and i love them
- marvelous godparents that love and support me
- incredible friends who love me for who i am, and that i love dearly
- great grades in school because the Lord has blessed me
- an incredible sorority, delta alpha chi, of which i am a newly initiated sister; God has me so much through this organization
- an amazing "big sister" through ∆AX who offers such wisdom, insight, and conformation in my life
- the fact that God is active and living in my life
- the fact that i am alive and breathing each new breath
- that i have lost 21 pounds since the middle of july
- an amazing church that supports me and the rest of the college students
- that i get to wake up everyday and praise my Savior and Lord

the best part about this is that the list goes on and on. i cannot even begin to list everything in its entirety because i know i would leave out so much. God has blessed me beyond belief and continues to do so everyday. sometimes i think that He may run out of blessings because of how much He has blessed me, but i know that He is infinite and will never do so. the Lord our God DELIGHTS to bless us. He take HOLY PLEASURE in our welfare and well-being. our Daddy, our Abba Father will never let us go or go without. He loves us too much to do so. now i'm not saying that if you love the Lord He is going to dump down a truckload of cash. but what i am saying as that as you continue to love the Lord with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, your desires will begin to line up with His desires and He will give you the desires of your heart. this is because your desires have become His desires for your life. what an awesome thought! the best part is that it does happen! i stand here before in testimony that the Lord is true to His Word. so i beg you do just that. let His desires begin to fill your life. then watch Him bless you beyond measure! our Lord is truly Jehovah-Jirah, our Provider. so let Him provide for you!

as each day passes, i hope to share with you some more insight, some more wisdom that the Lord has laid on my heart. what He has shown me is just too good and too great to keep to myself. so my dear friend, cling tightly to the Lord and never let go. know that we can NEVER lose with Him on our side. we have Elohim, the Creator of the Universe, as our God. everything is His, and we are heirs to His throne, so in short, everything is ours! what a blessings! what a promise! what an AWESOME GOD!

"taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the man who take refuge in Him. fear the Lord, you his saints, for those who fear Him lack nothing. the lions may grow weak and hungry. but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing." - psalm 34:8-10

in & for Him,
ashleigh

glory in Christ Jesus alone

“then let us approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.” – hebrews 4:16

so it has been quite a while since i have posted. i realize this. but on the same token, it is not like i have avid readers to worry about. it will be more of regular occurance though. i am quite excited about it too! so, without futher ado, let us get started.

much has happened since i last spoke. the Lord my God has blessed me beyond measure. i could not be more thrilled. sure, trials and tribulations occured, but they have only refined me by fire and set my eyes ever on my Redeemer and His glory.

i have: moved out of a living situation, into a place with two girls i did not know
: gone to atlanta and burmingham
: had my father find a new job
: received an iphone from awesome godparents
: resigned from one church position, just to have God place me in another
: pledged an amazing Christian sorority, detla alpha chi
: become friends with some of the most incredible women of the Lord
: gone line dancing til 2 in the morning
: seen the Spirit of God move among college students in the Worship of Him
: done fairly well in my studies
: lost 18 pounds
: grown so deeply and madly in love with Jesus Christ
: had God pour out His wisdom, love, goodness, mercy, and grace all over me
: finally grapsed the concept of faith
: understood and excercised the concept of forgiveness of others
: immersed myself in Jesus and realized that is all that i need

the Lord has been so good to me even though i have never ever done anything to deserve it. God has revealed so much to me, and yet, i can't wait to learn even more. i am such a temprel being, but for the past few days, i have wanted to praise the Lord Jesus Christ FOREVER! He has such love and mercy for us. please never forget that. He is such an incredible, loving, holy, righteous, soverign, good, wise, strong, self-sufficent, merciful, compassionate, consistant, never-changing, providing, patient, and faithful God. how could i EVER want more? i have the King of the universe as my Abba Father, my Daddy!

i hope to share with you in the upcoming days, weeks, months, and years my walk with my sweet, sweet Lord. like i said in my first post, this is me working out my salvation on my knees in total surrender to my glorious God. "if it pleases You Lord, it pleases me." i hope to reveal to you what my mighty God has revealed to me so that you may draw closer to Him.

know that He is righteous, just, strong, loving, and faithful. dwell on the attributes of God and find strength in Him because of His never-changing charateristics! Jesus commands our destiny. how can we lose in life?

"through Jesus, therefore let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise - the fruit of lips that confess His name." - hebrews 13:15

in & for Him,
ashleigh