praise

Tonight I was at youth, and I LOVE singing! Worship is like my FAVORITE thing to do at church. Better than dodgeball :) Unfortunately, out of maybe 30 kids, about 5 were singing. I kept getting weird looks because I was one of the odd ones out. Shouldn't it be the other way around? The MAJORITY should be PRAISING and WORSHIPING Him! Not the minority! Psalm 98:4 says "Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all the Earth; make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise!". God mentioned the word "PRAISE [the Lord]" around 200+ times in the whole Bible; wouldn't you think it's pretty important? God created the world, sent his son to die for us, forgave us of our sins, not to mention the fact that he promised He would KEEP forgiving us, and PROMISED to come back. Isn't that a little incentive to praise Him?! God is AMAZING. He is PERFECT. There is NONE.LIKE.HIM! What more do you need?! My dad is in our church choir, and he's told me times of when he's up there and praising, singin out to God, and it's unlike anything. Just him and God. Sure, he may not exactly be opera material, but he BLESSES the Lord with his voice. And lemme tell ya one thing; my dad couldn't care less if you think he's weird for singin loud, because for him, he is kneeling at the feet of Jesus, in his [presence]. Guys, I can't stress to you enough how incredibly important worship is! You may hear me belting the songs out in the back, and think, man she's kind of a freak. But man guys, if you could only experience it. The feeling that you're doing something that honors God. It's unreal. People say there's nothing like the feeling you get from being saved, and I agree, being saved is... well there's no word to describe it. But worshiping? It's right up there with it. To me, it's special. It's personal.

Maybe all this is just me, but guys, if you couldn't care less about anything I've said until now, care about this;

God loves you. He loves me. He saved you. He saved us all from a fate worse than death, and He LONGS for you. He is JEALOUS for you!

Isn't that enough to give up a few minutes of your texting/social life/boyfriend/girlfriend/favorite-song-on-the-radio time? Man, it's enough for me..

peace and blessings.

People warned me about how my friends would change in highschool. How the people I thought I'd had all figured out would completely change. I couldn't count the amount of times my friends told me. And even now that it happens, man it hurts like junk. No matter how prepared you are for it, you can never fully prepare for that kinda thing. it's hard. real hard.
Guess that's all I really had to say.