Today, when I was supposed to be doing school but wasn't, I was talking with a friend and he decided to send me the link to this video he found on YouTube - 'Oh Praise Him' ~ David Crowder Band: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpVsF4W8V2Y. This movie touched my heart like not many have. It's a video of this guy who is walking down the streets of New York, and he just can't resist praising God even though there are hundreds of people around him. He was even on his knees praying to God! That is the most incredible thing I've EVER seen! But my question is.... why can't we do that? Why can't we have this unresistable urge to get down on our hands and knees and praise God? We so openly tell our friends we love them and care for them, and we encourage them when the need it, not matter where we are or who's around us. So, why can't we do that with God? Why is it SO weird for us to openly praise God? He's the ultimate friend, and we should NOT be ashame to tell him how indescribably great he is! And why do we care about what others think? People who love God, too, should understand why we are praising Him. And even those people who don't, why do we care? They can scoff and laugh and mock us if they want, but who cares! God is looking at us with a beaming smile on his face! And SO many others have done the same. I'm embarrassed to say I don't know where this passage is, but somewhere in the Bible it talks about how King David, in all his splendor, didn't care what others thought of him. And at one point he was crazily and passionately dancing threw the streets of Jerusalem praising God's name! He was scoffed at by  his wife, but that did not stop him! He still did it anyways! He praised God and danced for him in front of HUNDREDS, but he wasn't ashamed to dance, praise, and just glorify the name of our ULTIMATE Best Friend, and our father!! Just now, I found this other song. That goes along with what I've previously written. :) Here's the song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp7B5V-qpTQ&feature=related

Today, after I watched this movie, I was thinking. And I SO want to just drop school all together and go after God with all that I am. I want to SOOOO badly, but I know my parents wouldn't let me. However, I was talking to God, and he told me that I've been focussing on school way to much and making it this enormous thing in my life. He said, though, that I shouldn't make it as big a thing and that I should have HIM be the biggest thing in my life, and that He wants to be my number one focus. School is just to be a small pebble compared to him. I know that I've been making school a WAY bigger thing than it should be, and I'm SO tired of that! It's a pointless goal, because after I'm home with God, none of it's going to matter. The only things in this world that really matter are God and the people here with us. As much as I want to drop school, I'll have to stay in school (mostlikely my parents orders), but I'm gonna hold onto the words in this verse. Psalm 37:4 states "Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart." So God knows my desires, and if I go after him he'll grant those desires, whether it being today, tomorrow, or years from now. And another verse that I'll hold onto is Matthew 6: 25 - 34 "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? ²⁶Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? ²⁷Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life^[b]?  ²⁸"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. ²⁹Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. ³⁰If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? ³¹So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' ³²For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. ³³But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. ³⁴Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." And one last verse that I'll leave you with is Jeremiah 29:11 - 14 " ¹¹ For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. ¹² Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. ¹³ You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. ¹⁴ I will be found by you," declares the LORD, "and will bring you back from captivity. ^b] I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have banished you," declares the LORD, "and will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile."

Love you all! And I hope this wasn't a preachy and harsh post. I didn't mean for it to be. My heart was on fire for God while I was writing it, and it might have come out a little harsher than intended. I hope I haven't offended anyone. I love you all! :)

Love your sister in Christ,
Sarah

(P.S. If any of you need prayer or just someone to talk to, whether you know me or not, I'd love to help. :) Just leave me a comment and I'll reply as soon as possible. :) )

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