In Him we live and move

Lindsay gifted me this Bible I am reading that has John MacArthurs notes. This Bible has so many resources that every time I open it I feel like I'm unwrapping a gift. For instance I was trying to find the verse, In Him we live and move and have our being. Before Acts begins there is a few pages of background about the writer and about the chapter. I read it and I was wanting to read Acts but I was getting a strong feeling to not read Acts but I was feeling that Matthew is what I should be reading. I started reading Matthew over a year ago and didn't make it very far. I got stuck on the part where Jesus is telling us to give more than asked. If someone asks you to walk a mile then you are to walk two miles, etc., Jesus even says that if someone asks you for money you are supposed to give it to him. The money we have isn't ours but God's. We are just the caretakers. So many things are said by Jesus that are just foreign to my mind which is ridiculous. I've been going to church since I was born. Why would Jesus's words be foreign to my mind? Shouldn't they be a huge part of me and not foreign in any way?

Today we had a get-together of our Bible Study group from work.

The reason I was looking up 'In Him we live and move and have our being' is because John was talking about how he asks potential dates what their favorite verse of the Bible is and I adore that verse in the Bible. "In Him we live and move and have our being." So poetic and so who I want to be. I love Jesus. I adore Jesus. I want to be who Jesus wants me to be. I want to be His hands and His feet and His smile. I want to be living so that if He walked up behind me while I was busy talking or working, that He would be smiling at me as I turned around.

So many times as I leave a situation and think back on it later in the day I find myself regretting most of what I have said. I keep wishing I could wire my mouth shut. I decided that if I imagined that Jesus was standing there, or if I saw myself talking to Him, surely then I would be more careful with my words. I am just so clumsy.

Unlike what I feel when I think of those words, "In Him we live and move and have our being."

Such grace.