Journal of Faith: Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling Philippians 2:12

                                       There are  many interpretations of what it means to worship God. Some people bow down, others lay on their face, some people lift their hands or close their eyes.  Some people worship by singing or dancing.  To me worship can be all of these things.  The point of my worship is to reflect on the character and identity of God and show him my love for him.  I can do that with a drawing or in a moment of meditation.  Sometimes I worship in my dreams.  Worship is especially important to me when I am struggling to understand what is happening in my life or the world around me.  As I remind myself of who God is, it helps me to put pain, loss, disappointment in it's proper place.  My God is not ill equipped or caught off gu...

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I am so grateful for my mother who allowed me to be myself even when it meant climbing trees, or playing football(America) and futbol.  I was not a girly little girl, or teenager.  I was sporty, outspoken, and rebellious against the idea that all girls should be subdued and domestic.  There is nothing wrong with being subdued and domestic, it's just that I didn't feel that is was right or necessary for those attributes to be thrust onto me by people who didn't care who I really was.  I used to hate being a girl because in my mind it meant skirts and stocking, sewing and makeup.  Fortunately my mother decided that she would give me the foundations of what I had to know to survive as a girl, and then let me be who I am, as long as it was respectful, decent, and didn't dishonor God or put me at too much risk. My childhood and continuing into my adulthood I have grown to believe that God created genders to complement each other and to create a more vivid picture...

So I was thinking about the major decisions that I've made in my life, and it hit me like a brick that every bad choice that I made started out with a small taste of bad.  What I mean is that every evil in me started off smaller and then grew to something even uglier because I entertained it by giving in.  My most visible failures were sexual and so I'll focus on that today, but what I am saying is applicable to every lust that draws us away from the will of God for our lives.      I would like to first say that we are all born with a sinful nature.  We are born into sin, and that is why we all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.  It's why babies are cute little selfish liars without being taught.  It's in our nature to look out for ourselves at any cost.  It is also why some people are so impatient and easily angered.  It's the reason why some people just love to fight and steal.  It's the reason why most of us have...