morning coffee with my wife

Charles Spurgeon said,
"Jesus! the life of all our joys. If there be one name more charming, more precious than another, it is this name. It is woven into the very warp and woof of our psalmody. Many of our hymns begin with it, and scarcely any, that are good for anything, end without it. It is the sum total of all delights. It is the music with which the bells of heaven ring; a song in a word; an ocean for comprehension, although a drop for brevity; a matchless oratorio in two syllables; a gathering up of the hallelujahs of eternity in five letters. "Jesus, I love Thy charming name, 'Tis music to mine ear."

What worshipper of God would not be laid out by such an accurate description of the Savior? My heart swells at the reading of the excerpt above, and I feel like the Sprit has breathed a new life in me by the remembrance of his heart, and that which he's given me. I look at my life now, and it's so much different than it was a year ago. Last year at this time I was focused on booking tours and working on band stuff. I was oblivious to what was going on later that year. So now fast forward, i'm married to an amazingly beautiful woman who loves the Lord and me. Settled down? Nope...hehe, she is what kinda keeps me from settling down. Her encouragement just musters my desire to get to the place which the Lord has called me to be.

My largest desire lately has been to get back into the groove of my old schedule, but it has occurred to me that it might not be where i'm supposed to be. Now i'm looking to be where my new schedule is. There is a lot of getting settled into married life as far as schedule and routine. I really want to be more regular doing my blogging and journal. I normally write in a text file about really personal stuff, and i'm struggling with wether to make this my only writing source. I figure i could just protect the posts that i would normally put in my other journal.

Colleen and i were talking about something this morning and it reminded me of Romans 8, so as we were reading it something really stuck out to me. Starting in verse 31"31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 Truly He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? 33 Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God who justifies.". With marriage being the new position and the major target for any attacks, the concept of being not only God's elect but also that no force can lay anything to our charge, to accuse of failure or inadequacy. I just love the tenderness of the Spirit of God, in the way he constantly courts our hearts to turn to him in greater ways.