I Have Been Made NEW

Wow! I have not blogged in a long time.....sorry about that.
Well I think I have something to blog about that I think is really exciting so...here'goes.

Every morning I just wake up, go potty, get ready for the day, check facebook, check e-mail, go to g-ma's for lunch, check facebook, lay around the house, watch tv, lay around more, watch more tv, then go to bed and repeat that routine the next day.

Something is missing here........

You guessed it.....I don't put God in anywhere. Even in the times that I'm just lying around the house! How lame is that.

Somehow today has been different and I think that every day from now on will be different.

Last night I had a serious conversation with God. Like I layed it all down. I confessed to Him how wretched I am, how I have grown to not care about what He thinks, how I abuse His grace by sinning then asking for forgiveness later ("cause I know He'll forgive me"), how I want change, how I want to be changed, I don't want to be lost anymore, I want to be found, I want to be different, I want to feel different, I want people to see that difference.....I want people to NOT see "Liz Hitt".....

I think that God really stirred up my heart in that conversation with Him. I came to realize that even though I accepted His gift of salvation when I was 5, I have been a lukewarm Christian.
After realizing that fact, today was completely turned around for me. I didn't stick to my daily summer routine. I opened up God's Word to Romans chapter 6 and read it in its entirety.

God showed me through Romans 6 that I am dead to sin and alive in Christ. I cannot abuse God's grace and expect to have a healthy relationship with Him.

When I confessed my wretched behavior to God, I felt like He was listening to every word and He has truly changed my heart and my outlook on life.

Another thing that was kind of great about that conversation with God last night was that my mind didn't drift off into random thoughts like it usually does. I stayed focused on what I was giving up to Him and because of that focus I found rest in knowing that I will be with Him one day in His kingdom; praising Him forever.

That's all I really have for right now. I'm sure God will pour more onto my heart as life progresses.

I am His and He is mine.

New Experience

This Sunday, May 2nd, I start my summer music position at Hawk Point Baptist Church.

I am both really excited and really nervous about it because I don't know what to expect or how things will turn out.

One of the ladies who helps out with the youth group there was telling me about how these kids don't have Jesus, they've never had music in their meetings before and how they're going to look up to me. When she said all of that I felt a few emotions; 1) My heart broke because they don't have Jesus, 2) I got sad because they have never experienced music and 3) I got nervous because I was told that "they're gonna be looking up to me".......baaaaah!

I mean that is a huge honor, but for some reason it's really nerve wrecking.

In the meantime I will just continue to pray that God's will be done in all of what happens this summer and that He will use me in any way that He chooses.
This will certainly be an interesting journey and God will work through it all! :)