Name:Josh Country:United States State:Michigan Metro:Muskegon Gender:Male
Interests:J-E-S-U-S!!!!! He is seriously amazing and worth living and dying for. Also I am quite interested in different fields of media such as videography, recording (music), photography, digital editing (photo & video), and working on live music applications (such as mixing sound, running video, or playing the instruments). I love music in general and love most every type of style. Some of my favs are: Steven Curtis Chapman, Jeff Deyo, Switchfoot, TFK, Jeremy Camp, Relient K, Chris Tomlin, Aaron Shust, Delirious, Newsboys, David Crowder, Third Day, Chris Rice, Caedmons Call, Building 429, Tree63, Skillet, the O.C. Supertones, Michael Gungor, Kutless, MWS, Jars of Clay...the list goes on. I play keyboard/piano, guitar, drums, and some bass as well. I absolutely love summer and the water. I also love hiking, camping, swimming, tubing, cross country skiing, flying, and boating. I have the best friends in the world...all you guys rock!! Church is also a big part of my life...out of room Expertise:I do lots of music, video production, audio production, photo editing, and quite a few things related to technology. I am an expert at being me...which is rather nice ;). Occupation:Student Industry:Music
yeah i know...understatment, utterly profound, "duh"... but seriously!
if you really stop to think about it (and how often do we forget it?)... God is totally cool.
ok ok, maybe "cool" isn't the word.... ...how about, "indescribable, amazing, unchanging, holy, perfect, everlasting"?
...yeah thats kinda more like it.
but anyways, what could be cooler than a God who loves us unconditionally, no matter what we do (or don't do)? what could be cooler than a God who is always there to listen to us, even when all others desert us? what could be cooler than a God who decided to create the universe just because He can? and then created us, and WANTED to have a relationship with us? and then sent His only Son to the world which He had created...to DIE for us...seriously if you think about it, it blows your mind.
and then i think about us. haha...you gotta laugh. come on now...no offense to anyone, but we're totally stupid. we make ourselves think that we are the greatest thing that ever happened (which is pretting intersting concidering the other billions of people on the earth do the same thing) by seeking our own interests, looking out for ourselves more than others, taking matters into our own hands, running from God instead of to Him like we should...and then blaming everything on Him. haha...yeah...we're definitely not the brightest things around.
but He still loves us.
yeah...God is cool. amazing. everlasting. unchanging. all knowing. always loving. patient. caring. generous. merciful. full of grace. saving. perfectly holy. ....
and yet we forget it so so easily.
so, i thought i'd take the chance and remind myself, as well as anyone else who decides to read this that God is totally amazingly perfectly everlastingly cool.
From the highest of heights to the depths of the sea
Creation's revealing Your majesty
From the colors of fall to the fragrance of spring
Every creature unique in the song that it sings
All exclaiming
Indescribable, uncontainable,
You placed the stars in the sky and You know them by name.
You are amazing God
All powerful, untamable,
Awestruck we fall to our knees as we humbly proclaim
You are amazing God
Who has told every lightning bolt where it should go
Or seen heavenly storehouses laden with snow
Who imagined the sun and gives source to its light
Yet conceals it to bring us the coolness of night
None can fathom
lots of times we as humans have points in our lives where nothing seems to make sense... but its not often when everything seems to be too clear.
those times are interesting.
times of joy when you realize how much you have to be thankful for.... times of sorrowwhen the realization sets in of something you've lost... times when the pressure of the future hits, when you finally realize what actually is looming ahead... or maybe its thoughts of the past...memories you want to always remember, things you wish could be forgotten, and yet it still haunts you. ...or maybe, all four.
yes, those times are interesting.
[when the thoughts are all jumbled up inside your head, spinning around so fast you can't even hardly keep your mind on one before the next one hits...and the intensity is rising and rising and rising and everything is jumbling up to the point where you hardly even know what's going on anymore and you're on the verge of collapse....]
...those times are definitely interesting.
the problem isn't that you have no idea what's going on...'cause you can see everything very clearly; the problem is that you don't know what to do with it all, and if it keeps on at the pace you're at, you're going to collapse.
its interesting, cause in those times, we try to deal with it ourselves. we try to use our (own power) to make it right, to solve the problems.
[but that just doesn't work]
so its in times like that when we need to realize who God really is...and who we are to Him.
He is the King of the universe, the Maker of all time, the Creator of life, the Sustainer of all things, the Saviour of all people, the Reason for living, the Alpha, the Omega...the Everlasting, Unchanging, Perfect, Holy, Unmoving, Amazing, Indescribable God...
and us?...[we're His children]
He holds us in His hands...we are His.
and when the realization of who God is finally hits us, the only worthy response we can give is to give Him all of our problems, all of our worries, all of our cares in this world. No, we cannot solve them. No, we cannot fix them. No, we cannot make things right. But HE holds our future. HE holds our lives in His hand...He is God, [and we are not]
So we give it all to Him, all our worries, all our cares, all our thoughts...and He takes it and does what He knows is best for us. If you think about it, that's kinda really amazing. And yet we take it for granted.
He is God. He is in control. He knows the future...
He is more than enough...
and still more awesome than I know.
I’m forgiven because You were forsaken,
I’m accepted, You were condemned.
I'm alive and well, Your sprit is within me,
Because You died and rose again.
Amazing love,
How can it be?
That You, my King would die for me?
Amazing love,
I know it’s true.
It’s my joy to honor You,
In all I do, I honor You.
Living a life that was
full of disaster, A small, tiny story of
which I was the master, I lived life for
nothing; it was all I knew, As I lived for myself,
and I lived without You.
I searched and I
questioned “Just what is my life?” I tried to find peace but
I only found strife, Living for nothing, my
life was a grave, Happiness filled me,
yet hopelessness reigned.
A longing consumed me,
to erase all my pain, Yet all I could see
was the infinite rain. I was walking a
pathway, which leads to destruction, I was alone, and I had
no protection.
I fell to the ground,
for the weight was too heavy, I tried hard to stand,
but I was too weary, I tried to call out,
yet my voice it betrayed me, I cried out in vain, and
nobody heard me.
Then, somehow, You
heard me; somehow, You knew, You lifted me up when
my life was all through; You dried all my
tears, and You made me alive, As You told me, “My
child, ‘twas for you that I died."
Then a joy like no
other came and filled up my soul, And I realized my
broken heart, finally was whole. I danced and I
shouted: I knew I was free! For the God of the
universe died…just for me.
I gave Him my all; now
I’m in His great story, He filled up my life;
now I live for His glory. He is more than
enough—He is all that I need, He’s my Savior, my
Jesus, my God, and my King.
