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Name: Ruth
Birthday: 11/16/1987
Gender: Female
Interests: My sweet Jesus, hanging out with friends, my family, Shepherd group (west side!), SOCCER, Spanish, Camping, Laughing until my side ache, fishing, toasting marshmellos, rain,toothe paste with scope the Smell of fires burning, toes, STARS, reflection of lights on water, letters in the mail.....acoustic guitars.
Expertise: SWINGING! of course.
Occupation: Student
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AIM:  AmigDeDios16
AIM:  AmigaDeDios17
Member Since:
1/1/2005
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| i know it's been FOREVER since I last posted. Virginia tech is still amazing. God is still not safe, but Good .....but here is what has been on my heart lately and will continue to be for awhile as I explore this place God has led me to. I wanted to share it with you all.....whoever might actually still read this..haha
"And these are but the mere edges of his works;
how faint the whisper we hear of him!
Who then can understand the thunder of his power?"
-( Job 26:14)-
"Behold, God is great, and we do not know Him;
Nor can the number of His years be discovered.
For He draws up drops of water,
Which distill as rain from the mist,
Which the clouds drop down
And pour abundantly on man.
Indeed, can anyone understand the spreading of clouds,
The thunder from His canopy?
Look, He scatters His light upon it,
And covers the depths of the sea.
For by these He judges the peoples;
He gives food in abundance.
He covers His hands with lightning,
And commands it to strike."
-(Job 36:26-32)-
The past week I've been overwhelemed by God's exceeding ability to blow my mind away and my inability to comprehend it all. He has brought me into a place where I don't understand everything and will not understand everything. He is wrestling with me over things and has reminded me "Ruth, is there anything too hard for me to do? Have I ever failed You in the past? Am I not a God who has fulfilled EVERY single word I have promised??"
"God is not a man, that he should lie,
nor a son of man, that he should change his mind.
Does he speak and then not act?
Does he promise and not fulfill?"
-(Numbers 23:19)-
"Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for Me?" (Jeremiah 32:27)
He's brought me into His presence which I cannot fully grasp or take it. His majesty, power, love and faithfulness is beyond me and my attempts to try and take it all in.I can not praise His worthiness or thank Him enough. But I think this is where God calls us to be, in a place where we don't know everything and are awe of who He is and what He does. For when we do not know everything, we are forced to trust and rely on the One who holds all things in His hands. It is in this place that we see how truly GREAT our God is and how small we are. It is here that we realize our need for Him and that we are incapable of doing any good thing apart form Him.
I can not take a single breath without God giving it to me. How many days do I go through with "breathing" in vain. Breathing without acknowledging the giver of that breath?? I want this day to be filled with breaths that are from God and filled with thankfulness and complete surrender and contentment with the Giver of my every breath. For He is beyond me. His ways are beyond mine. His times are not my times and how great that is, no?!
"For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,"
declares the LORD.
"As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts."
-(Isaiah 55:8-9)-
For when I try to do things in my own understanding, in my own strength, in my own time...it is in vain and purposeless. For God is the source of my strength. He IS my portion forever. Funny how I try to figure things out or solve problems on my own or even question God's doings. Who am I to give God counsol and who am I to tell God what should be done? For I am a finite human who has limits, doubting the LIMITLESS and ALMIGHTY God who goes before all things and knows all things.
so here I stand. In awe and inability to take God in, wondering what He desires to show me and reveal to me as i embrace that fact that I am in the presence of a limitless God....one whose ways are past finding out.
I challenge you as I challenge myself to dive into this place with God. Experience His greatness which is unable to be measured. Be still and know He is GOD.
"Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God!
How unsearchable his judgments,
and his paths beyond tracing out!
"Who has known the mind of the Lord?
Or who has been his counselor?"
"Who has ever given to God,
that God should repay him?"
For from him and through him and to him are all things.
To him be the glory forever! Amen."
-(Romans 11:33-36)-
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| tomorrow at 9am I am on my way to VIRGINIA TECH!!!!! How great is God and how good He is! what an answer to prayer.... He has provided a place for me to live, amazing Christian roommates, fellowship, FURNITURE! and all my classes. He Knows each of our needs.He will provide for them in due time .When He does, it'll be perfect and fully satisfying, not lacking a thing. What does He call us to do? Seek first after Him and His kingdom....He'll take care of the rest. Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,
and your dominion endures through all generations.
The LORD is faithful to all his promises
and loving toward all he has made. 14 The LORD upholds all those who fall
and lifts up all who are bowed down. 15 The eyes of all look to you,
and you give them their food at the proper time. 16 You open your hand
and satisfy the desires of every living thing. 17 The LORD is righteous in all his ways
and loving toward all he has made. 18 The LORD is near to all who call on him,
to all who call on him in truth." -(Psalm 145:13-18)- "So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we or 'What shall we wear?' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." -(Matthew 6: 31-34)- ....laying it all at the feet of MY Faithful and Sovereign Father ..... BTW-------I AM SOOOOO STOKED!!! GOOOOO HOKIES!! 
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| "For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,"
declares the LORD. "As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts. As the rain and the snow
come down from heaven,
and do not return to it
without watering the earth
and making it bud and flourish,
so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth:
It will not return to me empty,
but will accomplish what I desire
and achieve the purpose for which I sent it." (Isaiah 55:8-11) I had my last tuesday at the co-op this week. Was a bittersweet time. I have grown to LOVE and cherish those teens with all my heart and will miss them SO much when I go to college. But...I most definitely will be staying in touch  They have taught me so much and have encouraged and blessed me beyond my expectations. It has been wonderful to be home this semester and have spent time with these kids. I wouldn't trade it for the world and I thank God for the time I was able to be involved in their lives. This passage in Isaiah came up during on of the Bible study times at the co-op. God revealed something to me that I hadn't seen before in this passage. I LOVE how God's Word is LIVING and ACTIVE and no matter how many times we read it, there will always be something new, exciting, challenging, sobering, encouraging, complex, freeing and convicting to learn,read,study, and meditate upon. while I was sharing this verse with the girls in my study, God opened my eyes to something in the last verses: so is my word that goes out from my mouth:
It will not return to me empty,
but will accomplish what I desire
and achieve the purpose for which I sent it. When we read God's Word, it will not return void. But, soooo cool!! rather it WILL do something. That something is what God has purposed for you to learn. God has a purpose, plan for us when we are in His Word and He will accomplish that purpose. It's like a missle. A missle has itself PROGRAMMED for an exact target and will not deter from that target unless something drastic happens. That's how God is with us when we are in His Word. He has a "target" He has purposed to "hit" when we search Him out and He has every intention on hitting that target on the bull's eye. Isn't that awesome to think?! God has a specific purpose and target He wants to nail when we spend time in His Word. Shouldn't that make us all the more excited to read His Word, knowing that is it NEVER in vain, will never return to God void, and is purposeful? I priase God for removing the veil from my eyes and reveiling this little thing to me. To Him be the Glory forever. May you be excited to spend time in His Word since it is with GREAT purpose. 
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I love our God....I love that He desires us to seek after Him and He pursues us. I love how He is faithful and provides. I love how He longs to hear from us and wants us to pour out our hearts before Him. I love how we are carved in the palms of His hands and He will never forget us. I love how He is more than enough. yeah..... God is awesome. take time to Praise God and thank Him for who He is. I know I don't do it enough. What joy and satisfaction one receives when praising THE One and Only King who alone is worthy! Lord, let this passion deepen  | | |
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Psalm 34:8-10 "TASTE and SEE that the Lord is good. Blessed is the man who TRUSTS in Him. Oh, fear the LORD, you His saints! There is NO WANT to those who fear Him.
The young lions lack and suffer hunger; But those who seek the LORD SHALL NOT LACK ANY GOOD THING!" God has been challenging me to "taste" Him and SEE that He is good. To not just know that He is good...but to actually TASTE Him....taste His faithfulness. Taste His Unchangeable character. Taste His Sovereignty. Taste His goodness. Taste the plans filled with hope and future He has for me. I've been looking from a distance. At times I might have taken a small taste. But alot of the time, I've been touching those things with my toes, much like someone does before they jump into an ice cold pool. God is asking me to Taste Him and see how he WILL fulfill and not disappoint me. When I am trusting in God for the greater purpose in what is happening around me, I am "tasting" Him. Tasting Him is about faith and trust. ......just some thoughts..... 
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