Thought for today - 08/30/2013

GOD CALLS ME TO REST ON HIS TRUTH 
"I sure am glad I have my own Jesus. If I didn't have my own personal walk with him, my life would be one giant vat of emotion, a tempest tossing me from one whim to the next. Which is why I have learned I need my own Jesus -- my own relationship with the Lord of all creation. I can't live by what I feel but by the truth God's Word reveals. 

"This last line may sound familiar because it's part of the bridge in East to West -- a song I wrote about learning to accept and live in the reality of God's forgiveness. The lyrics describe where I've been in my walk with Jesus over the past few years. No matter how many times my old life comes haunting, God calls me to rest on his truth and not on what I feel or think."
- from Your Own Jesus: A God Insistent on Making It Personal by Mark Hall of Casting Crowns with Tim Luke