I am blessed beyond belief.

So, I have kind of neglected this blog for quite sometime. I really do regret not posting more, but it's interesting to look back on the goals I set for myself back in August. When I last posted, I said that I wanted to make my goal to really seek after God and strive to be like Him in every single way possible. I feel like I definitely have come so far in my walk with Christ, even though it's nowhere where it should be. In everything I do I try to be a light to the world; I lead a Teenage Girls Bible Study, I go to church every week, I read my Bible and I try to be an example to the lost. However, I'm finding that this still isn't enough. I end up going through my Bible study halfheartedly, I zone out while sitting in church, and I don't really read Bible. I'm almost done with my senior year of high school, and let's just be honest here, I'm exhausted. I'm in a bit of a spiritual dry patch and I'm trying to reconnect with Christ, but it's hard. I pray all the time but it's difficult when I don't always feel God's presence. I honestly can't blame anyone but myself. I don't put in as much effort as I should. 

"No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord." -Romans 8:37-39

Uh, Wow. What a powerful passage. I am so imperfect. I struggle so much. I feel so discouraged. But here is the passage that sparks hope inside of me. Even though I struggle, I cannot be separated from Christ. I don't deserve this. At all. I cannot fathom how a God so big could love me. A God that loves me so much He sent His son to die for me so I can spend eternity with Him. I really just don't deserve this. But though I don't deserve this, I have hope. Hope that things will be better and that I can overcome this spiritual dry patch because of someone much greater than me. For anyone reading this, I challenge you to write down these couple of verses and remind yourself of them when you're feeling lonely or discouraged. It definitely helped me.