- Leading my girls in paintball...here we go.. love it... but im scared. :) Go
- Alright hon so you're retired im not. why dont u move over... im late. Go
- Almost about to go on air in beattyville Kentucky! yeeeeehaw haha Go
I am wondering thinking deeply in my heart lately about what it really means to walk with the Lord. Sure, I can say the right things, I can look the right way, I can be who I “should be”, I can be and do exactly what my parent’s want, I can have all the right “standards” and I can have all the right words — but I can totally wash out spiritually. I can totally ruin my life and fall into deep sin and suddenly turn my back on all the things I used to be so firm in “believing”. I can totally walk away from the Lord completely. (This first picture is the mist in the morning rising off Wolf Lake. This is the lake we will be staying on in the Northwoods)
How do I know this? I have seen it happen. I have seen it happen to the most unsuspecting people. The ones I thought “had it all together spiritually”. To be honest it scares me. I realized yesterday with a new sense that I hate sin. I hate the sin that quickly separates us from fellowship with our Lord and will ultimately ruin our life. I cried out from the depths of myself to the throne of His mercy to help me walk humbly with my God.
This is why I am really excited about “The Journey To The Heart” for young ladies that I will be leading up to the Northwoods on Wolf Lake this month 20-30th. This second picture is the view from the house we will be staying in on Duck Point. If you could pray for us there please do. My desire and I know the Lords desire is that we would really seek the face of our God and He would reveal to each of us our own hearts. The whole point of the 10 day retreat is that we would search our own hearts before God alone and that we would say with David:
“Search me, O God, and know my heart: — see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.” Psalm 139:23-24
6 Comments
Hi Holly,
I often read your dad’s site and enjoy looking at your mom’s pics. We are an ati family too. I WILL be praying for you and the girls that attend the retreat. Your post is oh so true… it makes me think of these verses… “Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but GOd is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.” 1 Cor. 10: 12-13 “Be sober, be vigilant ; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: whom resist steadfast in the faith……” 1 Peter 5:8-9a
That last post was from Mom even though it says “Ken”
I love you
Comment by DAD on January 13th, 2007 @ 1:13 pmHolly! I am soo excited that you’re doing a journey to the heart! WOW I really want to go on one soon. I am afraid I’ll be asked to lead one though, I just feel so incapable! But you will DEFINATELY be in my prayers, I can’t imagine what it must be like. Let me know when you get back! I’m in Mexico, but coming back to Chicago on Thursday.
Comment by Cristina on January 14th, 2007 @ 11:17 pmThats beautiful Holly….I will pray for ya’all. This is something I have thought more about lately in light of a lot of new attacks. Its very different for me being “on my own”….being a guy and getting to the point where in large part its just me and God. Its not something I cherish, there’s a lot of security in resting beneath the protection of Godly parents. For me its something I must learn to do, but it is sad to see so many young girls who leave their parents protection and are hit head on with what God never intended for them to face. You’re doing a good work, may God bless you, have a great time. 
Holly,
You are right that a person can appear blameless on the outside and be decaying from the inside out. It is a human problem (Sin in our heart defiles us-Mark 7:15). Yet, at the same time, we can be confident, trusting that He who has begun a good work in us will complete it unto the day of Jesus Christ (Phil 1:6). In your pondering, please remember the sovereign love of God that will never fail to draw His sheep back to fellowship (I Cor. 13).
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I’m so happy that you do truly love the Lord
Comment by Ken Pierpont on January 12th, 2007 @ 11:04 pmPlease remember the devil will try to change this