katie rose writes

This is just a glimpse into my story. I wrote it in preparation to speak at a church, and the Father told me to share it here. It is my prayer that He impacts your story with it. He is the God who writes our stories, the God who desires greater things than we can ever dream, the God who gives every minute purpose. Trust Him with your story. "I thank Him who has given me strength, Christ Jesus our Lord, because He judged me faithful, appointing me to His service...and the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus...to the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen." 1 Timothy 1.12, 14, 17 I grew up hearing about Jesus. I received Him as my Savior at a young age, and I knew Him as my best friend. I knew all He did for me, but no one told me how this relationship worked day in & day out. No one taught me to seek Him or that He was seeking me. So, although He drew me near that...

Today, I found myself reading the passage that the url-link of this blog was inspired by. "I-must-decrease" comes from John 3. John testifies to a Jew who questions John's baptism vs. Jesus' baptism. John speaks of his joy, his joy made complete because of Jesus' coming. And John's joy beautifully humbles him to see Jesus once again as greater, and so he begins to step back. "He must increase, but I must decrease." I've long echoed that sentiment, desiring a humble heart that seeks Christ more than itself. I repeat John's words as a prayer over my tired heart. Because pride does nothing but empty me and fill nothing. "For this is how God so loved the world." And this is how He so loves me today. By allowing me to hear a greater truth than the self-condemnation I tend to twist around His Word like a noose.  John speaks this famous statement from an overflow of joy. He is so overjoyed by his place in Jesus' story as "t...