All of my life, in every season, you are still God. I have a reason to sing. I have a reason to worship.

I just read this and I guess it resonates with things I've been thinking about lately. Too often I think we, as Christians, make a decision or an action in our lives and justify it by saying that this is what God wants us to do, or that it is an answer to prayer or what God has told us. Sure, sometimes it is, but when you suddenly change your mind and go a different direction altogether I begin to wonder how genuine the "call" was in the first place. Anyway, read on... And check out Edge Kingsland's free album if it's still on the Come&Live website. Magical kiwi worship music. Stamping God's Approval By Matt Bancroft "Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?' Then I will tell them plainly, 'I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!'"   Matthew 7:22-23 NIV  I THINK SOMETIMES we as Christians think we have a God stamp and we can go around stamping His name on whatever we want. As if we have the ability to just stamp God's name here or there and force His hand to move in whatever situation. Sometimes we are set in our ways, but out of duty we come before God and ask Him to place His stamp of approval on the decisions we have made. Other times we just do the stamping ourselves and forget God all together. As a body, the Church is almost too eager to place God's stamp of approval on a lot of things He might wish nothing to do with. God uses His stamp on people–and perhaps that is the point. He doesn't stamp a solution to your problem; he stamps you. To me this is much more comforting, to know that God is with me regardless of my circumstances or bad decisions. We weren't stamped, though, so that we could run around proclaiming that we are better than everyone else. That isn't what being a Christian is about and we shouldn't use our God stamp to promote any of it. The idea is to trust God and follow Him wherever He may lead.