August 21, 2005
It is easy to get lost in the mundane details of carnal life that we don't get lost in what God wants to do in and through us - in and through me. I worry about a lot of things that seem real important but distract me from eternal things.
I want to live for Jesus Christ. I keep planning my own path, however. What I'm going to do this hour and the next, and continually get back in determining my way of things, instead of keeping in step with His spirit.
Thank you my Lord for sustaining me in so many things that if You did not sustain, me and my family would really be in trouble. Teach me to trust You more. Help my eye to be fixed upon You. Help me not to take back what I have already entrusted to You. Help me to wait.
I was encouraged by these verses (approximate, as they are by memory): "don't be slothful, but be like those who through faith and patience inherit the promises;" "don't be weary in well doing, for in due time you shall reap if you don't give up;" and "by this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit." Inherit, Reap and Bear. Not much activity on my part. Lots on God's part.
It was after Abraham patiently endured that he obtained the promise. I need to stay still and continue to believe in what God has prompted me to believe. To patiently wait for it, for Him who is faithful to deliver. Not that the thing that we are waiting for is an ultimate prize, but He is our ultimate prize and we believe Him and He is not ashamed to be called our God.
"...who through faith and patience inherited the promises (Heb 6:12)."
I am waiting for God to draw my daughter back into relationship with Him and I think God has been prompting me to believe that He is doing that currently, and that she will be restored soon. I believe that God has created Brent to be in our family, and one thing is for sure, if he is to be in our family, God will have to deliver him into our hands. I love that guy and it is God who has given me that love and then taken the boy away because God needs me to know who owns him. I think that God is going to work in our household financially to be responsible stewards of our finances. He has held us together financially all of these years to show me that He is trustable. He has sustained us and if it were not for Him, we would have a different outcome. If it were not for God's sustaining, I would be divorced and bankrupt. But God has held our marriage together and created me to be a wife and has shown me that God is dependable - not because our marriage and finances are upheld, but because whatever God wants to do in my life is acceptable because I know He is trustable. He has taught me that I can trust in Him with all of my heart, and I am not to lean on my own understanding. He has shown me that in ALL my ways, I need to acknowedge Him, and He will direct my path and that is moment by moment and day by day, hour by hour, prayer by prayer. By the way, anybody know how to out a spell-check on this thing? God bless you.
I want to live for Jesus Christ. I keep planning my own path, however. What I'm going to do this hour and the next, and continually get back in determining my way of things, instead of keeping in step with His spirit.
Thank you my Lord for sustaining me in so many things that if You did not sustain, me and my family would really be in trouble. Teach me to trust You more. Help my eye to be fixed upon You. Help me not to take back what I have already entrusted to You. Help me to wait.
I was encouraged by these verses (approximate, as they are by memory): "don't be slothful, but be like those who through faith and patience inherit the promises;" "don't be weary in well doing, for in due time you shall reap if you don't give up;" and "by this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit." Inherit, Reap and Bear. Not much activity on my part. Lots on God's part.
It was after Abraham patiently endured that he obtained the promise. I need to stay still and continue to believe in what God has prompted me to believe. To patiently wait for it, for Him who is faithful to deliver. Not that the thing that we are waiting for is an ultimate prize, but He is our ultimate prize and we believe Him and He is not ashamed to be called our God.
"...who through faith and patience inherited the promises (Heb 6:12)."
I am waiting for God to draw my daughter back into relationship with Him and I think God has been prompting me to believe that He is doing that currently, and that she will be restored soon. I believe that God has created Brent to be in our family, and one thing is for sure, if he is to be in our family, God will have to deliver him into our hands. I love that guy and it is God who has given me that love and then taken the boy away because God needs me to know who owns him. I think that God is going to work in our household financially to be responsible stewards of our finances. He has held us together financially all of these years to show me that He is trustable. He has sustained us and if it were not for Him, we would have a different outcome. If it were not for God's sustaining, I would be divorced and bankrupt. But God has held our marriage together and created me to be a wife and has shown me that God is dependable - not because our marriage and finances are upheld, but because whatever God wants to do in my life is acceptable because I know He is trustable. He has taught me that I can trust in Him with all of my heart, and I am not to lean on my own understanding. He has shown me that in ALL my ways, I need to acknowedge Him, and He will direct my path and that is moment by moment and day by day, hour by hour, prayer by prayer. By the way, anybody know how to out a spell-check on this thing? God bless you.
posted by An Ordinary Christian | 7:00 PM
2 Comments:
Hi O.C. - I just wanted to return the visit and check out your blog. Thank you so much for sharing your insights on my blog this evening! I think the first best thing about writing a blog is finding a place to air feelings and discover new thoughts. The second best thing is all of the awesome people I have met here...glad to meet you and I hope you stop by The Faith Expedition often.
Blessings, Becky
hi there! thanks for stopping by. i really appreciate it. as i always say, there's nothing impossible with God. we can put our trust in Him in everything - our marriage, our finances, everything. He's always there to guide us.
hope you can drop by again on My Blog.
God bless!
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