Here's the link to the previous post...sorry I didn't get it in there! And I'm sorry about how super long it is...sometime you just have to "vent" and tell people what is burdening your little heart.
What a patient LORD we serve- especially when the very qualities He is perfect in are the very qualities He is working in us...to make us more like Him. This picture is of some notes I took about 4 months ago...recognizing my need to take my eyes away from self and to put my eyes on Him. It's so easy to focus on "self" when circumstances surround us and overwhelm us. And yet, the LORD clearly used Job as an example to show us weak people what trust in Him looks like! I love what Job said in 23:10- but He knows the way I take, when He has tried me I shall come forth as gold. And so- here I am ( 4 months later!) and can say that God knew my path and still knows my path! Recognizing that He is the Giver of Everything and our Refiner in every circumstances is a source of contentment. Contentment comes when we accept the place He has for us, knowing it's HIS best and HIS plan for us. Living in HIS plans can cause us to accept anything - whether it is explained or unexpl...
Streams In The Desert, May 22 He worketh ( Ps. 37:5) . The translation that we find in Young of "Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass," reads: "Roll upon Jehovah thy way; trust upon him: and he worketh." It calls our attention to the immediate action of God when we truly commit, or roll out of our hands into His, the burden of whatever kind it may be; a way of sorrow, of difficulty, of physical need, or of anxiety for the conversion of some dear one. "He worketh." When? Now. We are so in danger of postponing our expectation of His acceptance of the trust, and His undertaking to accomplish what we ask Him to do, instead of saying as we commit, "He worketh." "He worketh" even now; and praise Him that it is so. The very expectancy enables the Holy Spirit to do the very thing we have rolled upon Him. It is out of our reach. We are not trying to do it any more. "He worketh!" Let us tak...
This morning, I started to read a little booklet about the terms of commission for a follower of Jesus Christ. Our Lord and Savior has set terms that His disciples must follower. It is convicting to ask oneself, "Am I following His terms? Or am I following my terms?" Quotes from the booklet: 1. The Sovereignty of our Master "ALL authority is given unto me." Rejected, slain by man, He is now enthroned at God's right hand and made "both Lord and Christ," invested with absolute authority in every sphere. How will He use that authority? He will use it with sovereign grace for the blessing of the nations. Therefore He gathered His servants around Him and gave them their marching orders. 2. The Scope of Our Ministry "Make disciples of ALL the nations." His grace, because it is sovereign, leaps over the narrow confines of Israel, and the message of His blessing for man is carried to the nations and broadcast amongst the Ge...
Melissa...where are you? :P
ReplyDeleteHey girl,
ReplyDeleteThat's a pretty moving song, esp. with the video. We should talk sometime...soon! :)
Jenny K