It's a typical day in the new reality of having a start-up business. Trying to keep focused on the tasks at hand like paying bills, taking care of HR, and correct journal entries, while doing laundry, preparing dinner, cleaning the house, honoring church commitments and spending time with the Lord.
And it's there, at the bottom of my list, that I find solace every day. God designed us to need to refuel with him every day. Satan tries to distract us with fatigue, over-sheduling and being task-oriented so that we ignore God. We set him aside for those things that are seemingly more important. Re-read that. Yep, we do it, and it grieves our gracioius Father.
I'm taking a break to go over what I heard on the radio, read on my email devotionals, and glanced over as I skimmed a completed study. Here it goes: God wants us to cry out to him like David did. It's how we put him first and give ourselves up to his mercy and grace. When we remove God from our life, like at school, we fall away from him and into the devil's plan. God has an incredible plan for each of us, even when we can't see the whole picture. We must worship him, and we do this by doing everything for his glory and letting his light shine through us so that others see him.
So what am I to do with the daily messages that blow through my brain? I finally realized that I will never be a perfect Christian. But when I study the Bible every day and spend quiet time with him, God is my focus and my reason for living. I will have moments of revelation and moments of remembering. It's about God working in my life and my honoring him.
Let us not feel guilty about not being productive when we spend time with God, alone in prayer and study. Reframe it and think of how incredibly blessed we are to have a personal appearance with the King of Creation any time we want it.
Amen
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Faithfulness
I don't know how to thank God. There aren't enough words to express my immense gratitude for what he has done for me, and for what he does for me daily. I search the scriptures, looking for answers. And I find that it's me. He wants me, everything I am, everything I have. Every thought, every action, every word.
With this I write about his faithfulness. We read stories about God's faithfulness, from Genesis to Revelation. We often forget to take the time to reflect on our lives to see that nothing has changed. Why would it?!
We finally have a buyer for our house! It has been two and a half years, and it looks like it will be sold. We prayed about moving for a year. We finally decided to take a leap of faith and buy the house without selling ours first. Three months went by, then six, nine. Wow! At one year, God brought us a family to rent the house. They took care of it and loved it like their own. What a blessing!
The year was up, and we relisted the house. Six months later, it will be sold. The buyers are so excited about it, and I am thrilled that they will be building a life in the house that holds so many precious memories for us.
This waiting represents so much for me. I fasted and prayed for three and a half years to get to this point. Sounds silly, doesn't it? For a house? But it was about seeking God's will in my life. It was about trusting him with everything I have. I didn't stress about this because I knew God would provide and that I needed to trust in his plan. It taught me to pray in his timing, not mine. It reinforced that praying and reading the Bible lead to taking the stories of his past faithfulness as truth in my life today.
So I am thankful for the house selling, but it's the rich blessing of knowing without a doubt that God is with me and caring for me that is the best. It is seeing that he is making me into more than I was before.Take time to see the Lord's faithfulness throughout your life and rejoice in his favor.
With this I write about his faithfulness. We read stories about God's faithfulness, from Genesis to Revelation. We often forget to take the time to reflect on our lives to see that nothing has changed. Why would it?!
We finally have a buyer for our house! It has been two and a half years, and it looks like it will be sold. We prayed about moving for a year. We finally decided to take a leap of faith and buy the house without selling ours first. Three months went by, then six, nine. Wow! At one year, God brought us a family to rent the house. They took care of it and loved it like their own. What a blessing!
The year was up, and we relisted the house. Six months later, it will be sold. The buyers are so excited about it, and I am thrilled that they will be building a life in the house that holds so many precious memories for us.
This waiting represents so much for me. I fasted and prayed for three and a half years to get to this point. Sounds silly, doesn't it? For a house? But it was about seeking God's will in my life. It was about trusting him with everything I have. I didn't stress about this because I knew God would provide and that I needed to trust in his plan. It taught me to pray in his timing, not mine. It reinforced that praying and reading the Bible lead to taking the stories of his past faithfulness as truth in my life today.
So I am thankful for the house selling, but it's the rich blessing of knowing without a doubt that God is with me and caring for me that is the best. It is seeing that he is making me into more than I was before.Take time to see the Lord's faithfulness throughout your life and rejoice in his favor.
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