sincere thoughts
So many things in life have gone topsy turvy over the last couple months. I asked a friend, “What is God doing if EVERYTHING in life that you thought was secure is falling apart?” Her response? “God is rearranging, sanctifying, maturing you, and giving you an opportunity to practice what you learned in the last season.” Huh… So this season is a test. If I can label this time as such, perhaps I can see a productive way through it.
These past months have challenged me in every way. I think back to my prayers and my declarations of the previous season. “I will go anywhere. I will do anything. I am yours, God. You are enough for me.” But around every bend of surrender is an opportunity to walk it out. God begins to form and fashion times and places to live inside what we confess. Were my words merely words, or will I rise to the challenge? Can I walk this narrow road? Can I get through this storm if Jesus is sleeping? Will my faith arise and see me through? Three months ago God said to me, “ABIDE.” I was in a happy place. I took it as a reminder from Him to make sure I am spending time with Him. I know now I took it lighter than He meant it. I didn’t know that my happy place would be shattered in a matter of days. But when it was, I crumbled. By speaking that word to me, God was calling me to abide in Him. Not seek MYSELF or my own desires, but HIM and His desires. He wanted me to find my identity and purpose in HIM alone...especially when life's storms rage. Abiding in Him means my flesh is in pain. But God isn’t concerned with pleasing my flesh. What He IS interested in is forming LOVE in me. He desires to see His very nature/image in and through my life. He is interested in using the life (the one I profess to yield to Him) for His purposes in revealing LOVE to this world...to be a shining LIGHT into the dark world in which I live. This only will occur if I'm abiding in HIM... Oh God, I choose to abide in You...
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