As I stumbled through the dark house this morning
in the early morning hours
a heaviness is on my soul
and then
I stumbled upon an old journal entry
lost in my computer
and how it was what I needed to read
because
it reminded me
How Faithful God is
How Awesome God is
How God meets me
How God meets you
right where we are
providing me
providing you
with all that
we need
in the moment
no matter what we may be feeling in the moment
Because
He is
what
I am not
Because
He is
what
you are not...
A writing from yesteryear
but a writing
for today
because
God is about today
Breathing His Word
new every morning
into
our hearts....
May your heart be blessed~
Oh how the spirit of discouragement got the best of me last night.
After a great day of fellowship in my home,
a time of encouragement in the bible,
my house was emptied~
as my husband was off on a business trip
my children have all left the nest.
Just me and the neighbor’s cat.
Discouragement took over.
My head filling with failure words
Words of discouragement.
as I felt so alone
with just me, myself, and I.
A restless night, as did I sleep at all?
The morning sun woke me after an hour rest.
A new day
A new beginning.
yet
discouragement filled my head.
But...
as I peeled myself out of the bed,
I made an espresso
and grabbed the
bible
because
I needed Him.
I needed
The Him~
Whom I spoke of the day before to all who were at my home.
The Him~
Whom I know deep in my heart that
I have faith in.
Faith of the deepest kind.
The Faith~
in the "unseen" and not in the seen.
The Faith~
that is needed to please a loving God.
The Loving God~
Who all He asks is that we believe
In Him
especially in our
discouragement
in our
loneliness
in our
pain.
God put me to the test,
as He wants me to walk the talk.
To walk what my heart knows to be true.
If I relied on myself,
I will walk with a
spirit of discouragement
as
I can't do it~
Alone,
as
I can't do it~
without Him,
The Him
Who gives me all that I need to become all that He wants me to become.
So off to do what
I "can't do" with the
One
Who can do it for me.
I refuse to run away from the difficult,
even though that seems easier in the moment.
Thank you Lord
for the gentle reminder
from that day
in the past
to remind me
to
Put You in My Story
to remind you
to
Put Him in Your Story
so that
He can do
what we can't.
“Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. Philippians 3:12-14