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Making Adjustments

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I read this ear­lier and thought, how often do we allow the cares of the day to steal our joy, or for that mat­ter, God’s plan for our day? Some­times we have to make adjust­ments, which may mean we have to say no to the things God has not cho­sen for us, but in doing so, we are freed to ful­fill His purpose.

“The lit­tle cares which fret­ted me
I lost them yes­ter­day,
Among the fields, above the sea,
Among the winds at play,
Among the low­ing of the herds,
The rustling of the trees,
Among the singing of the birds,
The hum­ming of the bees.
The fool­ish fear of what might hap­pen,
I cast them all away
Among the clover-scented grass,
Among the husk­ing of the corn,
Where drowsy pop­pies nod
Where ill thoughts die and good are born–
Out in the fields with God. ”

 –Eliz­a­beth Bar­rett Browning

 

Your eyes will see the King in his beauty and view a land that stretches afar. –Isa­iah 33:17

 God bless,

gh ;) 

 

Imagine

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What good does it do to obsess over our faults? A dear friend pointed out that the dis­ease of intro­spec­tion is actu­ally an attempt to stay in con­trol. Are we enjoy­ing life when we are pre­oc­cu­pied with our flaws? In those times of crit­i­cal think­ing, do we lash out at those clos­est to us? Do we accept the lie that things will never change? And then eat, sleep too much, over­spend, abuse alco­hol, or escape through tele­vi­sion to lighten the load? (To name a few crutches.)

Only God can change us. The Word says; but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. — Isa­iah 40:31.

Imag­ine if we stopped tak­ing our­selves so seriously…would we reap what we sow? Would dis­cour­age­ment and depres­sion cease to rob us of our energy? Some­times the things we think are our worst flaws, God will use to His great­est glory. But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’”

Jesus died so that we might enjoy our life in abun­dance and to the fullest until it over­flows. How can we enjoy life if we don’t enjoy our­selves? Change will come…in God’s per­fect timing.

In the mean­time, we can choose to ask God to help us. And we can start each new day by speak­ing words of life.

This is the day the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. Psalm 118:24

God bless,

–gh

P.S. ILYEH

I Am No Surprise

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Why is it when I stum­ble, or take a fall I end up feel­ing like I’ve let God down? His word says, “I knew you before I formed you in your mother’s womb. Before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as my prophet to the nations.” –Jere­miah 1:5

God’s word tells me I’m no sur­prise. Nor are my choices. Good or bad. The idea that He knows when (not if) I’m going to stum­ble and still loves me bog­gles my mind. Thus His admo­ni­tion, “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nei­ther are your ways my ways,” declares the LORD. –Isa­iah 55:8

When I make those poor choices, and I’m deeply con­flicted, I find myself empathiz­ing with Paul. “I do not under­stand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin liv­ing in me. I know that noth­ing good lives in me, that is, in my sin­ful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I can­not carry it out. For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin liv­ing in me that does it.  So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; but I see another law at work in the mem­bers of my body, wag­ing war against the law of my mind and mak­ing me a pris­oner of the law of sin at work within my mem­bers. What a wretched man I am! Who will res­cue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in the sin­ful nature a slave to the law of sin.” –Romans 7:15–25

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