May 29, 2009 at 9:27 am (God Concept)
I have recently been asking God to open my eyes to His love. He is doing just that, a little bit at a time. This morning I found myself singing a song that I learned a long time ago. It just popped into my head. That led me to this scripture, which the song is taken from. I hope it will encourage you as it did me this morning. God’s love is forever and constant; it never ends!
Remember my affliction and my wanderings,
the wormwood and the gall!
My soul continually remembers it
and is bowed down within me.
But this I call to mind,
and therefore I have hope:
The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases;
his mercies never come to an end;
they are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness.
“The LORD is my portion,” says my soul,
“therefore I will hope in him.”
Lamentations 3:19-24 (ESV)
~Rebecca:-)
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May 13, 2009 at 3:35 pm (God Concept)
God has been growing me in the area of honesty. (Psalm 62:8) I have often felt like a “good Christian” should never doubt God or question anything He says. So, in an effort to appear “good” (because I thought that’s what would earn love and acceptance), I have rarely voiced my doubts or questions, especially to God. The funny thing is God already knows all my doubts and questions. Nothing is hidden from Him. (Hebrews 4:13) Through a conversation with Him the other day, I saw that my being honest with Him allowed Him to come in and heal me. The conversation (not audible, but in my heart & mind) went something like this:
Me: I can’t be good all the time. I try so hard, but I just can’t. I’ll never be good enough.
God: It’s okay. I love you even when you mess up.
Me: That doesn’t make any sense! Other people get mad at me when I mess up. I get mad at other people when they do something wrong. How can you love me and not be angry at me when I fail?
God: I’m not like you. I love you even when you’re bad. I can watch you do things wrong and not be mad at you. I’m just different. I give you the freedom to fail.
Me: But, how can you do that? I don’t deserve to be loved!
God: I am GOD. I AM love. That’s just what I do.
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May 11, 2009 at 4:06 pm (Our Faith Journey)
Well, I may be sharing a good many of these because everytime I tell someone about the marathon and what I am writting about they help me come up with more lessons! Anyway….this is one I thought of on my own….acutally, the Holy Spirit had to have revealed this one!
As I mentioned in my post describing what all happened during the marathon I mentioned about our new friend Sally who ran the half marathon coming to the mile marker 21 or 22 post to cheer us on. As she ran out to meet me she ran along side me and encouraged me and offered to carry anything for me. Well, because I kept forgetting to give my shirt and nasty, sweaty, smelly socks to Tony at mile number 11 and then again at mile 19 I was still carrying them. As Sally ask me I immediately gave her my shirt and socks to carry! Now….you have to understand, the heat was intense so the shirt was soaked with sweat and the socks were, well…..completely NASTY and she carried them for me. Later that evening when my senses came back to me I realized what I had done and I was horrified that I had asked this person whom I had just met to do such a thing for me! She obviously offered and did not mind at all. Actually, the spirit with which she responded was that she was happy to do it! Imagine that….someone happy about hanging on to my smelly shirt and socks! As I thought about this I was reminded of one word….SERVANTHOOD! Her attitude was that of Christ Jesus’ attitude as referenced in Philippians 2. Check out these verses:
“Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but with humnility of mind let each of you regard one another as more important than himself; do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others. Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himslef by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.” Phil. 2:3-8
Wow….now that is a servant! What is your attitude like when it comes to servanthood?
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