Wow God.. I can look back on the things I have written in the past year and say how things have changed and how things are the same. I still cry out to you... asking for wisdom and your will in my life. I see where you have come through even in the past year and brought restoration to friendships and I praise you for that. Though I still do care for people deeply and have fears they will go away.. I heard in a sermon that if "People quit on you they don't deserve you." That is sooo true. I want to believe that. Lately it seems I've grown closer to you had more peace and trust in you. I want that to stay. Today and other days this week I feel I have been a little down worrying again what people think of me... but who by worrying can add a single cubit to their stature... you know... my paraphrase of Matthew 6. You clothe the lily in the field and give birds places to live.. why do I worry? I can meet an incredible person and think wow they are awesome, have a great heart and yet turn around and think about if they thought I was an awesome person in return. I can only be myself. I keep hearing that. First started with James telling me that during the summer. Then Yesterday I had two others... random others telling me that as well. BE MYSELF.. Okay I'm doing that... I'm not ashamed to do that anymore. But I know Satan wants to make me believe "myself" is no good. well thats false.. I want the counteract the lies that creep up with THE TRUTH... THE TRUTH... THE truth only comes from your word and I want to build my foundation on you.... the solid rock... so that when storms in this life come. I can stand firm and not be swept away. I've been listening to alot of Joshua Eze videos lately and to tell you the truth I've been encouraged and convicted. IT was the one yesterday about insecurities that brings me to the topic of today. What is our foundation on? We got to get our foundation right.. we need to read the bible more and apply the word to our hearts and our lives. OH GOD GIVE ME MORE A DESIRE FOR YOUR WORD!! I wanna get my house ready and LORD your foundation is the start of it... Come inside my heart and take over and be the rock that I can cling to in all the storms.. OH Lord an oldy but goody is coming to my mind right now...
"My Hope is Built on Nothing Less"
by Edward Mote, 1797-1874
1. My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus' blood and righteousness;
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly lean on Jesus' name.
On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand;
All other ground is sinking sand.
2. When darkness veils His lovely face,
I rest on His unchanging grace;
In every high and stormy gale
My anchor holds within the veil.
On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand;
All other ground is sinking sand.
3. His oath, His covenant, and blood
Support me in the whelming flood;
When every earthly prop gives way,
He then is all my Hope and Stay.
On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand;
All other ground is sinking sand.
4. When He shall come with trumpet sound,
Oh, may I then in Him be found,
Clothed in His righteousness alone,
Faultless to stand before the throne!
On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand;
All other ground is sinking sand.
YES LORD YES!! ON CHRIST, the solid Rock, I stand; ALL OTHER GROUND IS SINKING SAND.. May that be true and evident in my life. Thank you for the encouragement that comes from you and from others you have placed in my life. I love you and help me to write more and more for your glory..
AMEN
Matthew 6:25-34
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[e]?
28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
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