That mean old devil (who's a liar by the way) is on a war path this week. I guess all of this talk about Easter and the reminders of what happened that weekend make him even angrier. Thus the war path and trying to see who can be devoured in the process. The enemy knows what buttons to push (after all most of the time we tell him exactly what upsets us, makes us feel a certain way etc.) Hello...words are powerful period. At some point that truth will be ingrained into my every hour, every minute....not just when I feel like it or after the fact. How much stronger we would be if we would just focus on God's truth and His truth alone.
We tie how we feel about ourselves to what we do(and most of the time how well we do it). The more I thought about that truth that I read this afternoon on FB the more it permeated the core of my heart. I'm so guilty of that. I let how the day goes(or even how a moment of the day transpires) affect how I see my performance of the day. Why oh why can't we wrap our hearts around how He sees us and just leave it at that? If we could just remember in those moments when the enemy wants to sow doubt and despair that the blood has that ground covered. The cross and the empty tomb mean that I can view my day through His lens. I can view my weaknesses as covered in blood. I can view my faults as forgiven. I can view my outside as royal.
Quit analyzing every detail of the day and ask yourself one question....Did you love? Did you let the flame that He lit burn and shine through? So many times we think we need to perform well for God to approve, when in reality we just need to be who He called us to be. God's not looking to mark off a check list, He's looking at your heart. He knows what motivates you, what drives you, what consumes your thoughts at night. He knows why He put you on the journey you are on right now. There is no confusion or chaos when He's involved, only peace and fruit. Let that sink in......God has a plan of peace and a plan of good, not of confusion, worry, or chaos.
Oh me...as the title of this blog is so wonderfully worded. Oh me I started off the week strong and today started to flounder a bit. I let the analyzing, worry, and reasoning start to ease their way in to a field that was ripe for planting. God did a work last week...just me and Him. Things I had asked Him to answer during the summer, He started answering last week. Requests that I had been praying for awhile started taking shape last week...Last week was a revelation week of band-aids coming off and God doing what only He could do. The more God strengthens us for the next leg of the journey, the more we press forward into battle. God didn't call us to sit on the sidelines and watch as a spectator. He called us to engage and press forward to the prize of the High calling.
I want to finish well and finish strong. Strong not by my definition, but strong by His definition. To do that I've got to get the oh me's out of the way. I've got to keep the heart protected with the truth and the mind focused on what He says about me(which is what I need to speak about me). Strength is not developed just sitting around. You can't gain muscle by laying on the couch all day, every day. It takes movement(which sometimes hurts...) I'm not perfect, trust me. I fall down multiple times a day and still have a whole book of lessons I need to master. I'm a princess who loves her some Grace and is humbled that He gives it consistently and so freely. (Pretty sure with a chuckle and smile sometimes because I knew better...). I'm on this journey which is spinning on my Potter's wheel. As I take the trip around He is molding me and shaping me to be more like Him. It's painful at times and to be honest sometimes it takes more than one spin around to get it right, but I'm learning. I wish some of this had took earlier in life, but I'm thankful for the truth that is becoming rooted now. Trust is knowing who has it all planned out....(and knowing it's not YOU!).
Until next time....
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