Posted on August 17, 2010 at 6:51am.
This is my prayer today Lord:
“I am trusting you and I am finding it hard. Not because of you but because life feels really big. I am trusting you for friends - give them light at the end of a tunnel. I am trusting you for family - encourage them today. I am trusting you for my day - give me wisdom. At the end of the day help me to still be trusting, even if it is hard.”
Posted on August 13, 2010 at 8:26am.
“Turn to me and be saved, all you ends of the earth; for I am God and there is no other.” - Isaiah 45:22
I find myself both comforted and frustrated at the truth of this verse. I am comforted because God offers me something that no one or nothing else can - salvation. I am frustrated because when life is falling apart and nothing makes sense, there is nowhere else to go. In those times when God appears to be silent and there is no end in sight to the struggle, trusting is so very hard.
Posted on August 11, 2010 at 2:22pm.
I was given a picture again today of the power and necessity of the Body of Christ. Funerals are always hard, even more so when someone takes their own life. How grateful I am that there is a strength that comes when believers care for and minister to those who are in need. How blessed I am to pastor a community of people who love well even in the most difficult of situations.
Posted on August 10, 2010 at 8:02am.
“He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.” Those are the words of the Psalmist in Psalm 147 and while I don’t know the circumstances under which he wrote, I do know that it fits the needs of many people today. So Lord that is my prayer today, for the many friends whose hearts are breaking, bring your healing to their lives.
Posted on August 6, 2010 at 6:35am.
If you have been following the blog over the last week or so, you know that my thoughts have come from Romans 12. So many of the verses have a feel of proverbs. They are short sayings calling us to action and to live a certain way. The question is how to accomplish living in those ways without it becoming an exhausting pressure to do more and more?
Paul begins the chapter with two incredible verses that hold the key for us to live like Christ calls us to without turning it into my ability to perform.
““Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God - this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.”
I need to be presenting all of my life, surrendered to the Holy Spirit on a daily basis. It is a surrender of my mind and not my will that begins the process of living life as God wants me to.
