Recieve what you’re given and trust the Lord for all that is needed–He will make the best of it.
A Laboring Life
2009Jan5 at 0122 (Personal Life, Statements)
Tags: God, labor, need, receive, trust, will of God
Restlessness and Anticipation
2008Nov15 at 1146 (Personal Life, Thinkables)
Tags: absolute, anticipation, come, confession, confidence, death, endurance, eternal, faith, glory, God, heart, honor, knowledge, lasting, life, promise, restlessness, savior, search, trust, truth, value, will of God
All my young life I’ve been searching for something. Consistently unsatisfied with the things I approach; with the direction they are going–they never last; they never have absolute value; they never have true honor; they never have lasting glory; they always die.
I want to be in something eternal, but I don’t trust it. So I hold on… to save myself.
“Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise:
‘For yet a little while,
And he who is coming will come and not tarry.
Now the just shall live by faith;
But if anyone draws back,
My soul has no pleasure in him.’ ” -to the Hebrews
The cure of this restless heart lies in the confidence of it’s confession.
Do I trust this God? I do not understand Him, how can I endure His will?
Do I believe the words of His son? Do I know Him?
I must.
A Glimpse of the Present
2008Aug30 at 0849 (Personal Life)
Tags: appeal to God, building, habits, obedience, patience, preparation, slave, strength, trust, vision, wait, weakness
God is taking those areas in which I have weakness and building them up so that they must be habitually strengthened (i.e. physical fitness with the military, ROTC). This in in preparation of the future.
Lord, give me the vision for what You have planned, no rather the the patience to wait on You. In trust and obedience I will be blessed–do as You will, show as you will, I am Your (willing) slave.
Reflecting on the Anticipation of Enormous Endeavors
2008Aug30 at 0808 (Personal Life)
Tags: appearances, empower, free, heal, limitless, obey, submission, trust, unity
May trust and obedience be a blessing to me; not to balk at the appearance of limiting circumstances, materials or character. Because these are not founded in what appears to men, but they are founded in Christ, who is limitless in His appeals to the Father (who creates truth with the words of His mouth). And this Christ works all things, through the Spirit, into submission of the Father’s kingdom, power and glory for all eternity. And by the Father’s grace, I am freed, healed and empowered to abide in Christ and He in me, that I may be of one mind with them.
I have in everything to trust and obey.
