Every morning when I get up, before I even drink my first cup of coffee, I sit down to read the Bible. I have learned that I need to drink in God’s word first thing in the morning to start my day off right. This morning I decided to take a break from my old testament reading of 2 Samuel and to skim through the Bible to look for special passages that I had highlighted. I prayed for God to show me what He wanted me to see this morning. I knew from the first passage that I came across that I would share this in my blog. When I feel God showing me something that encourages me, I want to share that with the world. So I hope that what I will share this morning will uplift you as it uplifted me this morning. I am sharing from the message Bible.
“If I acted crazy, I did it for God; if I acted overly serious, I did it for you. Christ’s love has moved me to such extremes. His love has the first and last word in everything we do.” 2 Corinthians 5:14.
When I read the verse above, I thought of The Well Church and how we have a group of people so in love with God that we want to share it with absolutely everyone. Yesterday I felt like I got too emotional worrying over a friend who was rushed to the hospital. I have been trying to be consistent with my faith by praying and giving things to God. When I let the enemy affect me with worry instead of letting go and letting God take over, I get frustrated with myself. When I read this passage it was like God saying to me, it’s okay that you love people as I love you. Don’t be so hard on yourself.
“Don’t fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting god know your concerns.” Philippians 4: 6
This is what I know God wants and He knows that I’m trying. I am working on letting go of all of my worry about things of this Earth and giving it to God. I have so many things that I want to accomplish that I know are part of God’s calling on my life. The only way that I can do all of it is by following God’s path and not my own. His will, not my will be done.
“What a God we have! And how fortunate we are to have him, this Father of our master Jesus! Because Jesus was raised from the dead, we’ve been given a brand-new life and have everything to live for, including a future in heaven-and the future starts now! God is keeping careful watch over us and the future. The day is coming when you’ll have it all-life healed and whole. “ 1 Peter 1:3
This reminds me of something I said to someone last night at a meeting. They were talking about death and I said that I wasn’t scared to die because I think that life in heaven is going to be better than what we have on this Earth. I believe that and it is my hope and peace that keeps me going on the worst of days and the best of days. I am here on this earth because God is using me to further his kingdom in heaven. God has a purpose and a plan for my life and I will do my humanly best to follow that plan to the letter until the day He calls me home. I firmly believe that when I am in heaven in the presence of God that I am going to be so beyond any happiness that I have ever known on this earth that I will not give a second thought to what I didn’t do on this earth. I will thank God for giving me the gifts that He used through me to change lives and bring more people to know him.
I hope that you enjoyed reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it. I wrote from my heart this morning and it helped me as I wrote it. Have a blessed day!
July 27, 2010 at 8:41 pm |
Thank you so much…this is great.