It's Personal

    

To this point, my blogs have been general. This one will be different.  This one is personal.  Years ago I made a choice that put me in a situation.  It's not a sinful situation, just a difficult one.  It was a choice that I made years ago out of stubbornness, self sufficiency, and plain old ignorance.   My family tried to redirect me.  Friends of mine talked to me.  In hindsight I now know that God also dropped me several hints trying to give me clarity.  I chose to do things my way.  Today, years later, the decision that I made then still affects me.  I have grown so much since then but sometimes I find myself reverting.  When I feel like God isn't moving quick enough and I want the situation fixed now and fixed my way, I fall back into stubbornness, self sufficiency, and plain old ignorance again.  Well, we've probably all heard it said...to have something different you have to do something different.  My hands fashioned this mess and if I put my hands back in it the most I can do is refashion the mess. But it will still be...a mess.  So today I am choosing to do something different.  I am choosing to give it to God, with no allowances for myself to take it back into my own hands.  God's word says if we call on him he will answer us and show us great and unsearchable things we don't know.  It also says that he is a very present help.  I believe that's true.  So I when I finish writing this and click the orange publish button, I won't just be posting today's blog.  I am declaring my belief that God's word applies even to this situation.  This is a post of faith. 

 

I am sure you are wondering what the situation is.  Like I said, it's personal and to go in depth could be offensive for someone very important in my life.  So in the meantime, stand with me in prayer that I won't get in the way of God handling this thing for me. Then meet me back here each Sunday...because an in depth praise report is coming.

 

Scripture:

Psalm 46:1       

God is our refuge and strength. A very present help in trouble

Jeremiah 33:3  

Call on me and I will answer thee and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.

Psalm 46:10     

Be still and know that I am God:

 

Prayer:

God you are my refuge and strength.  You are an ever present help in trouble.  I am calling on you. Help me to not get in the way of you helping me. Amen.