Believe Him

How did I change?  When did it happen?  The sanctification process...I can see it is happening.  I am a new creature in Christ.  My mind is renewing.

There was anger because I had to do something all the time. There was never time to rest or do things that I wanted.  Each minute was needed to meet some basic need it seemed.  Not a want but a need.  At least that is how I saw it then.

Now years later what would I have done different?  I learned that people relationships are important, that they make a difference.  I learned that some things really didn't take that long to do.  I moaned about having to do it longer than it actually took.  It was all in my attitude.

My attitude was one of me-ism.  "I" was doing it all.  "I" never got to sit down.  "I" need to do this to be happy.  "I" need to do that to have a happy family. 
To get happy was the priority.

This changed, worshiping this god of happiness.  I learned that God did not put us on this earth to be happy.  To be happy is not our goal.  To glorify God is my goal now.  To live a life that honors Him and furthers His Kingdom is my aim now. 

I was sinking.  The trials were pulling me down into a sea of lies about how to live this life.  To keep my head above the water was a daily chore.  I needed to reach the lifeboat of truth.

The truth that is found in His Word.  The truth that is real strength for the journey.  The truth that mends relationships and raises godly men and women.  His truth is power to fight the me-ism that can keep us drowning in life.

He speaks to each one of us in our own unique situation with the truth of His Word.  The bible is the living Word of God.  It speaks to your crisis and tells you exactly what you need to hear during that specific time. This is how you can know His leading and feel His love and peace.  He speaks to your heart when you read His Word.

How can God love millions of people like each one is His only child?  He loves us just like a mother loves her newborn infant.  Everything is about that baby to a new mother.  She will not allow anything to harm that baby.  Her life revolves around the baby's care.  A mother will protect her baby with a fierce anger because of her love.  God gave that intense protective drive to her.

How could God create these qualities in the human mother and not have that intense protective love for His own children?  How could anything we do as parents for our own children be better than what the creator of all things would do for us, His children?

He loves us more than we can understand.  God does not need us to understand.  He only wants us to BELIEVE.



Hebrews 4:12  AMP  "For the Word that God speaks is alive and full of power (making it active, operative, energizing, and effective); it is sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating to the dividing line of the breath of life (soul) and (the immortal) spirit, and of joints and marrow (of the deepest parts of our nature), exposing and sifting and analyzing and judging the very thoughts and purposes of the heart."