Acts 17:20 The Areopagus said to Paul: You bring some strange things to our ears.
Five years ago, when God awakened my heart, it was as though scales fell off my eyes and ears. Things that were once solid became strange to me. No more! God's Word on suffering and sovereignty is no longer strange to me.
Paul told the men of Athens that they looked religious in every way. Wonder what Paul would say to our churches today? But the God you worship is not served by human hands. He gave you life and breath and everything. Acts 17:27 ~ He determined the boundaries of where you would live and that you should seek God in the hope that you feel your way toward Him and find Him. He is not far from you.
So, how can we feel our way toward Him this day? I'm groping in the dark and not letting go of what I feel coming from good places in my heart.
As I seek Him for my purpose here on earth, with the years I have left, He is showing me little by little, step by step. At times when I doubt that I have any value to Him or am even able to hear Him, He has stepped in and spoken in that quiet voice in the inner part of our beings and prompted me to do this and then to do that. He has shown me on how I am to bite my tongue and be a "servant" to my husband, thus being a servant to Him. I know this doesn't make a lot of sense without all of the fill in facts that have led me to this, but suffice it to say, I am striving to listen in my own feeble way and He is speaking and I am attempting to follow.
ReplyDeleteI am afraid that too many in our churches, especially in the United States are not really living for Him, but are only trying to work their way to heaven or even a better place. The church needs to wake up and seek Him and listen to what He says and not what the world says. We are worshiping the wrong god, there is only One true God and we do not treat Him and His word as holy as we should.
Our sweet Sally is in a waiting mode right now. Her latest update said nothing about another spinal tap, they are weaning her off of steriods and I believe they are trying to give her worn out body some rest. She still has some pressure in her head and she is extremely tired. She is going to start some PT because her muscles are beginning to atrophy. The greatest desire of her heart is to live to raise the baby that He allowed her to have and to grow old with her new husband. Bless you for every prayer you have said for this child of God.
Stay cool if you are like me and are living where the temps are extremely high. Rest in His grace and arms today.
Thank you for the words of wisdom, Mary Lou. You put into words so many things I struggle with every day, like not saying things I shouldn't. I wonder, also about the walk, do I make a difference, and what will Jesus say when I meet Him are two questions I think about.
ReplyDeleteWe are praying for Sally and her family. Thank you for updating us.
27 that they should seek God, in the hope that they might feel their way toward him and find him.(X) Yet he is actually not far from each one of us, 28for'In him we live and move and have our being';as even some of your own poets have said,'For we are indeed his offspring.'
ReplyDeleteThese two verses really speak to me. 1)That I am made in the image of God. 2) That God is always in front, beside, on top, and under me whether I recognize Him or not. Lord, forgive my complacey. I praise you for the WORD and how on a daily basis when I look to you the scales can be removed and I can be a more effective vessel for you. The fact you tell us to come to you just as we are and your love covers my sins as I repent of my ways.
Mary Lou, thank you for expressing many of my other thoughts so well.
Grace and Peace. This is a Song I must Sing. Sylvia
Mary Lou - you do honor Him so as a holy God!
ReplyDeleteJan - you are always so very honest and just beautiful!
Sylvia - I listen hard when you write out of your beautiful heart!
Who else is out there this day??
May you find your help from the God of Jacob who is here in July looking for you! Me too!
Mary Lou - you do honor Him so as a holy God!
ReplyDeleteJan - you are always so very honest and just beautiful!
Sylvia - I listen hard when you write out of your beautiful heart!
Who else is out there this day??
May you find your help from the God of Jacob who is here in July looking for you! Me too!
Checking in this evening. I don't have a clue how women work full-time and keep up with all the things on our lists. I'm so out of my element working as office manager this week at the ranch. At one point, I told God that I don't even like people enough, much less show them Gods love.
ReplyDeleteAs I said a prayer for Sally just now, I thought about my own two girls, and it just broke my heart to picture this sweet young daughter, mother, wife hurting the way she has. It does make you struggle with purpose and meanin, Mary Lou. I can't begin to imagine. Just praying tonight for more of Him infused in this life to see it through.
So tired, yet so grateful tonight for so much. My girl, Lauren makes it home tomorrow from a very, long, trip from S Africa. Please pray for her good health especially. I struggle with fear for her since her seizure when she traveled last. Just brings back a lot of memories. He's so faithful, through it all. She will be home tomorrow afternoon.
Good night Pearls. God bless you and keep you safe through the dark and into the mornings of His presence and love.