Redeeming my time

Thinking on Habekkuk 3 and trusting in the goodness of God. It is so easy to be busy for the Lord. By God's grace I hope to have a balance in spending time with Christ, learning about Christ, and serving. I was able to speak to a godly older man about it. He is older with children my age. God is doing a work in him, and has been a believer more than a decade. Anyway he said something that will stick with me to know Christ more, to spend time with Christ is what he prays for the people that he knows. I have been blessed by that. I will pray that for the people I know, and those who Christ redeemed on the earth. May God conform me to the image of his Son.

What God taught me?

Where is this one guy in my small group who always says from the book of John this is eternal life that they might know you the one true God and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. I need him to do a work in me. To take away any idol that clings to me. God is a holy God. He will make me so.

Seen

I usually to work dress in a very businesslike fashion. I work in a job where I have to be professional and very detail oriented. On Fridays I usually dress in the same manner. Today however I dressed in a more casual manner stylish. Yet I realize now that according to how you dress people treat you in a different manner. I was treated in a way that was uncourteous. This is wrong and yet I am not mad it saddens me the manner that people treat others if they are assumed to be in another class. So people do not care if they treat others in a manner that seems downright rude. Yet I will not behave like them. If they are poor or rich. Whatever clothes they wear. I hope to treat them in a manner worthy of Christ by His work in me.

Mara/Naomi

I used to read Ruth and want to have Boaz to come along see me. I realize something. I am not Ruth who forsakes family and home to follow after Naomi. Who serves diligently that another may eat. I am Mara bitter who brings my complaints before God and sometimes my friends. I wish I could always serve in joy and not in half sorrow. I do not know what my future brings yet I pray that He who loves me and betrothed me to Himself in righteousness. Who considers me though I in my human state have nothing to love or cherish. Yet by His Spirit He has adorned me. Though I am not lovely or beautiful by human standards. He sees me as such and before God robed in the perfect life of God, crowned by the deeds He has for me to do by the regeneration of the Holy Spirit I will be beautiful. May God do with my life as He wills.

God working

It has been such a blessing to see God strengthen weak believers. So good to see God draw people together. God showing me His grace and mercy. It has been so amazing. I have had the opportunity to tell people the Gospel. There are so many people who are deceived and I do not know how to combat it except maybe to hide more scripture within. God's word is so powerful. The Gospel is the power of God onto salvation. It is the sword of the Spirit and without a balance of theology and passion, your faith can be cold but full of knowledge, or it can be "spiritual", a "burning in the bosom", yet be filled with rank heresy and following after the wrong Jesus. Praise be to the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. 

1 Peter 1:3-4

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, whoaccording to His great mercy has caused us to be born again toa living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to obtain an inheritance which is imperishable and undefiled and will not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, 

Sola Gracia

I have been taken aback time and time again by the grace of God in my life. Somehow I have been blessed with people in my life after so many years of doing the lone ranger Christian thing. (Theme song going through my head). It was a busy day and I took a nap. I am only 27 and I stopped to take a nap (smiling). God has given me grace when in the past I would have shaking my fist at God. He is my portion. I was in fellowship with a lady I met while at a friends place. She was so much bolder than I was and I realized something. Truth in love filled with the scripture given by God has an edge to it. I am trusting today that God has everything planned my only recourse is to seek Him, in prayer, in reading the Bible, in fellowship with other believers. To God be the Glory. "Whom have I in heaven but You and earth has nothing I desire but You my flesh and my heart may fail however the Lord is my Portion forever." 

Friendship and fellowship

What can I say about this. I do not like being vulnerable I do not like showing others areas of my character that would be hated. God help me I am so afraid of letting people in because I know they will let me down. God knows me inside out. He knows my fantasies, and wishes, my sarcasm, rooted in sin. My hope is in Jesus. Yesterday I spent some time with women who treat me as a daughter. I do not know why I am being emotional. I spent the day with two different groups of woman and I have to sat I like being steamrolled. Ok I will get them done and will get my ears pierced again.