This morning I have a smile on my face. Here is what I know to be true. The Lord has brought me a long way! Oh such a long way! May I repeat He has brought me a loooooooooooong way. I have a long way to go still but where I am now from where I was before I knew Him.... a long way! Yesterday I took the day to seek the Lord on a few things. It was a great day at the forest reading, praying, thanking. I got a clear response and I was good with it when I left because I knew 110% that Christ was not only in it, He was it! Oh did my pride come out last night. My last ditch effort to say just kidding Lord I know when we were in our secret place together just you and me, and I felt completely safe, I was good but now that I am exposed, feeling a little sad, and vulnerable: I will act prideful, not be Christ like, and self protect. WHY? Merely four hours earlier we were all on the same page! Shame on me for wanting to take you out of the equation because your response wasn't really what I wanted it to be.
However where I am now from where I was: I can and will admit fault, sin, and disgraceful words and actions. I will follow through on what you have asked and I will, no matter how silly I feel, go back and say what you clearly asked me to say.
Lord you have brought me into a spacious place! Your yoke is easy and your burden is light. You see me in my brokenness and love me the same. This morning I am smiling, tearing up on occasion, but none the less smiling and CELEBRATING, oh Lord how I am celebrating, what you have brought me from.
A life wrecked with insecurity, with fear of abandonment, for not believing I have anything to offer. From selfishness and thinking it has to be all about me and what my wants are. Lord you brought me into a place where I am delighted in, LOVED wholly for not what I have to produce but simply because my beauty takes your breath away, into a place of rest and safe keeping, in a place where I make wise choices! Lord this morning I am celebrating a WISE CHOICE! You presented the person but I CHOOSE oh I chose godly character! godly pursuit! I choose well!!!!! Miracles do happen I chose well! And Christ and I are celebrating that victory and honey if you knew the old me.... you would celebrate too!!!!!
"For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you. For the love of CHRIST CONTROLS US, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised. From now on, therefore we regard no one according to flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer. THEREFORE, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. THE OLD HAS PASSED AWAY; behold, the new has come. "
1 Corinthians 5:13-17
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