this week it’s been interesting to see the numerous ways that the theme of rethinking things has come to my mind. (i need that conference) part of it was satan trying to get me down, but God is awesome and He always has a way of teaching me through the difficult days or even weeks. this week there was yet another church that gave me what i would call a “yeah right” message as i sent them a resume for an open position. (however this was the most gracious and professional one yet!) so it caused me to question, wonder…why do i bother, is God really going to have a place for me to serve full time…you get the idea.
thankfully i took a step back and looked at things. God has always had this way of doing things in His own timing and usually in a manner that no one else can really understand or comprehend…i mean making man out of dirt? or ask a man to kill his son and don’t provide a sacrifice for him until the very last minute? He could’ve done that a little sooner, if you ask me. then the whole flood thing and building an ark, i can’t see how that made a whole lot of sense to noah or anyone at that time. and the one that just blows my mind is sending His own Son to die for a bunch of thieves, murderers, adulterers, liars, cheats, gossips…you know people like you and me. He’s God, He could have come up with some other way to save the world right???
but that isn’t for me to know or to question, but to trust. whether it’s in the distant past or my life today, i need to trust.
i was lead to this passage and i’m going to continue reading it through to see what all God has for me to learn through this time. i pray that it will challenge you in some way as well, to trust God and His plans for your lives. i pray that it will help me trust Him more than my own understanding or plans for my life.
isaiah 40:28-31
28 Have you never heard? Have you never understood? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of all the earth. He never grows weak or weary. No one can measure the depths of His understanding. 29 He gives power to the weak and strength to the powerless. 30 Even youths will become weak and tired, and young men will fall in exhaustion. 31 But those who trust in the Lord will find new strength. They will soar high on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not faint.
last night the Lord allowed me to be a part of a “Night of Worship” at our church and to actually lead a couple of songs and play. i can’t describe what that did for me!!! it was a little reminder from God that He has called me and gifted me to lead others in worshiping Him through song. i was weak and tired, and last night i found new strength. not only that i had more fun than i have had in a long time, just playing and singing and praising God with every ounce of my being. God showed me that His Word is true, i just need to…trust in the Lord!!!
i pray that we all do just that…trust in the Lord!!!
