lost and wandering...

I wrote this early morning Wednesday August 30^th...

I am lost and wandering
Wasting days as they go by
Not knowing what to do
Another month comes to an end
Struggling with the silence
Lord, I have not heard from You
There has been no revelation of the next step on this path that You have me on
It has been a very long and trying journey...

Then my attention was brought to the following verse -

I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice and to do good in one's lifetime...Ecclesiastes 3:12

I have been really struggling with what I am to be doing these days...and answers to my struggling have been difficult to ascertain….

And as the path (my path) that I have been on has ended, I do not know what comes next...

Yet here I believe is the Lord's answer to me in this time:

Rejoice in the Me and walk in My ways...

Sharing My goodness and loving-kindness for all of your days...

Will it be easy? I am guessing no…but I know and can be sure that the Holy Spirit will lead and empower me if I seek after the fullness of His indwelling within me.

how amazing is that...

When the Hebrew nation was redeemed from Egypt the people saw the Lord's hand, saving them from the bondage that had enslaved them, yet even in their deliverance they looked back!

They had the pillar of fire by night and the cloud by day to show them that their loving God was with them as they traversed the wilderness and yet that was not good enough for them, they murmured and complained.

The Lord brought them to the edge of the Promised Land and instead of praising God for His continued providence in providing the promise they had disbelief and sent spies into the land and decided that the God who had delivered them was not big enough to complete His promise…they relied on their own limited vision and fear even though they had experienced God's powerful hand upon them in their wanderings.

What love He has for us…yet we would rather follow our own limited vision and live lives that are incomplete in Him…placing Him in a box of our own making…the Romans' placed Jesus in a tomb but we place Him in a box…the creator off all things, the most powerful, omniscient loving Lord and we live our lives limiting who He is and what He can do.

Because of His great sacrifice we have the most amazing privilege and honor and opportunity to have a relationship with the Almighty God…to walk and talk with Him…to sit at His feet and enjoy His presence…the veil was torn from top to bottom so we could enjoy His intimate loving relationship that He desires of and for His children.

He calls us to cultivate our relationship with Him, to draw close to Him, to abide in Him, to see and experience Him as our heavenly Father and faithful friend.

He was given us His Holy Spirit to live within us, how amazing is it that our Lord should want to share a part of Himself with us…and what do we do with that? For the most part we ignore the Spirit of God living in us, we keep Him on the edges for times of need, we overlook and even dispel His power to work in us and through us, to change us, to conform us into Christ's image, to do the works that the Lord has planned for us to do, to be different from the world - set apart for His glory. And why do we do this? I believe that it is because we are comfortable living in the physical but afraid of walking in the spiritual!

May His grace abound...

As we walk through these days of the ever present darkness and violent struggle and growing tribulation, might we earnestly desire that -

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with our spirit.  (Philippians 4:23)

May His grace abound through us as we boldly and unashamedly allow His amazing light of grace and truth to shine forth in this darkness...

amazing...

It is truly amazing - 

...the riches of His grace which He lavished on us...

unfathomable riches....

Is His grace showing through us?

Sharing the unfathomable riches of Christ!

Ephesians 3:8

who are we

Who are we: 

a new creation...

in Christ Jesus...

living and walking by the Spirit...

our faith working through love...

full of grace and truth...

a light shining in the darkness...

the love of Christ

The love of Christ controls us

The love of Christ compels us

The love of Christ encourages us

The love of Christ leads us

The love of Christ fulfills us

The love of Christ redeems us

The love of Christ renews us

The love of Christ restores us

The love of Christ frees us

The love of Christ provides for us

The love of Christ heals us

The love of Christ is our life 

The love of Christ is the air that we breathe

And the love of Christ does not fail....