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It's nice to have a journal to come to when I need to get some thoughts down...thoughts that I'm comfortable having the public read. So...
Thought #1: I hate waiting. This is probably because I'm a product of American society. The #1 philosophy of this impatient nation is "Get it now." That's what drives our technological research. Americans want everything they can get right away, painlessly and without effort if by any means possible. But really, I see this kind of mindset reflected in some of my own feelings and actions. For example, when we truly seek God's will, He often shows us aspects of our lives that need changing, sometimes very dramatic change. And of course, when we obey, we will receive a "harvest of righteousness and peace" (Hebrews 12:11). The thing is, when we make a dramatic change, when God wants to take something very important (to us) away from us, and we allow Him to, we want that harvest now! We want that pain (from losing whatever it was) to go away, and to get that peace! At least I do. My impatience is astounding to me. The closer I come to God, the more impatient I realize I've been. Pain sucks man. I don't know how long this pain will last. Someday it will leave. On that day I will know it, I think. In the meantime what am I to do, pretend it's not there? Ignore it? Fight it? Certainly I shall not allow it to consume me. The Lord is my strength. Surely I will only survive this pain because of His strength and His love.
“ For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. ”- Romans 8:38-39
Amen!
And let's pray for some rain, huh?
Thought #1: I hate waiting. This is probably because I'm a product of American society. The #1 philosophy of this impatient nation is "Get it now." That's what drives our technological research. Americans want everything they can get right away, painlessly and without effort if by any means possible. But really, I see this kind of mindset reflected in some of my own feelings and actions. For example, when we truly seek God's will, He often shows us aspects of our lives that need changing, sometimes very dramatic change. And of course, when we obey, we will receive a "harvest of righteousness and peace" (Hebrews 12:11). The thing is, when we make a dramatic change, when God wants to take something very important (to us) away from us, and we allow Him to, we want that harvest now! We want that pain (from losing whatever it was) to go away, and to get that peace! At least I do. My impatience is astounding to me. The closer I come to God, the more impatient I realize I've been. Pain sucks man. I don't know how long this pain will last. Someday it will leave. On that day I will know it, I think. In the meantime what am I to do, pretend it's not there? Ignore it? Fight it? Certainly I shall not allow it to consume me. The Lord is my strength. Surely I will only survive this pain because of His strength and His love.
“ For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. ”- Romans 8:38-39
Amen!
And let's pray for some rain, huh?