so the Lord does crazy things...
i was trying to email myself something from school and the aol website wouldnt come on and i was like what the heck? and after five min i gave up and went to my yahoo email where i saw a comment on my live journal that i hadnt read. so i just read that new comment, well old comment cuz it was from ooo a month and a half ago and God totally spoke to me through it, and i know you are dying to hear why, so hear it goes...
lately i have been thinking about how hard this life is. its like we always expect for it to be easy and carefree, and when we fall into trials we get a lil frustrated and want them to be over so we can go back to the "good life". we expect the Lord to continually pour out blessings upon us so that we can be temporarily happy. thats when God showed me that life is supposed to be tough and i am going to have to suffer. He even went as far as to ask me what i would do if He didnt allow me to do the things i want to do so desperatly, be a wife, a mother, and a missionary (at least for a lil while). He gave me the faith and the love to say that i would do anything for Him, even give up those things, but after awhile this put me into a rather sad mindset as i felt that this whole life would be full of trials and few blessings. but tonight i read that comment which said that whatever i give to the Lord, He will give back to me 7 fold. and its like i forgot that the Lord desires to bless me. He loves to give me gifts, that is His heart. That is why He died for me, so that i could be His child and He could delight in blessing me, the ultimate blessing being an eternity in Him. and yes this life will be tough and full of pain because thats just how this world is, but i will be blessed by the Lord, blessed beyond what i can imagine. so i am greatly encouraged and just want to say praise the Lord for His love toward us, He is so amazing.
"every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning." James 1:17
lately i have been thinking about how hard this life is. its like we always expect for it to be easy and carefree, and when we fall into trials we get a lil frustrated and want them to be over so we can go back to the "good life". we expect the Lord to continually pour out blessings upon us so that we can be temporarily happy. thats when God showed me that life is supposed to be tough and i am going to have to suffer. He even went as far as to ask me what i would do if He didnt allow me to do the things i want to do so desperatly, be a wife, a mother, and a missionary (at least for a lil while). He gave me the faith and the love to say that i would do anything for Him, even give up those things, but after awhile this put me into a rather sad mindset as i felt that this whole life would be full of trials and few blessings. but tonight i read that comment which said that whatever i give to the Lord, He will give back to me 7 fold. and its like i forgot that the Lord desires to bless me. He loves to give me gifts, that is His heart. That is why He died for me, so that i could be His child and He could delight in blessing me, the ultimate blessing being an eternity in Him. and yes this life will be tough and full of pain because thats just how this world is, but i will be blessed by the Lord, blessed beyond what i can imagine. so i am greatly encouraged and just want to say praise the Lord for His love toward us, He is so amazing.
"every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning." James 1:17