Hey guys. Nothing like procrastinating my blogging to where, for the moment, I only have a blog basically for each month. I have so much to share with you about California and Mexico (Lindsay took care of a lot about Leon.) Anyway, I've decided to divide my thoughts up into a series of blogs so I don't have one lloonngg one that no one wants to read. Tonight though I'm not blogging about my trips. b4 I share anything about them I'm going to pray and ask God to show me what to share and how to share it so the glory for everything I've seen and experienced this past month will go to him and not myself for anything I say.
Tonight, before I go to bed, I'd like to share something that stood out to me in Shane's blog that I just read. It came from this excerpt:
"If you find yourself in a tough situation right now, please don’t lose hope. God may be preparing you for something in your future. Or, perhaps, you may be learning what true contentment and joy are all about – a lesson learned by remaining in difficult circumstances rather than by always being delivered from them.Until that becomes clear, wait...and trust...and hope."
The one word that stood out to me is preparing. I just recently watched facing the Giants Saturday. (It always makes me cry.) There were many parts that hit me in a whole new way. The part that the word prepare reminded me of was a story that God , through this one guy, told to the main character who was going through several difficult situations.
It goes something like this:
Two men were praying to God for rain. They both prayed and prayed, but only one man went out and prepared his fields for it. Now which man do you think trusted God to send the rain? The one who prepared his fields.
We should likewise be preparing our 'fields' in life and be preparing ourselves. We may be in tough situations, but there is no reason to lose hope. (easier said than done.) Whether God is preparing us for something in the future, or whether it's a lesson to learn true contentment and joy we need to (like shane said) wait, trust, and hope. But even more than that we need to prepare our hearts and our lives to recieve the 'rain' that we believe through faith is coming after and/or through the tough situation and difficult circumstances. Every situation and obstacle that we face in life has a purpose and the potential to change our lives if we'd only prepare to let it.
Wait, Trust, Hope, and Prepare for God to work.
About Me
- Hannah
- I laugh like my dad so it's really loud and carries easily. U might say i laugh to much, but I don't care, because I laugh and smile to show off the joy the Lord bestows upon me. I love life. Oh, and don't be surprised if you never find me not singing something...I can't help it, I love praising my Abba. Also, I love to spend time with my friends/church family. I don't know what i'd do w/o them...(I have lots of friends not just one bestie, and it's a blessing because they are a diversity of ages.) Oh, and the most important thing...I strive everday to strengthen my relationship w/ my Heavenly Father, and i especially don't know what i would do w/o Him. I'm in love with our God.
2 comments:
Hannah, you are so right. I'll join you in loving the movie and crying everytime I see it.
In preparing for rain...it makes me think about the calm that comes before the storm. I notice this many times when I am waiting on God for something. I usually cause the wind to blow and a storm to move in by trying to control it myself. But once I resign myself to Him and wait upon His answer, I feel a huge sense of peace while He works in my heart.
(these are times I'm unusually quiet)
I believe that God does things in us that we would never choose, to produce things in us that can not see for ourselves. I just love that about Him!!!
yes, I know what you mean. I try to control it myself as well, more often than not. But His peace washes over me when I let him have control. I love how God chooses to work (whether I think that at the time or not) because he will produce things later that we may not see at the time. thanks for sharing brenda.
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