"In my weakness His stength is made perfect."
In my complete inability, he always comes through.
In my desperate pitiful state, he is faithful to complete that perfect work.
Always.
When I have no control, and fail with everything he has given me, then I see his grace. And it is beautiful. And it is glorious. And it is perfect. And it shows me once again that I don't need to have it figured out, I need to have him fully in control. I can't trust my own ability to stop trusting myself. Its not as much about the dos and don'ts as it is about letting him do his work.
I am very capable of showing that I am incapable. And in that I can be confident. Because his strength is perfectly shown in my lack, in my failure, in my pain, in my weaknessess.
Blessed be the Lord!! For he is good, and his mercy endures forever!!!
Thursday, September 19, 2013
Monday, September 16, 2013
What do I have to give?
Lately the Lord has been showing me how much he has been using me as an example to the believers. I don't understand it. Honestly, I'm so much less than I want to be.
But it doesn't matter! I'm not called to look at myself and become the man I want to be, my whole lot in life is to let Him love me. Because we cannot love Him, unless He first loves us. We can only give what we receive.
And when we go and live life, forgetting our first Love, how can we receive? How can we hear his still small voice? How can we touch the world around us without the full empowerment of his love, and the full revelation of his affection?
We can't.
So, if we want to live life to the full, and receive all our Father wants to give us, and see him clearly and love him with everything...
We need to experience the fullness of his love.
Is there anything we can do to make him come and love us like that? Is there something we can give up, or something we can do to experience his heart every single moment of every single day?
One of my favorite verses is Jeremiah 29:13:
"You will seek Me and you will find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart."
Ask... and you WILL receive.
Seek... because He is to be found!
Knock... He will never turn you away!!!
But it doesn't matter! I'm not called to look at myself and become the man I want to be, my whole lot in life is to let Him love me. Because we cannot love Him, unless He first loves us. We can only give what we receive.
And when we go and live life, forgetting our first Love, how can we receive? How can we hear his still small voice? How can we touch the world around us without the full empowerment of his love, and the full revelation of his affection?
We can't.
So, if we want to live life to the full, and receive all our Father wants to give us, and see him clearly and love him with everything...
We need to experience the fullness of his love.
Is there anything we can do to make him come and love us like that? Is there something we can give up, or something we can do to experience his heart every single moment of every single day?
One of my favorite verses is Jeremiah 29:13:
"You will seek Me and you will find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart."
Ask... and you WILL receive.
Seek... because He is to be found!
Knock... He will never turn you away!!!
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