well...time has flown by! I seriously just lost January! I cannot believe it has been a month since I last blogged. We have been so busy as a family that time has literally wizzed by me.
I have been studying the book of Dueteronomy this month. I find it fasinating. I often find that I end up relating with the plight of the Irealites...hopeless wondering around the same mountain for years. The journey from the Mt. Sinai to the promise land was only 11 days long...and yet it took them 40 years!!!!!!! This is how I feel about the "heart issues" I have been battling. I know victory is within arms reach, but somehow I still go the long way around, and end up right where I started! This circling around drives me (and I am sure the Lord) crazy! As we start a new year...or (did 31 days ago) we should all make an effort to really stop the "spirtual tredmill", of walking around the same issues over and over, and just get real with God. We need to confess our weaknesses and ask God what to do about them. But here's the kicker...we also have to DO WHAT HE SAYS!!!!
So in the spirit of new beginnings, I will go first. I confess to God and everyone that I have trouble dealing with frustration. I am impatient and often critical. Lord...help me find peace in tough situations; to not induldge my own fleshly responces to stress, but instead do what you say I should do: I will pray for my enemies, I will trust in you and your plans, I will speak and think of positive, life-giving things, I will lean not on my own devices, but turn to your Word for wisdom....amen.
I have been studying the book of Dueteronomy this month. I find it fasinating. I often find that I end up relating with the plight of the Irealites...hopeless wondering around the same mountain for years. The journey from the Mt. Sinai to the promise land was only 11 days long...and yet it took them 40 years!!!!!!! This is how I feel about the "heart issues" I have been battling. I know victory is within arms reach, but somehow I still go the long way around, and end up right where I started! This circling around drives me (and I am sure the Lord) crazy! As we start a new year...or (did 31 days ago) we should all make an effort to really stop the "spirtual tredmill", of walking around the same issues over and over, and just get real with God. We need to confess our weaknesses and ask God what to do about them. But here's the kicker...we also have to DO WHAT HE SAYS!!!!
So in the spirit of new beginnings, I will go first. I confess to God and everyone that I have trouble dealing with frustration. I am impatient and often critical. Lord...help me find peace in tough situations; to not induldge my own fleshly responces to stress, but instead do what you say I should do: I will pray for my enemies, I will trust in you and your plans, I will speak and think of positive, life-giving things, I will lean not on my own devices, but turn to your Word for wisdom....amen.
