God you don’t show up when I think you should, the truth of it is, you never leave. You have said it in your word, you made a promise, it says that you would never leave us or forsake us. Why do we, when for some reason You feel far away, think you have stepped away from us. It is us that have chosen to make ourselves distant from You, not the other way around. Part of it is that because we can’t see you, we don’t understand how we are supposed to pursue a relationship with You. Here are some every day chose’s we can make in faith, (because faith is belief in someone or something not seen) we can choose to make time in every day to talk to God (prayer) and listen to Him (His Word) these simple actions are just disciplines to choose to intentionally know who God is better. there are other disciplines too, they are not the way we become more Godly then others or the way we get what we want, these disciplines are a way to be intentional about getting to know our God, savor, the one who died so we might be free to choose You even though we were still sinners. (“Celebration of Discipline” by: Richard J. Foster) How can we ever think that relationships don’t require intentional work, when our God has set the greatest example with His intentional work of the cross on our behalf? He has pursued us to the point of death. I pray we would pursue Him and each other as best as You have taught us to. You won’t force us; You want us to choose to pursue You. Brothers and sister let us spur each other on toward the Heart of God through Jesus Christ His Son.
How had I come to believe, that the deep things of my heart and mind were not important? Who told me they didn’t care about the things I was feeling or thinking about? The truth of the matter was, that no one actually said I don’t care about what you think or feel, they just never bothered to ask. Never being asked is another way to let someone know that they are not valued. In response to some of the most important people in my life not bothering to pursue my young heart and mind, I believed I had nothing to offer or give that would be of any value to anyone else. I believed I was stupid. I heard it over and over in my heart and head with out a second of doubt of its truth. Not until my twenty sixth year did the truth that I believed about myself reveal it’s self as a lie. There were six of us who met each week, five younger women and our leader, a woman the five of us had approached to ask if she would be willing to let us learn from her and be mentored and guided ...
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