Faith

You gave me hope! I have so much going on right now spiritually--trials, tests, success, defeats, renewal, pouring and overflowing. My life is so busy and there are things going all around me and to me--but You shout through the storm and my ears are in tune with Your voice!

What it means to walk by faith...I am your child, O Lord! Teach me! I am Your servant, Your clay. Take me and make me what you want me to be--what You have in store for me. I can't believe I ever doubt Your amazing power. I can't believe that I can ever doubt Your Majesty--the Creator of the heavens, the earth!

In my transfomation in the last few years, I have begun to see glimpses of His cloak...see His beauty. I once made the comment, "My Creator is so Great that even His creation creates!" Think about it! How many things can we make that have the ability to think, reason, imagine and create? Nothing! I am powerless to this ability. I, however, a mere mortal, can be creative--I can work with my hands, see with my eyes, analyze with my brain, and I create. I create in pictures, in product, in love, in relationships, in worship. How extraordinary our Creator is that He has given us these gifts!

I was in a Sunday morning class this past week and I heard a profound statement. I and other friends have struggled with the realness of God at some point in our lives--is God real? Someone in class said that during his psychology course in college that his professor stated that with all that we have in our humanness as far as logic goes for our actions and inactions, there is no way to bridge the gap from total surrender to our circumstances and healing without God. There is a limit to our humanness, in other words, and there's no way to get to the other side without God. Take all the time you need--the wholeness and healing will never be complete without a faith in God to fill the gigantic hole. This resonated with me because I experienced the same thing. If we could do it without God, then we wouldn't need Him, and that is so true that we do! That is proof there is a God! I've felt that my life is proof essentially because I'm still standing. Not only am I standing, but I'm overflowing! If you had seen me before, you would know that it would be quite impossible to do this on my own. Drugs don't help and insanity doesn't help. God does.

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. 2 Corinthians 1:3-4

So then, it's not about me! This life is not about me. It is about how I can be the hands and feet of Jesus. What a tremendous burden that is lifted to live for the happiness, fullfillment and joy of others. It makes me feel joy and fullfillment all the more. Can you do that? Can you begin to let go? What if you said to yourself, "I'm going to let that go and just see where it takes me". You can do it! I promise you will find joy in it! Everything we surrender will be heard by God--He will honor our sacrifices!! We are so blessed with a God who truly cares for us!

May the Lord our God keep you! You are a treasure to Him and He yearns to hear you call on Him! :)