The Lord showed this to me this morning during my quiet time: I pray this will help you along with your journey with God:
Why is it, that when we give something over to God for God to handle we then take it back within a day, week or month.. The Lord wants us to depend on him with all things. Prov. 3:4&6 How quick the devil comes to steal our dreams or steal the freedom that God has put into us. The Freedom of trusting God and letting go of our selfish pride and trying to figure things out our own way. Isn't God the Potter and we are the Clay? Yes! The scriptures do not say... God is the Clay and we are the Potter. But Dang... We sure have a habit of switching the scriptures around to fit our own benefit. Does that Help you but doing that? NO! God's word is our protection. God's word is our Guide!
Let me give you an example... A construction worker is out working in 98 degree heat. No clouds... This guy is so hot and he is covered with clothing for protection. So with this heat he starts to get weary thinking... ok Maybe if I take my shirt off I would feel cooler... (So he takes it off.).. Then he thinks Man I could just take these Hot boots off! My feet are so hot I would surely feel much better.. What would it hurt.. Just one time? Really fast... ( Again he is thinking with his own thinking) So he doesn't push through this heat and still gets weary and then takes the boots off! So what happens? His feet touches the Hot pavement and he actually burns them! You know kinda like taking your flip flops off at the beach because you want to walk gracefully on the sand and take in the beauty and scenery of the ocean in front of you? And when you take them off what happens?
OH MY STARS you start jumping around like a rabbit trying to get to the water. Your feet are on fire! Was it smart for that Construction worker to take his boots off? (NO)! Was it smart for that person to take their flip flops off? No... So see God says today... Stay faithful.. Don't waiver in your faith with me. Keep alert and stay strong until you have completed the race! If the Construction worker would have just pushed through his day and drank cool refreshing water and would have gotten through it. See his boots are his protection.
Just like God's words is our protection. If we do not hold onto God and are not being in the word of God daily we can loose sight of what God is doing in us and through us. We cannot go by our own emotions and feelings on how WE think things should be in our life or in a situation. We can be like that person at the beach and enjoy the things God has for us around us. The beauty, the warmth, the scenery... But be careful that you don't do things your own way or own thinking and take your flip flops off to soon. You will get burnt! Instead lets walk slowly with assurance of what God is doing in our life and in a situation and get to the end of the (beach) and then take our shoes off and step into the fresh cool water ( Which is God and what he has promised in doing for us) . We need to taste and see that the Lord is Good and wait on him and his perfect timing. 2 Cor 12: 9,10 , Phil 4:13. So how else can we do this? By doing what the scripture says: Col 3:2 set your mind on things above and not things of this earth! And we must daily Renew our mind! Eph 4:23
This is posted by Kris Smith... (Todd's Wife)
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