Wednesday, August 30, 2006
That This Is For His Glory
Testimonies inspire and encourage me. My daughter gave the most wonderful testimony I have ever heard. She said that when she was depressed she could hardly drag herself off of the couch. That as she lay there day after day and tried to get herself motivated to get up and do something and found she could not, her despair only greatened. When she decided that since she belonged to God and that she had been created for His Glory then if this was the best she could do, she would just believe that her laying there on the couch would be for His Glory.
As many of you know , this girl is never laying on the couch anymore. She is always up and living for His Glory.
How hard it is for me to remember , that how I am right now, this is where He has me , this is for His Glory.
I was out doing some stuff yesterday and had a couple of times when some health disorders seemed like they disrupted my day. It seemed like maybe I should have kept on doing what I was doing but had chosen to stop . My thoughts struggled with did I chose to do the right thing?
This morning I realized , this is for His Glory. This vessel right here, this is for His Glory ,but only if I let it alone and let what light I have be His Light and not my effort to push on , without Him. This is for His Glory that I am as well as I am, not totally healed , but much more healed than I was last year.
I thought of Samuel, who said, "Here am I Lord, Thy servant heareth." I thought of myself as a small child unable to do much , but willing to do whatever, He said do." Whatever you find yourself able to do today, remember, it is for His Glory !
As many of you know , this girl is never laying on the couch anymore. She is always up and living for His Glory.
How hard it is for me to remember , that how I am right now, this is where He has me , this is for His Glory.
I was out doing some stuff yesterday and had a couple of times when some health disorders seemed like they disrupted my day. It seemed like maybe I should have kept on doing what I was doing but had chosen to stop . My thoughts struggled with did I chose to do the right thing?
This morning I realized , this is for His Glory. This vessel right here, this is for His Glory ,but only if I let it alone and let what light I have be His Light and not my effort to push on , without Him. This is for His Glory that I am as well as I am, not totally healed , but much more healed than I was last year.
I thought of Samuel, who said, "Here am I Lord, Thy servant heareth." I thought of myself as a small child unable to do much , but willing to do whatever, He said do." Whatever you find yourself able to do today, remember, it is for His Glory !
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
He Blesses Me
When I was a child I use to sing ,"give me oil in my lamp, keep me burning, burning, burning, give me oil in my lamp, I pray." That was our only clue in the song, "I pray" ,as to how you got the oil. Truly that was the right words because the oil in our lamps certainly can not be manufactured by man. The attempt to look like you have oil and do things so it will burn (make a light) sure will mess up the true oil that the Holy Spirit wants you to have. When He (the Holy Spirit) gives me boldness to do some thing, I rejoice. Why ? Because I use to "try to be bold" in my own strength. It looked good to people, (I thought.). Some how the Holy Spirit managed to get my attention and helped me realize how it looked to HIM. Today I rejoice because He gives me oil in my lamp and He keeps it burning. It may not be 100% pure oil but it is being processed oh so thoroughly. When I do things now I so want to do them in His strength. In Ps 37:4 The Psalmist declares, "Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. " It is so. I live to tell you, "it is so."
