Just
some thoughts
Dear friends I would like to
share with you some thoughts that have come up recently in my quiet
times and throw out my every day life here at Bethany.
To begin with I would like
to share a statement that a good friend of mine shared with me during
one of our conversions. “ In we say to the Lord Lord I will go were
you want me to go I will serve where you want me to serve send me and
I will go. While what if we are where the Lord wants us in this season
of life. What if he has us in a specific season so that we may learn,
grow or even find some healing in a area of our lives. Once my
friend shared this thought with me I could not get it out of my mind
it made me think about my walk with the Lord and where he has brought
me and were he is bringing me to. My second thought that I would like
to share is this. As Christians we say that we will walk by faith and
not by sight. However what we do not talk about or share about is how
hard this is sometimes and how much we need to rely on the Lord for
strength because I know me personally there have been times in my walk
where I know it was not by my personal strength that I have gotten
through but by the Lord's strength and grace. My third thought is one
that I believe many Christians have whether you're in ministry or mission
or not and that is the thought about those time in our lives when
we just ask the Lord why I just don't understated. Personally I
found that when it is the Lord's time and not you own the Lord will
bring understanding to these things in Life.
My fourth thought is this,
Why is it as Christians we find our self hiding from the Truth in
different areas of our lives. Why do allow our bother and sister
to hide in shame and fear when as a body we're called come side and love
them as Jesus would. Loving one another no matter what has happened ,
allowing people to remove their mask and show how they are. I say
this knowing that it is not a easy thing to do for I understand
because I have been both those people. The person who wears a masking
hoping no one will ever know what is going inside as that person
that other can take their mask off in front of and lean on. Throughout
my walk with the Lord I have learned from different people what this
looks like and how it can affect a community.
My fifth and final thought
is this, In my walk with the Lord I have found that no matter how
much I want something not matter how much I try to earn or no matter
how hard I work at it if not the Lord's will then it does not happen.
Let me explain have you ever had a plan and then the Lord changes
because it not plan. I found that what it comes down to is this we
have our plan and the Lord has his. To be honest usually the Lord's plan turns out to be a lot better even if we do not see it or
understand it at the time when it is happening.
In my closing I want to
share one more thing with you and that is this: That know matter what
happens in our lives as long as we look to the Lord and know that we
are the body, we are brother , we are sisters, we are children of God
and through the Lord we are loved, cared for and set free.