We serve a Mighty and Patient God

Good morning to all on this Wednesday morning. I didn't think I had the time to write this Blog entry this morning but as God would have it, my morning flight is delayed and the first thing I did was turn to the Word to celebrate the love of God for me and for you. I am just blessed to be alive with good health, a husband that loves me, children with whom I have friendships and grandchildren that ensure that my time here on earth will be marked by people who will remember me with love. I have been practicing a spiritual behavior that I received from a Daily Devotional from Joel Olstein. I invite God into my circumstance and then step back. I have the temptation to step back in but then remember to pray and ask God to take over. The practice of this behavior has done two immediate things 1) I am learning what surrender means and 2) I am strengthening my faith as I wait on God. Both traits are good traits and I am being blessed immensely. Please continue to keep Eric and his family in your prayers as we head toward his memorial. Also keep JKS's healing in your prayer and keep BB in your prayers. Satan is busy and desires to demonstrate that confusion is the order of the day and not the love and peace of God.

I am continuing my journey in Jeremiah, the 6th chapter verses 9-17, "This is what the LORD Almighty says:

Let them glean the remnant of Israel as thoroughly as a vine; pass your hand over the branches again, like one gathering grapes. To whom can I speak and give warning? Who will listen to me? Their ears are closed so they cannot hear. The word of the LORD is offensive to them; they find no pleasure in it. But I am full of the wrath of the LORD, and I cannot hold it in. Pour it out on the children in the street and on the young men gathered together; both husband and wife will be caught in it, and the old, those weighed down with years. Their houses will be turned over to others, together with their fields and their wives, when I stretch out my hand against those who live in the land, ddeclares the LORD. From the least to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; prophets and priests alike, all practice deceit. They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. Peace, peace, they say, when there is no peace. Are they ashamed of their detestable conduct? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; they will be brought down when I punish them, says the LORD." Amen

The one thing that God is teaching me in Jeremiah is that He HATES sin. He cannot be in the same space as sin. He knows that SIN will eat away at the very fabric work of our soul. He should know; He made both body and soul. Its like oil and water; sin and God do not mix!!! In the old days (old dispensation) the Lord would just rise up to take vengeance on sinners of any age, sex or rank. The children of Israel were set upon the world, and wholly carried away by the love of it. Instead of loving and worshipping God they instead worshipped themselves and the things of the world. The children of Israel were deceived by their enemies, who flattered them in a sinful way. Just like Satan deceived Eve into believing that there would be no consequence to disobeying God, so too were the children of Israel deceived. Instead of planting their feet on the path as set forth by God, they delighted in the way of ungodliness and unrighteousness. You cannot survive and reject God's Word. The disobedient were handed over to their enemies and the children of Israel have been at the mercy of one group or another through the ages. They have lost the Promise which has now been given to all of us through the death and resurrrection of Christ. God never gives up on us and as in the days of old He sends people into our path to change our walk and change our minds and hearts. Be sensitive to them and accepts them with open arms.

God desires that we have a heart that is sensitive to His Words and teachings. He desires that we become the light to a very dark world. If we are just like the world how will they eve see God. What I am learning is that what spews from my mouth is really what is in my heart. If out of my mouth comes anything but the love of God in any situation I have learned, then,  that this corner of my heart still needs me to empty some junk out it. I am dealing with a situation right this minute in which the other party is being, what I consider, completely unreasonable. This person appears to be disparate and is only looking out for their own self interest. She keep escalating the situation and won't go away quietly when she knows she is wrong and should. This morning I decided to ask God into this circumstance and I am trusting God for the best result both for this woman and my client. He has a 360 degree view of this woman, He knows her heart and knows her circumstance. He is going to use this situation to show her the love of God and I will be witness to it!

You and I are only able to see a fraction of what life has in store for us with our human eyes. God will teach us to See as He does with Spiritual eyes. The stuff we get caught up in is so umimportant at the end of the day. Don't waste your blessings of this day with the Junk in your trunk. Trust God for your circumstance and watch Him work miracles for you.

Now may the LORD bless you and keep you; may the LORD make His face shine on you and be gracious to you; may the LORD turn His face toward you and give you peace. Amen.

Stephanie