Down? Maybe. Out? Hardly!
I'm a firm believer that prayer works and it's nice to have people pray for you when you're having a hard time.
I know we all face challenges and lately the flee instinct has been pretty strong. So has the hand of correction from the Almighty. I'm serious about this whole accounting for every penny thing and it's a tough task. It sure keeps me from spending money, though. It makes me think of the priorities in my life and if you can tell where a man's priorities are by his checkbook, right now mine would be paying what I owe.
It's not easy.
Yesterday, my good friend shared a post on Facebook that showed a horse stuck in a fence, half on one side and half on another and in the picture, a cow who appeared to be laughing at the horse. I don't know about the cow laughing, but I surely feel like the horse. The house would be one side, my job would be another, and there's me... stuck.
But stuck is where I'm at and where I'm supposed to be. If it weren't I wouldn't be. The thing is though, that I get scared that I'm not able to care about things anymore. A friend at work shared with me a little meme yesterday that says it's a dangerous thing to push a loyal man to the point where he no longer cares. Yeah. I'd seen that a week or so ago and thought, yup. It's something that's been bothering me for a while now. And fortunately, I had the good sense to acknowledge it to a group at church and ask for prayer for it.
There's an answer to that prayer. It's this: God loves you, Dale!
I have a few little devotionals at my disposal every day. I share from one of them with all y'all every now and again. It's called "Our Daily Bread". Today's devotional was about God's love for us. The verses were from Romans 5, which basically tell us that God loves us so much that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. That's heady stuff because Paul acknowledges in the Scripture that maybe someone would die for a really good man, but for a sinner? I know what I am and still, God sends not the big check I wanted, or even answers I've begged for, but a message that He's in control of this and maybe I need to suck it up.
I also have a PromiseKeepers devotional Bible. It has a devotional reading for every day. I've been reading it off and on this week and couldn't help but read today's. Across from the Scripture reading is today's, which tells a story about two men in World War II. One was a believer and another was a friend who was heading out for a weekend date with a girl he met at the USO. It goes on to tell the story of how the one man believed and a few months later, lost his life when his ship was hit by a torpedo. The thing that caught my attention is that one of the men in the story, the one that led the other to Christ has the exact same last name as a co-worker of mine at Hill AFB who hired in to the same job on the same day as I did.
It's a message and answers. God loves me. I am an airplane mechanic at Hill AFB because thats' what God wants me to be right now. I live at Lark Circle because God wants me at Lark Circle, at least for today. I'm having a bit of financial difficulty because it's something God is using for His purposes; one to keep me stuck, two to teach me lessons about accountability and good stewardship of what I've been given.
God is good! I'm looking at life through a different prism now. I do care. About all of the things that are happening in and around me. I'm just numb a little bit because there isn't a lot I can do about most of them. God, though is still on the throne and still answering prayers.
Praise God!
I know we all face challenges and lately the flee instinct has been pretty strong. So has the hand of correction from the Almighty. I'm serious about this whole accounting for every penny thing and it's a tough task. It sure keeps me from spending money, though. It makes me think of the priorities in my life and if you can tell where a man's priorities are by his checkbook, right now mine would be paying what I owe.
It's not easy.
Yesterday, my good friend shared a post on Facebook that showed a horse stuck in a fence, half on one side and half on another and in the picture, a cow who appeared to be laughing at the horse. I don't know about the cow laughing, but I surely feel like the horse. The house would be one side, my job would be another, and there's me... stuck.
But stuck is where I'm at and where I'm supposed to be. If it weren't I wouldn't be. The thing is though, that I get scared that I'm not able to care about things anymore. A friend at work shared with me a little meme yesterday that says it's a dangerous thing to push a loyal man to the point where he no longer cares. Yeah. I'd seen that a week or so ago and thought, yup. It's something that's been bothering me for a while now. And fortunately, I had the good sense to acknowledge it to a group at church and ask for prayer for it.
There's an answer to that prayer. It's this: God loves you, Dale!
I have a few little devotionals at my disposal every day. I share from one of them with all y'all every now and again. It's called "Our Daily Bread". Today's devotional was about God's love for us. The verses were from Romans 5, which basically tell us that God loves us so much that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. That's heady stuff because Paul acknowledges in the Scripture that maybe someone would die for a really good man, but for a sinner? I know what I am and still, God sends not the big check I wanted, or even answers I've begged for, but a message that He's in control of this and maybe I need to suck it up.
I also have a PromiseKeepers devotional Bible. It has a devotional reading for every day. I've been reading it off and on this week and couldn't help but read today's. Across from the Scripture reading is today's, which tells a story about two men in World War II. One was a believer and another was a friend who was heading out for a weekend date with a girl he met at the USO. It goes on to tell the story of how the one man believed and a few months later, lost his life when his ship was hit by a torpedo. The thing that caught my attention is that one of the men in the story, the one that led the other to Christ has the exact same last name as a co-worker of mine at Hill AFB who hired in to the same job on the same day as I did.
It's a message and answers. God loves me. I am an airplane mechanic at Hill AFB because thats' what God wants me to be right now. I live at Lark Circle because God wants me at Lark Circle, at least for today. I'm having a bit of financial difficulty because it's something God is using for His purposes; one to keep me stuck, two to teach me lessons about accountability and good stewardship of what I've been given.
God is good! I'm looking at life through a different prism now. I do care. About all of the things that are happening in and around me. I'm just numb a little bit because there isn't a lot I can do about most of them. God, though is still on the throne and still answering prayers.
Praise God!
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