Well, that was simple
I get these inspirational videos sometimes and I thought this one was going to be deep, to explain something to me in ways that would help me understand "why". As always, there is a back story to my story and this is it:
Lsst night about 9:30 p.m., I began to feel the Holy Spirit lift all my burdens from my heart. I told God I don't know what changed and really didn't need to know. I told God I didn't want to know why or what changed. I don't care why I feel the way I do today and if anything tries to creep back in that doesn't belong, it's going to be met with a resolved fight to not let it.
I would have used a smaller word but that implies I'd be talking about someone else and that's part of what I had to let go of. The ex is another I let go of so very long ago and save for this last story, that's not for comment either.
God answers prayers. Try praying for your enemies I prayed for mine; I prayed he'd learn to become a man, to take responsibility for his family, that he'd grow up and be a better man. I also prayed he'd come to know Christ. The boy I know as my enemy has potential to be a man; we all do, and do great things for the kingdom if he applied his energy to do so. So I prayed for him until I felt like I no longer needed to and Miss June reported to me last night that those changes are happening. She's not happy about the outcome. She wanted a different one, but she's trying to accept it. Praying for my enemy changed me. It allowed me to forgive like Christ forgave me. It allowed God to change me which gave me the courage to keep quiet and accept what was instead of following the desire to do what I wanted. It gave me the power to die to myself and follow Christ. It conquered hate. That's what praying for your enemies does. Try it sometime.
In that spirit, I had to pray last night one last prayer for the thing I wanted most of all, (which in all honesty is probably not the thing everyone thought it was) and could never have. Someone else has that, too, and I had to pray one last time that the same things that happened to my enemy happen there and I thanked God for what happened the past few months. I don't need to pray about it anymore.
I received an e-mail about a video that promised me insight and understanding about God's ways and things of that nature. It was one that I was hoping to explain "why" a little bit better. I was looking for this deep meaning, this point of being able to use Scripture to know why. To under stand why, and the video unfolds reminding us that He's the potter, and we're the clay; that He's the Shepherd and we're not, and for all the power, wisdom, and knowledge man has and even with what we know about God from His Word, the reasons for what God does, How he does it, and when He does it, are unable to be comprehended by man except for this simple statement.
"He is God and we are not."
It really is just that simple.
Lsst night about 9:30 p.m., I began to feel the Holy Spirit lift all my burdens from my heart. I told God I don't know what changed and really didn't need to know. I told God I didn't want to know why or what changed. I don't care why I feel the way I do today and if anything tries to creep back in that doesn't belong, it's going to be met with a resolved fight to not let it.
I would have used a smaller word but that implies I'd be talking about someone else and that's part of what I had to let go of. The ex is another I let go of so very long ago and save for this last story, that's not for comment either.
God answers prayers. Try praying for your enemies I prayed for mine; I prayed he'd learn to become a man, to take responsibility for his family, that he'd grow up and be a better man. I also prayed he'd come to know Christ. The boy I know as my enemy has potential to be a man; we all do, and do great things for the kingdom if he applied his energy to do so. So I prayed for him until I felt like I no longer needed to and Miss June reported to me last night that those changes are happening. She's not happy about the outcome. She wanted a different one, but she's trying to accept it. Praying for my enemy changed me. It allowed me to forgive like Christ forgave me. It allowed God to change me which gave me the courage to keep quiet and accept what was instead of following the desire to do what I wanted. It gave me the power to die to myself and follow Christ. It conquered hate. That's what praying for your enemies does. Try it sometime.
In that spirit, I had to pray last night one last prayer for the thing I wanted most of all, (which in all honesty is probably not the thing everyone thought it was) and could never have. Someone else has that, too, and I had to pray one last time that the same things that happened to my enemy happen there and I thanked God for what happened the past few months. I don't need to pray about it anymore.
I received an e-mail about a video that promised me insight and understanding about God's ways and things of that nature. It was one that I was hoping to explain "why" a little bit better. I was looking for this deep meaning, this point of being able to use Scripture to know why. To under stand why, and the video unfolds reminding us that He's the potter, and we're the clay; that He's the Shepherd and we're not, and for all the power, wisdom, and knowledge man has and even with what we know about God from His Word, the reasons for what God does, How he does it, and when He does it, are unable to be comprehended by man except for this simple statement.
"He is God and we are not."
It really is just that simple.
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