Letter from a Friend

Hi Friend~ I am going to continue to pray and ask God for a verse for you or to even confirm if this was the best choice to send to you. However, this morning just sitting with the Lord I read

Psalm 135:5-6

⁵For I know that the LORD is great,
and that our Lord is above all gods.
⁶ Whatever the LORD pleases, he does,
in heaven and on earth,
in the seas and all deeps.

And I got to thinking with this that our Lord, our Savior does whatever He pleases to do. He allows all things for His pleasure. He has the blimps perspective on the Rose parade sort of speak. From beginning to the end He sees it. We see just the float that just passed us, the one in front of us, and the front of the one coming our way. He sees the entire parade happening at the same time. I got to thinking that if it pleases Him then it should please me as well. If it’s what he wants then it SHOULD be what I want. So why the often struggle in our heart. Romans 12 tells us the will of God is good and acceptable and perfect. We want to believe this and surrender to this but our flesh rages war against this truth. I concluded all I know how to do and all I know to tell anyone else is to take it to the cross. Unsurrendered hearts need to be broken at the cross, tears need to be shed, and the brokenness of a doubting heart needs to be left at the cross. Repentance of the sin so the healing can come is where this all needs to start. Not once in our life but every time it comes – we need to take it to the cross. Will we ever be perfected in this. I really don’t know if that will happen here on earth. I know it happens for moments at a time but a lifestyle of this not so sure, as I’ve yet to be able to say it is true of me – SO take it to the cross is what I will continue to do.

I had the AHA moment thinking that we have become a people who have organized the Lord right out of our lives, our churches – everything. Don’t get me wrong plans are great, organization is good. But we have so come to know it like the back of our hands that we have learned it to perfection and most things get done without ever really considering what He thinks on the subject. When we have not peace we view it as opposition from the enemy, instead of the truth that we have veered off His path and now walk without Him. I firmly believe that He is desperately trying to teach us how to really walk with Him. To not be in the know of the steps down the road, only the one in the here and now. Total dependence on our Lord who has a good and perfect plan for us. We continue to buck up against this training and discipline in our lives that soon will be the very thing that will save us as the days grow darker.

So in conclusion of this time spent with the Lord this morning with this whole thought process. I will purpose to see what looks hard to me and impossible in my mind, as my Jesus doing what He pleases in my life because and trusting that He comes from a heart of pure untainted love towards me. Just some random thoughts this morning that when I was finished thought of you and that maybe this just might be the verse I have been praying for you.