God’s way will become your way

 Isaiah 53:6 “We all like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.”    Okay, so you have gone astray….. get back on the horse!!!    We all sin and fall short of the glory of God.  Don’t let your fallen state keep you down.   Get back up and try, try, try again!!   Edison said he didn’t fail 9,999 times he learned that many ways to how not to make a light bulb.   Through Jesus Christ we persevere!!   Perseverance builds character and Character builds hope and hope does not disappoint us. ( Romans 5:3-5) Yes you will go astray, you will turn to your own way, but the more you keep  shaking it off and keep trying to do it God’s way, the more God’s way will become your way!   

Slave to sin?

 Romans 6:16 “ Dont you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey- weather you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?” I used to be a slave to alcohol. It was my first desire. I am so thankful I have been freed from that overwhelming desire. I have addictive personality traits. I have to actively pursue godliness over my sinfulness in order to be free from my sinful obsessions.  When my identity is in Christ, I seek to be pure in thought and deed.  Which makes my life better.  I hope this helps you today. Is there a sin in your life, causing you to be enslaved?   Be free, through the powerful gift of Jesus!!   Seek godliness over sinfulness, and eventually the sinfulness will leave and the Godliness will stay.

God is our refuge and strngth

 Psalm 46: 1 “ God is our refuge and strength, an ever present help in trouble.  2 Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, 3 though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging.”  Do not fear!   No matter how hard things are; God is our reguge and our strength.  He is our ever present help in trouble!   Trust Him, in what ever you are facing.  God’s got this!!

Don’t be afraid just believe

Luke 8:50 “Hearing this Jesus said to Jarius, “Don’t be afraid, just believe and she will be healed.”   

Do you have something in your life that feels a bit scary?   Don’t be afraid, just believe!!  God in His infinite, intimate wisdom will heal!!   Sometimes healing comes in ways we don’t understand at first.   But He does bring healing!!! Don’t be afraid just believe!! 

Unreasonable expectations?

Proverbs 20:3 “ It is to a man’s honor to avoid strife, but every fool is quick to quarrel.”   This last weekend I was waiting tor a girl friend to pick me up from the airport.   She was a bout a half hour late.  I didn’t think much of it.  I didn’t read into it.   I just accepted she was running late.   Then I thought to myself, if she was a romantic interest of mine, I would have been irritated that she was late.  I would have expected my romantic interest to want to be early and excited to see me.   I would have been upset if he would have showed up late.    Do you hold your spouse  or romantic partner to a higher level of expectation than you do your friends?   Are your expectations unreasonable?   In AA we say, to be healthy and well we need to let go of our expectations.   Hope this helps you today.  😇❤️🙏

What type of person are you? One people like to see enter a room or one people like to see leave.

 Proverbs 16:24 "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones."   A freind that has kind words is a friend to enjoy.  What kind of friend are you?   Do you gossip and complain or do you build others up with kind, trustworthy words?  One of these types of people,  is a person people like to see enter the room.   The other is the type of person people like to see leave the room.  What type of person are you?

Anxiety verses Peace

1 Corinthians 2:16 “For who has know the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?  But we have the mind of Christ.”

Last night a lady from my Bible study said, “Do you think when we get to Heaven we can give God a few suggestions about what He could do differently here on Earth?”  That would be thinking 1.  God doesn’t already know. 2. We know more than God.   3.  He’ll hear us more in Heaven than He hears us now.   There are so many  things here on Earth, I would change if I were God.  I am not God. (Thank God!) For my heath and wellness I choose to TRUST Him in all things, when I question God, my anxiety takes over, when I TRUST Him, I take on His peace.  I can not possibly understand many things.  Through it all, I choose to TRUST; He knows, and He is in  control working all things out for His glory and our good.  Remember He is God, He knows and it is right, even when it seems so wrong.