(Written October 18th, 2008) I was talking to Ash today and stumbled upon some wisdom that seems to come out of nowhere as a believer. We were talking about how God seems to do work in our lives, proving to us that we have nothing to do with our progress. We say things or react in ways that we know go against our normal thoughts. The sanctification process is odd, yet beautiful. Because we aren't the ones in control of it, it moves at a pace that goes unnoticed sometimes. This is where my thought came in. Ash was talking about the miscarriage that we experienced just a month ago and talking about how it was one of the first hard things in her life that she had to experience and be a part of. She was saying that it was interesting how she ended up handling the situation. She kind of surprised herself at her response to the sad situation. She talked about how it really wasn't that bad and that she recognized that God was good and in control. I started to think of how God uses the junk, bad, crap (whatever you want to call it) in our lives to show us how much he is growing inside of you. He wanted to show Ash--I know this isn't fun, and not what you want, but I'm going to show you how beautiful I am to you, I want to show you how much you trust me, how I've put a love for me in you, I want to prove to you that although this doesn't make sense, you will trust me with this situation. I want to prove that the pain isn't as bad as you may have thought, because I've been at work in your life, and I'm becoming more glorious and trustworthy to you. I want you to know that your growing, you're being sanctified. I want to show you how I work, how I take bad and make good come from it. How I'm sovereign over all things and have a plan for you, and that plan is to bring glory to myself, and I do that through my people, you bring glory to me in handling this situation with the right perspective, (not to negate the sadness and loss as those are real feelings) you bring glory to me in trusting me even thought you can't see the future but trust that I'm there, you bring glory to me in believing that I'm in control of all things. You bring glory to me in talking about where this trust comes from. You bring glory to me in seeing this situation from an eternal perspective....I've done all this in you and want you to see it, to know I'm all about your sanctification, I'm all about you seeing me as glorious and beautiful, as better than anything, yes even the loss of a baby. I'm at work in you.......see......
March 01, 2009
Mysterious Ways
(Written October 18th, 2008) I was talking to Ash today and stumbled upon some wisdom that seems to come out of nowhere as a believer. We were talking about how God seems to do work in our lives, proving to us that we have nothing to do with our progress. We say things or react in ways that we know go against our normal thoughts. The sanctification process is odd, yet beautiful. Because we aren't the ones in control of it, it moves at a pace that goes unnoticed sometimes. This is where my thought came in. Ash was talking about the miscarriage that we experienced just a month ago and talking about how it was one of the first hard things in her life that she had to experience and be a part of. She was saying that it was interesting how she ended up handling the situation. She kind of surprised herself at her response to the sad situation. She talked about how it really wasn't that bad and that she recognized that God was good and in control. I started to think of how God uses the junk, bad, crap (whatever you want to call it) in our lives to show us how much he is growing inside of you. He wanted to show Ash--I know this isn't fun, and not what you want, but I'm going to show you how beautiful I am to you, I want to show you how much you trust me, how I've put a love for me in you, I want to prove to you that although this doesn't make sense, you will trust me with this situation. I want to prove that the pain isn't as bad as you may have thought, because I've been at work in your life, and I'm becoming more glorious and trustworthy to you. I want you to know that your growing, you're being sanctified. I want to show you how I work, how I take bad and make good come from it. How I'm sovereign over all things and have a plan for you, and that plan is to bring glory to myself, and I do that through my people, you bring glory to me in handling this situation with the right perspective, (not to negate the sadness and loss as those are real feelings) you bring glory to me in trusting me even thought you can't see the future but trust that I'm there, you bring glory to me in believing that I'm in control of all things. You bring glory to me in talking about where this trust comes from. You bring glory to me in seeing this situation from an eternal perspective....I've done all this in you and want you to see it, to know I'm all about your sanctification, I'm all about you seeing me as glorious and beautiful, as better than anything, yes even the loss of a baby. I'm at work in you.......see......
