I am writing from recall from early morning – 3:00 ish. The Little One had stirred hungry. So, I fetched him from his crib, and while he gulped down eight ounces of formula snug between us, love and blessings caressed my thoughts.
Thoughts of the difference from now and then. Thoughts of how I didn’t know. Thoughts I wasn’t then but now am grateful. Thank You, LORD GOD. Not that I got to but I get to.
I get to be free. I get to be kind. I get to be patient. I get to be grateful. I get to be happy. I get to overcome me! I get to love you!
Nothing about this Jesus Life is I GOT TO.
It’s all I GET TO!
It’s Freedom.
This is what freedom in Christ in this moment feels like.
I get to love this baby.
I get to hear him drink in nourishment.
I get to desire the sincere milk of the Word. See 1 Peter 2:2-4.
I get to snuggle with this little package of love. I get to!
A life of I get to. It’s a taste of Heaven on earth!
Is it hard to keep trusting that GOD is always good and we are always loved especially when what is today does not look like what you prayed for? Is it hard to keep a countenance of faith when you see the walls cracking and crumbling and you can do nothing to stop the tumbling and rumbling – in your stomach or their walls?
YES!
But you do. By GOD’s grace you do.
1 Peter 5:7 (AMP) 7 casting all your cares [all your anxieties, all your worries, and all your concerns, once and for all] on Him, for He cares about you [with deepest affection, and watches over you very carefully]. source
8 Though you have not seen Him, you love Him; and though you do not even see Him now, you believe and trust in Him and you greatly rejoice and delight with inexpressible and glorious joy, 9 receiving as the result [the outcome, the consummation] of your faith, the salvation of your souls.source 1 Peter 1 AMP
Yes. Not perfectly yet. But I am delighted to report I am learning!
As we prepare to enter the New Year, there may be some things we will need to leave behind — The Word of our GOD is not one of those things. As we see the times unfolding stepping up our love for and obedience to Thus Saith The LORD will only serve us well!
14 If you are insulted because you bear the name of Christ, you will be blessed, for the glorious Spirit of God rests upon you.
19 So if you are suffering in a manner that pleases God*, keep on doing what is right, and trust your lives to the God who created you, for he will never fail you. source
*That is our suffering is not because of sin we have committed, but rather because we ARE being obedient to Him, then* . . . emphasis mine
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