Get Over the Mountain
For the longest time I have always looked to other peoples’ advice on how to live my life. I’ve read articles on how to dress, how to act around friends and significant others, how to be happy, how to get the guy back after a break up, etc. All of these sources coming from people just like you and I. The only problem…these people didn’t create you and I. They don’t know why certain things happen in our lives, or why we are in a specific phase of our lives. The only truth I’ve found is in the Word. The true book of instruction, direction, answers, love, all written by our profound Creator. If advice you are given doesn’t line up with the Word of God, it’s not advice you should be taking. I’m not saying that every advice column or friend is wrong in their opinions, because obviously everyone is entitled to their own, but I am saying that if their opinions don’t match what God says it’s not biblical.
Furthermore, I have recently endured some not so pleasant events that I can’t seem to fathom. I don’t understand why a God so loving and Who wants to give us the desires of our heart could let such heart-wrenching trials occur in our lives. It’s heartbreaking and leaves you feeling like there is no hope left. I was feeling this way until a friend told me something that Joyce Meyer’s once said, “You can be pitiful or you can be powerful.” That stood out to me and immediately looked at how I was acting. I thought “I must be pitiful, because I’m certainly NOT powerful right now.” I decided it was time for a change. First things first I needed to stop looking behind me. You can’t see where you’re going if you’re still looking behind you. I had to let go of the things that were hurting me because they were actually hindering me. I couldn’t be healed if I wouldn’t let Jesus put a band-aid over my wound. Time is healing and it still hurts, the bible never said it would be easy. If life was easy, why would we ever need Him?
As I was reading my book tonight, a verse was flashing in big red lights to me. It read “The Lord our God said to us in Horeb, You have dwelt long enough on this mountain.” To me this meant, “you have been dwelling long enough on the same mountain, it’s definitely time to move on.” How could I be searching for advice from everyone and everything and getting so much feedback but none of it satisfied me. I still felt like there was something I needed to hear to help me feel better. And there it was. Written plainly before me, and guess where I could’ve found it? That’s right, in the Bible. Sometimes we have to take what God says and just believe that it’s all we need. I look at this now and I can see that the God who created EVERYTHING out of NOTHING can certainly handle the situations I’m facing.
In conclusion, it’s okay for me to be sad about what has happened and I can still hope that things work out the way I want them to. But more than anything I want to live in God’s perfect will. If everything doesn’t turn out exactly how I hope it will, I know I’ll be okay, and I’ll survive because the Living God is alive in me. He will work everything for the good in all situations in my life. <3
http://salvationishere11.tumblr.com/ Girls:
you are beautiful. The Creator of the universe calls YOU beautiful and delights in you. Think about that. He created beautiful sunsets, breathtaking waterfalls, and gorgeous snow covered mountains. And He created…
My dear love,
I have been very selfish my whole life. Upon examining my life, I realized that even good things that I crave are often backed by misguided intentions. I crave independence and solace, perhaps less due to the fact that I need time for myself, but perhaps more driven by the fact that I can just worry about one person’s needs and wants (that of myself).
Growing up with much younger siblings, it seems natural for me to be maternal and caring. As I examine my life, however, I realize just how broken I truly am. I realize that I often live life to take care of my needs and wants, without actively trying to serve others to the best of my ability. Although I’d like to think that I am a loving person, it shocked me to find, deep in the recesses of my heart, that there are many people who I had grave difficulty in loving.
The Bible says that we are “corrupt” or in another translation, “rotten to the core” (Psalm 53:3). Having gone to church for most of my formative years, I sometimes deluded myself in believing that I am somewhat more “sanctified” (if that could even be measured). What I have realized instead is that I’ve often surrendered my superficial sins to God, while many deeper (and more painful) sins have yet to be surrendered.
God is revealing to me daily that I am nowhere close to being in a relationship with you. I seek to serve myself, as revealed by my attitudes and my daily actions. I am nowhere close to being able to serve Him wholeheartedly, serve you as a wife or to serve our children as a mother. I am so angry at my sins and so grieved by my sinful nature. Yet, “Christ has set us free”, so that we could “stand firm… not let [ourselves] be burdened again by a yoke of slavery” (Galatians 5:1). What a wonderful promise!
I am pledging to you and to our wonderful heavenly Father today that I will strive to “walk by the Spirit” daily and not “gratify the desires of the flesh” (Galatians 5:16). I will strive daily to serve others “humbly in love” (Galatians 5:13).
What a wretched sinner I am,
your future wife
Girls, stop chasing guys. Pursue God and he will prompt the right guy who is pursing Him to pursue you! I have never seen that fail!
– Johnny Lewis (via and-a-timetodance)(Source: godmoves)
Via We live, We love, We forgive & never give up
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