May My Heart See...

I’m not a very patient person.   Wait, let me re-phrase that, I’m not a patient person AT ALL.    But I’m totally okay with God’s timing – as long as it goes along with my timing.   HA!   What a joke! I’m serious here though.   If I really think about this, I’m usually okay with God’s timing.   Cause its perfect and right and He’s God for heaven’s sake!   This week, however, I have been questioning my “surrendering” of this issue – His Perfect Timing in ALL situations.   Let me just say that for those of you who don’t know me, I run at the speed of light most times.   I don’t mean literally “run” (I’m TOO OLD for that!) – I mean in my workplace (I work at a law office for an attorney who is VERY fast-paced), my home life (remodeling my kitchen, meetings,   Bible studies, social events plus I have three children and three grandchildren, friends, neighbors, parents . . .   ) – are you getting the picture here?   On the whole, I have a VERY FULL life that runs pretty fast.   Oh, I slow

Empty me of all that I am,   Help me to see that THAT is Your Plan. Pour me out, let me know   Your will be done, may it be so. Empty me so I can be used   Any way You want, any time You choose. A blessing to some, a lantern of light,   Filled with Your Spirit, armed by Your might. Empty me of my stubborn pride   Destroy my “self”, may my flesh die. Fill me up with all that is true   Pure, right and good – all that is You. Empty me and help my heart see   Who You are, Your Grace given free. This empty vessel, wanting to do,   Undeserving, not worthy, but called by You. I Peter 2: 21- (ESV): For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in His steps.   He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in His mouth.   When He was reviled, He did not revile in return; when He suffered, He did not threaten, but continued entrusting Himself to Him who judges justly.   He Himself bore our sins in Hi

Did you ever see the old Cinderella movie, you know the one with Leslie Ann Warren as Cinderella?   The musical?   She sings a song entitled, “In My Own Little Corner”   - do you remember it?   She sings, “In my own little corner, in my own little chair, I can be whatever I want to be”    As long as she stays in her own little corner, she’s feelin good.   I was reminded of that song as I was reading in II Chronicles that the Chosen People were now put in exile again .   King Nebuchadnezzar captures Jerusalem and God’s Chosen are NOT their own anymore.   The Chosen haven’t been “choosing” very wisely, I’m thinkin.   The kings are evil, worshiping everything imaginable and making very ungodly “choices”, to say the least.   Needless to say, God leaves them to their own demise and they are exiled AGAIN – which turns out to be a good thing. Wait . . . . a good thing?   Exile?   In the corner?   Surely, not!    There’s no freedom in the corner.   I have to sit still and follow orders.  

The word, LOVE ♥ , can be a word of many meanings, don’t you think?   I can tell a cashier, “I love you!” when she tells me about a coupon!    Think of all the songs about love . . .   I mean, doesn’t “it” make the world go round? But did you know that God IS Perfect Love ♥ – He IS Love ♥ .   He doesn’t represent love or has love, but IS love ♥ .   Like I am a woman.   I don’t represent a woman, but AM a woman.   GOD IS LOVE ♥ .   PERFECT LOVE ♥ . Wikipedia defines love as an emotion of strong affection and personal attachment . In philosophical context, love is a virtue representing all of human kindness , compassion , and affection. The word, “LOVE” appears 508 times in the NIV Bible and if you want to count the words with “LOVE” in them, that’s 697 times!    The Bible says in Romans: Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die.   But God demonstrates His own love ♥ for us in this: While we were still sinners, Ch