Monday, October 29, 2012
^_^
Despite the busy life I've committed to, I still find a way to add more responsibilites and obligations onto it.
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
God's Words
Reading 1 Chronicles 20 tonight, verses 9-13 really spoke to me tonight.
"Then the Lord spoke to Gad, David's seer, in these words: 'Go tell David: Thus says the LORD: I offer you three alternatives; choose one of them, and I will inflict it on you."
Accordingly, Gad went to David and said to him: "Thus says the LORD: Decide now--will it be three years of famine; or three months of fleeting from your enemies, with the sword of your foes ever at your back; or three days of the LORD's own sword, a pestilence in the land, with the LORD's destroying angel in every part of Israel? Therefore choose: What answer am I to give him who sent me?" Then David said to Gad: "I am in dire straits. But I prefer to fall into the hand of the LORD, whose mercy is very great, then to fall into the hands of men."
I was just like "Wow!" When I read it, I was like "If I were in that position, what would I choose??" David's reply just totally struck a cord deep within my being. I want to think like him. I want to be so connected with God, so understanding of Him, know Him, to fully surrender my life to HIM! And to trust in His love and mercy so wholly!
Surrendering my life to Him is a daily choice, a daily inner, selfish, trying battle. "The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak."
"Then the Lord spoke to Gad, David's seer, in these words: 'Go tell David: Thus says the LORD: I offer you three alternatives; choose one of them, and I will inflict it on you."
Accordingly, Gad went to David and said to him: "Thus says the LORD: Decide now--will it be three years of famine; or three months of fleeting from your enemies, with the sword of your foes ever at your back; or three days of the LORD's own sword, a pestilence in the land, with the LORD's destroying angel in every part of Israel? Therefore choose: What answer am I to give him who sent me?" Then David said to Gad: "I am in dire straits. But I prefer to fall into the hand of the LORD, whose mercy is very great, then to fall into the hands of men."
I was just like "Wow!" When I read it, I was like "If I were in that position, what would I choose??" David's reply just totally struck a cord deep within my being. I want to think like him. I want to be so connected with God, so understanding of Him, know Him, to fully surrender my life to HIM! And to trust in His love and mercy so wholly!
Surrendering my life to Him is a daily choice, a daily inner, selfish, trying battle. "The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak."
Life
To not fall prey to where I've been before. To learn from the past, to not repeat it.
Sometimes I just feel I get so comfortable with how great life is, that instead of staying focused on God [cause it is only Him who delivered me from the depth of my own self], I turn to what got me into the funk to begin with.
Sometimes I just feel I get so comfortable with how great life is, that instead of staying focused on God [cause it is only Him who delivered me from the depth of my own self], I turn to what got me into the funk to begin with.
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