Even in the midst of trial, doubt, and stress, God’s faithfulness remains. Our family has been through some hard times recently. Here is an update and another attempt to get back into the blogging community.
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Many of you are aware that the last few weeks have been difficult for our family. Our 15-month daughter was hospitalized for two weeks with several health issues and we are continuing to care for her with extra measures at home.
After many tears, sleepless nights, and hospital tests without many answers right away you start to lose heart, doubt, and even seem to lose faith at times. Then, when you reach a point of calm, you begin to believe the lies that God is disappointed in you for losing faith and for questioning Him and His sovereign ways. Then He brings this amazing thought to mind: although we are not always faithful, He is.
No matter what we think or feel, God is continually waiting with outstretched arms to hold us and carry us through trial, even when we ask, “why.” Oh, He is good, and He is taking care of us. We hold on to this promise during this time, will you, when you go through trial?
Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. I say to myself, “The LORD is my portion; therefore I will wait for him.” Lamentations 3:22-24
The Bible is very clear that there are times when we need to learn to submit ourselves to someone else. We can offer our lives by first submitting to God’s authority in everything that we do, but also by submitting to earthly authorities, even when we think we’re the ones in the right. Today we took a look at 1 Peter 2 to learn another way to offer ourselves as living sacrifices to our amazing God.
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I have lived most of my life as a spontaneous procrastinator. Lately, God is using several things to change my attitude and confirm in me the importance of planning ahead. I’d like to share some great benefits that I’ve recently seen as a result of good preparation.
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Well, after a week of full-time work and an under-the-weather baby at home – life has become quite interesting! However, even with a busy week at home, I think I have finally figure out a system to keep myself sane and to keep up-to-date on things that I’d like to keep doing. So, from here forward I’m going to try (without any guarantees of success) to make weeks look like this:
- Monday and Tuesday – two-part series on topics ranging from leadership to new music to music theory.
- Wednesday – How to Be an Offering – back to this blog’s original roots.
- Thursday – Review (book or music or technology)
- Friday – Nothing – I’ve decided it’s okay to not post every day of the week (especially since I haven’t posted ANY days of the week for a while)
I’m not going to be able to get to any comments left until either evenings or early mornings of the next day – and those of you who follow on Twitter I’ll be tweeting those same times.
God has blessed me with several things in the last week – one major one being a new outlook on several areas of my life – I’m looking forward to seeing the fruit of it.
