It was amazing! Yesterday evening, I was on our back deck, doing my devotions. On our deck, we have a hibiscus tree that tends to attract humming birds. I was sitting just a few feet away from the tree when I heard a buzzing sound (and just so you know, our deck also attracts bumble bees...). I turned my head to make sure the bee (or so i thought) was far away from me, when I saw a little humming bird. I thought for sure when it realized I was there, it would've flown away, but nope. It was so busy, burrowing its face in the plant that it didn't even notice me at first. It took it's beak out of the beautiful flower to move onto the next when it saw me. It flew towards me a little and slowly inched its way a little closer. Before I knew it, the little bird was literally a foot away from my face. It just stared at me, then flew off.
While I was out there, God was showing me how I need to trust Him more. There may be dangers in this life while following the call from God, but I shouldn't be afraid. I should look danger in the face and not be afraid. I should just trust God to keep me safe.
It was amazing that God sent me that little humming bird. Because even though I was sitting there, close to the beautiful hibiscus flower, it wasn't afraid. I could've caused much danger for that tiny bird, but it chose to go to the flower instead; it would've been worth the risk. It even looked me right in the face, and yet it didn't flee from me. It just flew off carelessly. We should be able to trust God enough that even when it can be scary, He'll take care of us. We should be able to look danger in the face and not be afraid because our God is much bigger than the danger before us. We should be able to follow Him, fearless... like that Taylor Swift song,
"Cause I don't know how it gets better than this, You take my hand and drag me head-first, fearless..."
It's gonna be hard, but it's gonna be worth it. God would never call us to do anything that we couldn't handle. So even when (yes, I said when) we do get in danger, God will ALWAYS be there to hold our hand through it.
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Well, here I am again writing about stupid things I should be passed by now. Believe it or not, I am still struggling with going back to my old sins. Sins that I should've just let go a long time ago.
Oddly enough, there was an almost dead fly on my bible this morning, so I opened the window to get it out. (This relates, I promise) I flicked it out, closed the window and tossed my Bible on the floor. About 10 minutes later (while cleaning my room), I realized that when I so carelessly through my Bible on the floor, it had opened and was faced down with pages that were probably wrinkling. I picked it up to realize it was opened to Ephesians 4. As it fit oh-so-perfectly to what I had been learning from God, I began to read picking up from verse 17:
"So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. They are darkened in their understanding and separated form the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts. Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more. You, however, did not come to know Christ in that way. Surely you heard of Him and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus. You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds, and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness."
So much of the time, we keep finding ourselves going back to our foolish ways. We, as Christians should be better than that! We should be so madly in love with Jesus that we shouldn't even want to go back to those old sins! But are we? If not, why not?
It's because everyday when we have the choice to make to live by the world or of God we choose the world. We get so caught up in it and make ourselves think it's so good that we lose track of how completely amazing God is! We forget all He has done for us and what He's doing in us. But we are ignorant and think we know what's best for ourselves. Let me tell you something. We don't.
We need to learn to trust Him that He's really worth it. We need to wake up and get over ourselves. He knows what's best for us because He knows what's coming in the future.
So when you wake up in the morning and when you have to decide to follow Jesus or the world, what are you going to choose?
Oddly enough, there was an almost dead fly on my bible this morning, so I opened the window to get it out. (This relates, I promise) I flicked it out, closed the window and tossed my Bible on the floor. About 10 minutes later (while cleaning my room), I realized that when I so carelessly through my Bible on the floor, it had opened and was faced down with pages that were probably wrinkling. I picked it up to realize it was opened to Ephesians 4. As it fit oh-so-perfectly to what I had been learning from God, I began to read picking up from verse 17:
"So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. They are darkened in their understanding and separated form the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts. Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more. You, however, did not come to know Christ in that way. Surely you heard of Him and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus. You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds, and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness."
So much of the time, we keep finding ourselves going back to our foolish ways. We, as Christians should be better than that! We should be so madly in love with Jesus that we shouldn't even want to go back to those old sins! But are we? If not, why not?
It's because everyday when we have the choice to make to live by the world or of God we choose the world. We get so caught up in it and make ourselves think it's so good that we lose track of how completely amazing God is! We forget all He has done for us and what He's doing in us. But we are ignorant and think we know what's best for ourselves. Let me tell you something. We don't.
We need to learn to trust Him that He's really worth it. We need to wake up and get over ourselves. He knows what's best for us because He knows what's coming in the future.
So when you wake up in the morning and when you have to decide to follow Jesus or the world, what are you going to choose?
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