As I was going about my day the thought came to me of just how really mindful of our needs the Lord is.
Maybe I already blogged about this, or maybe it has just been on my mind a lot lately. There have been so many times I have prepared myself for "death". sometimes in the spiritual sense, sometimes the death of my hopes, or dreams, or just really wondered and worried about how I would make it through the week. At times I have been spiritually starving, or emotionally drained, physically sick, or so broke we couldn't buy groceries, heart broken, let down by somebody I had confidence in.....you know, just times when you want to feel sorry for yourself.I wondered, how will I get the spiritual FOOD for my soul, I would look in all the right places but instead of food it was an empty paper plate I found. That is when I learned I have to have food for my soul at home, always before I could just go to church and as he has done for 20+ years Bro. Bennie would spiritually feed me. The bible said, in I Samuel 30
(Read it for yourself , http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Samuel+30&version=KJV )
6And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.
this was a time when everything David loved, his wives, the wives of his men, the children of his men, had all been kidnapped and everything in their camp burnt. There has never been a time in my life when things were this bad! If David in the midst of such sorrow could, encourage or strengthen himself in the Lord, surely I could do the same. Surely, I can look back on my life and the goodness of God, the mercy He has shown, the Grace he has given and the Peace I now have.....and find strength after all He is still the same God, He has seen me through before, and He has promised to see me through, always.
I was reminded of the widow woman in I Kings 17, who had prepared to die.
12And she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.
(Read it yourself, don't take my word for it : http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Kings+17&version=KJV )
This lady was down to her last meal, quite literally! No money to buy anything, no garden to harvest, not one more meal in the house beside this "death meal", she wasn't eating cake ( of course I am thinking Chocolate) she was mixing together oil and flour....how much more broke can you be?! And Yet if you read the rest of this chapter you see how God DAILY provided "just enough". There are so many days that God has made a way and I will pray, "But what about tomorrow Lord, what will we do tomorrow", and yet when tomorrow comes, He provides for yet another day.
Psalms 68 :19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits...
Read it: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalms%2068&version=KJV )
It is with a thankful heart that I have went through my day, humbled yet again by His goodness to our family. I may not have a million $ but , I have a God who will supply my needs daily, and that is good enough for me ;)
On a side note, thank-you for all the encouragement for my blog, I am overwhelmed at the emails or texts or kind words, I pray that you are encouraged, uplifted, and that you are reminded Life is hard no doubt about it but, isn't God good to each of us....
Love,
Jamie
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