We are coming upon a fabulous day, when we celebrate the closing of one year and the beginning of another year! What a great time to think about all the blessings God has poured out on us all. This past month, as you have read here on the blog, we lost Randy’s dad. A friend of mine sent a card to us and it went something like this. “In spite of our circumstances, we still have that unexpressible joy deep down in our hearts because of what Christs has done for us. We know that this parting will be just for a short time. We know that God has given us joy when we have had sadness. He has given us peace, when we have had times of unrest. He has given us comfort during times of pain. He has given us hearts of thankfulness in times when we felt we didn’t have much to be thankful for. He has given us love, when we were going through times of feeling alone and unloved. He has given us strength when we were feeling so weak and helpless.”
If we think back throughout this past year, I’m sure you, like me, have had days, maybe months when all we could do was cry out to our Lord because we just did not know what else to do. It was during those times when He leads us beside the still waters. He upholds us with His Righteous Right Hand. He carrys us when we just cannot walk another step. He lifts us out of the pit we are in, sometimes put there by the choices we have made. He is our Rock and our Redeemer. Let’s commit this new year, 2010 to Him and give Him our lives, our hearts and our talents. I pray that I won’t just give Him my agenda and expect Him to bless it. That I will trust him, allowing Him to lead me where He wants me to go.
I Kings 19 tells us that Elijah dealth with self-pity, but also loss of physical and emotional strength, but…….God in His mercy came to Elijah and gave him rest, food for strength and also showed him the plan in which Elijah was to prepare. It wasn’t until Elijah got away by himself, surrendered his heart and his will that God came to him in a gentle whisper. That is my prayer for my life this year. That I will step away from all the unnecessary “have to’s” of my life and “be still and know that He alone is God” and allow Him to show me in His own way, His will.
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