A young girl is learning to play the piano. She has been playing for a year now. She attends a concert with her mother where a pianist plays beautiful music and plays it so very well. The girl is discouaged... not knowing if she will EVER be able to play that well and feeling like a failure for not being at that level of excellence. She is overwhelmed. What does good enough even look like?
This is how I have felt. I see what it looks like to be the woman of God that I want to be... but I am overwhelmed with the persistent and diligent pursuit of wisdom and experience that this will require. I have realized with the help of my brothers and sisters that that Lord has blessed me with recently, that what God asks is our best. His best is something to constantly reach for and with practice we will get closer and closer. Let us run the race... mount up on wings like eagles... and not grow weary. It's a long journey... but I will run the race set out before me with passion and diligence.
This is what I desire more than anything in the world. To be infiltrated by and to have written on my heart the fruits of the spirit. To have them saturate so potently everything I am.
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Galatians
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
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I want to be renewed. I want to experience the Lord's love and allow it to overflow into everything I am and everything I do.
Bethany Dillon
New
What is this sun that conquers mountains
Singing over what has been asleep?
What is it that softens all my doubting?
It's you
Morning brings a hunger for new eyes
That have been covered by the hurt of yesterday
Who could create in me the vision of a little child?
It's you
You take an ordinary day
And turn it into flowers like the month of May
Yes you do
You see all my pain
You cry over it for hours till I'm new again
Yes you do
When I have been a victim of familiarity
When my heart has fallen into sleep
Healing is the voice that awakens me
And it is you
You take an ordinary day
And turn it into flowers like the month of May
Yes you do
You see all my pain
You cry over it for hours till I'm new again
Yes you do
You, you make me new...
For about a month now I have been struggling with a loss of direction, purpose, and passion. When this scripture was read to me today I felt warm tears spill onto my cheeks. I felt His voice. For the first time in so long I felt my Love, my Friend, my God's pressence. I feel as if I have purpose again.
2 Peter 1
3 His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.
4 Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature (CHRISTLIKE!) and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.
5 For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge;
6 and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness;
7 and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love.
8 For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9 But if anyone does not have them, he is short-sighted and blind, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his past sins.
10 Therefore, my brothers, be all the more eager to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never fall,
11 and you will receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
I think I could work towards this for the rest of my life and never master it. But these two passages of scripture will give me something solid to work towards. I am no longer overwhelmed. I am excited and ready to serve. :)
Praise the Lord for His goodness and faithfulness.
He has brought me, once again, back into fellowship with Him
and has restored purpose and direction into my life.
Be blessed :)
Korey Ann Canfield
