Sometimes I can get pretty sick of going over those bumps that come along my path. You know what I mean? Have you ever felt that way? Sometimes my attitude is like, "can't I just get through stuff without so many hurdles?" Is it okay if I be honest here? I mean I like to be real when I write. I write what is on my heart, and I love to share what God teaches me because that is a lot! I always think of Hebrews 12:1 I feel like that is the theme verse of my life, because it says we must throw off everything and run with perseverance. It gets rather difficult sometimes to keep running when you're tired and your heart is burning. But we never have to run in our own strength. God gives us the strength to run each race, and He promises that He will never leave us. What do we do when we have an attitude of I just can't do it anymore? Maybe you feel just plain sick of running and moving forward. We are human, and sometimes we do feel that way don't we? It is okay, but when we are tempted to have that sour attitude, we have to seek God and ask Him to help us turn it around. Something that I like to do when my heart is downcast and I feel really low with a rotten attitude I like to stop and think about all that I have.
I have many blessings. It helps me to stop and think about that. I also like to read the Psalms because David writes so much about what he is feeling. I can relate to a lot of it and I like to make it personal and pray those Psalms. God wants us to pray what is on our hearts, and He is always there to listen anytime day or night. When I spend my time focussing on God and how much He loves me and spend less time feeling sorry for myself, it feels as though I have had an attitude turn-around and everything becomes so much greater. So when you face that bump in the road it is your choice on how you handle it. I enourage you to be real about it. Talk to God about how you are feeling, and you may want to find a trusted friend and allow them to be your prayer warrior. That is one of the greatest blessings you can have is someone who will pray with you, and more than that a heavenly Father who will always be there listening to your cries. You can find shelter in His arms. So turn on some encouraging worship music, lay your head back, and allow yourself to melt away in the arms of Jesus. There is no greater place to be.
Julie,
ReplyDeleteAS I was opening your blog these verses came to my head. I have been thinking and praying about you all day! I was laying on the floor in the boys room this afternoon trying to get them to STAY in their beds for nap and I was praying for you! You are a wonderful woman with great faith in our Heavenly Father. Look to him for what is ahead of you not things of this world, meaning people or things! Keep us updated on how to pray for you! We love you so much!!
Love you Kelly
Romans 8:26 (NIV)
In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express.
Romans 8 31-39
Nothing Can Separate Us from God’s Love
31 What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us? 32 Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won’t he also give us everything else? 33 Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own? No one—for God himself has given us right standing with himself. 34 Who then will condemn us? No one—for Christ Jesus died for us and was raised to life for us, and he is sitting in the place of honor at God’s right hand, pleading for us.
35 Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death? 36 (As the Scriptures say, “For your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep.”[o]) 37 No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.
38 And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,[p] neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. 39 No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.