Sometimes!!
Sometimes it is really rough to get up, to press on, to push forward when everything within looks like one big battle after another, struggle after struggle that seems to never end.
But yet there is within, that still small voice, that speaks to us, lets us know, that it is all right, that our Lord is with us.
And it is as we learn to respond to that still small voice in the midst of all that is going on, that we begin to grow and begin to move forward in the Lord.
It is a day by day, moment by moment walk with the Lord that gives us the strength to press forward.
It is the hope within, knowing that we don’t have to have a spirit of fear, of anxiety, but rather to put on the full armour of the Lord. That He has given us a spirit of strength and hope.
That our focus is turned from us, to Him and to others. In doing so, healing is brought to us and makes us stronger in our weakness because our dependency is on Him.
It is one of those things that is hard to put into words, in our weakness we are made strong, in becoming a servant, we become free. It is realizing that it is Christ within that lives, no longer us that lives, yet we live.
In other words, we are ourselves in Christ, becoming that portrait, becoming all that we are meant to be and to fulfill His will in our lives.
There are days and sometimes weeks that we have to choose to rise up each day over the pain, over the battles, the wounds and the hurts and make a sacrifice of praise and worship, of adoration to the Lord.
In that action, we are lifted by the spirit of the Lord to overcome those obstacles, events in our lives, by the word of God, by the spirit and enabled to walk in the Lord.
Sometimes the Lord will send people our way to encourage us. To remind us that greater is He that is within us. I had the privilege of meeting a new friend this week, a member of CWG who took time to come and visit me here in Kennesaw.
We talked about writing, life and about the Lord. It was a time of encouragement to me and I came away blessed and strengthen in my spirit. I want to say thank you because you indeed blessed me, encouraged me and reminded me how blessed I am with my children and grand-children here in Georgia.
As I look back I can see how the Lord is slowly but surely bringing me forth into His purpose for this day and time. That He is given me the honor and privilege to be a pen in His hand. To write what He puts on my heart.
Sometimes daily, maybe weekly. That He is molding me and shaping me into His image, His character, to reflect the Christ within. Most importantly He is teaching me to look beyond myself, to look to Him and to draw strength that I need each day to walk with Him.
There is hope and there is purpose for each of us and it is only when we cry out to our Father, that He lifts us above the wounds, the pains, the hurts, to walk with Him.
To draw His strength, that overcomes the dark nights of the soul and brings out of that darkness into the light of His presence and enables us to walk each day, to reach out and to focus on Him, to give to others what has been given to us.
I know that it is only as I write, as I share, as I talk that I can express the things that the Lord has and is writing on my heart, that which hopefully will cause others to draw closer to the Lord, to find their strength in Him.
It is during this time of writing, of sharing, of giving out of what the Lord has given me, that I am coming into the purposes that the Lord has for me.
That it is as we yield to the Lord, that we will find the strength to press on and in and know that we are pleasing our Father and that He will teach us to focus on others and thus setting us free to receive healing from Him.
Till later,
Paul