Looking Back To The Future!!
Sometimes, it is good to look back to remember!
As I sit here this morning at Isaacks, drinking my coffee. I began to remember all that the Lord has done in my life over the last few years.
Though the path was a hard path, a path of pain, of suffering, of hurt, yet it was a path that brought me to the place that I am now in my walk with the Lord.
The Lord knew what it would take to wake me up, to get me back into alinement with Him. He allowed things to happen but at the same time He gave me strength to walk through the fire. Through the refining fire that began to remove the dross in my life so that which would come forth, would reflect Him.
That has become the theme, the focus of my life. That I would be a reflection of Christ in all that I do, in what I write and hopefully in the life that I live.
Over the last few weeks I have seen the Lord do things in my life that I thought would be impossible in this life but I learned that nothing is impossible with the Lord.
The time with my children, with my former wife and family members has been a blessing. I have been blessed to have them in my life. Gloria, Joshua, and Elise are a testimony of God’s love to Jodie and I.
I have made a lot of mistakes in my life but marrying Jodie was not one of them. Our children and grand-children, again, are a testimony to that.
As I prepare to head back to Kennesaw, Georgia next week, I have no ideal what the final chapter will be, but the one thing that I do know is that God’s plans, for my children, my grand-children and my former wife are good plans and though we are a fractured family, we are not without hope.
Take time my friends today to give thanks for those whom the Lord has given you. Lift them before the Lord. Allow His light and life to shine forth and serve them with a heart of love and see your wife, your husband, your children and even yourself through the eyes of a loving, heavenly Father who wants to love others through you!
Our God is a loving Father who cares for us more than we could ever know. He loves us so much that He will allow us to go through the fires to bring forth in us what He intended all along, a reflection of the Christ within, that will draw others to Him.
Reflect that life to others. Let them see in you a hope that is born of the Spirit, a hope that reaches out and touches those around you. That where ever you go and what ever you do, the presence of the Lord will be with you and it will touch others!!
Till later,
Paul