Saturday, December 13, 2008
Learn something you already knew.
I have had a hard year and a half. I have been making horrible decisions in my life; some recent some not so recent. How do I move on from the guilt of the past year when I feel like I'm stuck and I don't know how to move on? I only know one person to turn to and that is Jesus Christ. I have been trying to read the Bible more and pray more and turn my life back around. I'm not sure how my life change looks like right now or will look like in the near future, but I wish a life change could happen automatically. It would be so much easier. The journey to the change is interesting however. I know I will learn a ton of things about myself and my walk with Christ. I look back at myself when I was in junior high and high school and how much I was in love with God. I wonder what happened to that relationship with him. I think most people would blame Satan, but he is not always the one to blame; I blame my bad choices that God allows me to make. I think he does this to show us something else about himself. I learned something about God through this past year. He never leaves me. I know, that is something everyone knows about God, but do we believe it; do we personally know that it is true? We sometimes have to go through hard things in order for God to teach us something we already knew. We will see the teaching in a whole different light; and for that, I thank God for all the hard times I had this past year.
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Isaiah 48:10 says, "See, I have refined you, though not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction." and Malachi 3:3
ReplyDeletesays, "He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; he will purify the Levites and refine them like gold and silver" and 1 Peter 1:7 says, "These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed."
God has been refining you through this past year. Fire burns and it hurts, but His desire is to have those impurities burnt off so that when He looks at us (the silver) He can see His reflection in the silver. And all of this so that He can praised, glorified and honored through what He will do in and through our struggles.
As James said so well, "Consider it pure joy, my brothers (and sisters), whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything."
God is growing you into the woman He made you to be! Stay strong and continue to take comfort in the truth that He will NEVER leave you!