Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude.
It does not demand its own way.
It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged.
It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices in the truth.
Love never gives up,
never loses faith,
is always hopeful,
and endures through every circumstance.
When I say I love you and mean it with a Godly love, this is what I mean.
Today my prayer is, Lord, increase my faith! I am so tempted to get my eyes of my heavenly Father and on my circumstances. I was meditating yesterday how Jesus did all these great miracles and he taught with wisdom and authority but when the disciples prayed, "Lord, increase our faith!", it was after Jesus taught them that they were to forgive seventy times seven in one day. My heart is broken at the bitterness and unforgiveness that I've held on to for years that has held me in captivity and held those whom I haven't forgiven also in captivity. Jesus is walking with me through a journey of freedom and I owe Him. I know there are things in my near future that God has for me and for our family, I can feel a sense of expectation. And at the same time, I can see clearly, the attack of the enemy on my heart, bringing so many distractions and temptations. But I know in whom I trust and I know that HE will guard what I have trusted to Him and He has conquered sin and death and I daily walk in that victory, believing with my whole heart what I don't quite see clearly.
This morning, as I prepare for the day, and for the inevitable battle that is to come, I fix my eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of my faith and since I'm surrounded by a great a cloud of witnesses, I lay aside the weights and sins that mess me up and I run with patience the race that is before me.
I take my thoughts captive, I CAN do all things through His strength.
Today. Just for today.
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