
Cindy and I are doing workbook #1 so we decided to start a thread each week to record our progress. I hope EVERYONE that wants to will comment, encourage, and mentor us on our journey. Today I began again reading the introduction. I was just so blessed by this paragraph:
"Our God is amazing! He who set the stars in the heavens and measured all of the waters of the earth in the palm of His hand desires intimacy with you (Isaiah 40:12). You are His beloved and He draws you with loving-kindness (Jer. 31:3). All the heavens declare His glory yet He esteems you (Ps. 8:3-8). It is this God who provides the grace, mercy, and strength needed for you to persevere as you trust and obey."
"Our God is amazing! He who set the stars in the heavens and measured all of the waters of the earth in the palm of His hand desires intimacy with you (Isaiah 40:12). You are His beloved and He draws you with loving-kindness (Jer. 31:3). All the heavens declare His glory yet He esteems you (Ps. 8:3-8). It is this God who provides the grace, mercy, and strength needed for you to persevere as you trust and obey."
That God is so patient with me amazes me to the core of my being. I mess up again and again, and He forgives me. I ask Him to help me lose weight, and He shows me how and then I don't obey. This is the key: obedience. Help me, Lord, to be obedient today.I know that in me dwelleth no good thing. Rom. 3:10 says "As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none tht seeketh after God." The legalist has no hope; our righteousness is as filthy rags. I must trust the grace of my Savior. When Paul sought God about his thorn, he told us in 2 Cor. 12 "And he said unto me, My grace is suffiecient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Therefore I will rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me." I have known this power as God led me through the dark hour of my life when I lost my daughter. As long as I leaned on HIM, I could make it. When I got in the flesh, I thought I would die! Another paragraph in the workbook, p B-3 says
"The work of the cross of Christ is our stabilizing force. We rest in the fact that the grace of God is immeasurable and steadfast, which transforms and grounds us through His Word. When we stumble and fall, we rely on God's amazing grace and the power of the Holy Spirit as He gently leads us back onto the path of His provision (Is. 40:11)."
"The work of the cross of Christ is our stabilizing force. We rest in the fact that the grace of God is immeasurable and steadfast, which transforms and grounds us through His Word. When we stumble and fall, we rely on God's amazing grace and the power of the Holy Spirit as He gently leads us back onto the path of His provision (Is. 40:11)."
I included this drawing of my granddaughter and me. We were having our picture made at one of those machines; the first time I wasted money trying to figure out how to do it (it drew a picture of my sweater sleeve). The second time I realized what was happening, that the machine was drawing our picture and if we didn't hold still the picture would be distorted. I didn't get the picture I wanted (preferably centered), but I did get a better picture than the one of my sweater sleeve. We are both staring at the machine as it draws the finished product. What will our finished product look like? Do we sometimes try to help God not to let us look "distorted" to the world. I have learned He isn't worried about his reputation. He is worried about me: the end product. He is still working on me, and I must not "freeze" in a position to look pretty, but I must simply let HIM finish the work.
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