So this is my first ever blog.. YAY! I am so excited about this... I hope that I have enough interesting things that happen that I will be able to post some of my happenings.
I wanted to start this blog with a lesson that seems to keep haunting me, you know one of those moments where you know that God is at work in your life but that is difficult none the less... yeah I am in one of those times in life. Recently I feel like I am in a trial/testing of my faith times. I have found myself beginning to get discouraged by things that are going on. God is defiantly working on me, I can learn a lesson one day and then a month or so later it feels like I am relearning it. Well maybe not relearning but being reminded that no matter what the situation God has it under control, He is so much BIGGER than me or my problems. Well this last couple of weeks in my life have been that of reminding.
With the stuff that has been going on recently, I have been reminded to continue to lay my issues at His feet and let them be. This lesson was taught to me while in my daily quiet times... I was reading out of a mini devotional guide called Journey and Romans 8:28-30 was used. This passage gives us God's promise that ALL things work out for good for those that love Him. As if this was not enough for me to have an aha moment I was also starting the book of James that day and the first chapter tells us that we should have joy in our trials because they are helping to mature us. Wow! How awesome not only does God remind me that He has it under control but also that if I allow it He will use my life to bring GLORY to Him and that is my prayer, that my life would just be a light for Him and a vessel for Him to use. Each experience that we encounter as believers should be used as a tool for the furthering of the kingdom, somewhere out there is someone that needs the encouragement, or better yet to hear the Gospel for the first time. Things like this allow us to relate to people.
