Deut 8:11 "Take care lest you forget the LORD your God by not keeping his commandments and his rules and his statutes,...and all you have is multiplied, then your heart be lifted up, and you forget the LORD your God, who...
-born me healthy
-who watched over my safety as a child and my innocence when circumstances were not favorable.
-who placed me in a loving christian woman's home when my mother forsook me.
-who guided my path to the church in a city on a mission trip to where i'd receive his salvation.
-who never gives up on me even when I stray.
Deut 8:17 (paraphrased with my own translation) "Beware lest you say in your heart, none of these blessings are from God."
Hi Sis,
ReplyDeleteYou've posted rightly with these words. I'm so grateful for His passionate pursuit of me. Truly, where would I be if He decided to base His love and grace on me instead of me basing it on Him? That's why I get so mad when I see churches like Westboro standing on street corners yelling, "God hates...." Because they totally disavow His grace and mercy. They disgrace His loving name and misrepresent Him as a hating dictator instead of grace-filled, loving, compassionate, merciful, understanding, awaiting God that He is. Only those who don't know Jesus would think God hates anyone based on their sexual preferences or whether they've been through a divorce or not. But having Him in the heart tells us all we need to believe about His true nature! A nature of agape!
Amen!! God is Love, He is a loving God, He is a personal God with feelings and emotions.
Deletep.s. Monica, I was perusing your oldest posts after I left my comment on the previous post....and I can see why you changed the name of your blog from 'Limbo' to 'Wandering Heart'.
ReplyDeleteGod has blessed you with His fire! Hallelujah!
When I first started this blog, I wasn't in the spiritual place I wanted to be in. I truly felt at limbo with the Lord. I was always wondering, "Monica are you going to stop pursuing Him? Or are you gonna get in the race and pursue Him?"
ReplyDeleteSince I've started this blog, and have had encouragement from people on here, especially my friend Kelline, I have really seen my spiritual walk with the Lord blossom. And have come to a place now where I have a true confidence in His ability to keep me and me knowing that i'd never want to live this life without Him.
And yes I wander every now again but each time the wandering shortens or isn't real wandering at all.
thank you for stopping by Susan :)
I love the title of this blog. When I started my walk with the Lord I was similar to you, in that I also was concerned with whether I would stop walking with Him, would I be drawn away back to my old ways or simply drawn away to other things,it worried me so much. I had a ton of growing to do, I was still learning about God and How wonderful He is and how He works in our lives. This scripture helped me to realize that I belong to God and always will. :-) "My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand." John 10:29. Also check out John 17 it is so amazing it helped me to understand how salvation works and that we were chosen for this very reason to give Him the glory and to praise Him. :-) May God continue to bless you with wisdom and love. :-)John 15 is awesome too, check it out :-)
DeleteP.S. Kelline is also awesome :-)
Hi, your blog is so lovely, I especially love that pic on top, beautiful. This post is very nice, it is so awesome how we can trace Gods presence in our lives back to our childhood. He has always been there and that's amazing.
ReplyDeleteHi Sateigdra, thanks for stopping by my blog. Yes a few years back I went up in church for prayer. And the lady said to me, that I didn't think God was with me in my early years, but he was there, watching over me. Praise the Lord!
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