Monday, April 26, 2010



My Dear God

Dear God,

I have never thanked You for my thorns. I have thanked you a thousand times for my roses, but not once for my thorns. I have always looked forward to the place where I will be rewarded for my cross, but I have never thought of my cross as a present glory itself.

Teach me, O Lord, to glory in my cross. Teach me to value of my thorns. Show me how I have climbed to You through the path of pain. Show me it is through my tears I have seen my rainbows...

Nell c",)

Friday, April 9, 2010

Trusting the IMPOSSIBLE

"We do not know what to do, but our eyes are upon you." - 2 Chronicles 20:12

Living a life of faith often requires us to leave things alone. God taught me that if I have completely entrusted something to HIM, I must keep my hands off it. He can guard it better than I can, and He doesn't need my help. (Ps. 37:7)

I've discovered that there is no burden so heavy that when lifted cheerfully will not become a blessing to me. To REFUSE to bend my shoulders to carry a load, is to miss a new opportunity for growth. (Is. 40:71) No matter how overwhelming any burden God has lovingly placed with His own hands on my shoulders it will be a blessing.

Trusting even when it appears I have been forsaken, praying when it seems my words are simply entering a vast expanse where no one hears and no voice answers; believing that God's love is complete and that HE is aware of my circumstances even my world seems to grind on; desiring only what God's hand have planned for me and waiting patiently while seemingly starving to death - that is genuine FAITH.

In the end, I've learned that He knows the way I take, when HE tested me, I will come forth as gold - I'm more than a CONQUEROR.

TO GOD BE ALL THE GLORY!!! MBR