It's funny....not really funny... actually amazing...but why should it be? I've said at least a hundred times that I hope I never stop being amazed at God working His perfect plan. I hope to always sharply draw air into my lungs, as in a gasp, each time I see how he fulfills His plan....not only with grace and peace but with opportunity.
And so it's been.....this second week of vacation...a respite from cold weather, from busyness.....
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Week one had me paired with two incredibly lovely women I've know forever, family..... my beloved's sister and another sister-in-law, married to my beloved's youngest brother. How I adore them. ❤️ One loves Jesus as I do. With a heart so full He overflows from our lips. The other, searching for the relationship we have with Him. Not everyone who loves Jesus outwardly attributes Him to everything or makes known the reason for the hope that they have. Not because they love Him less....but because everyone has their own expression....everyone has their own journey. But her and I are that type. We engaged others at poolside, in the pool, at restaurants....it was so apparent that when two or more are gathered He is there...and those two or more are on a mission for Jesus 😍.....let's just say He honors our enthusiasm in amazing ways...of which I've shared a couple of those times in posts below.
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Changing locations this week to a much larger resort doesn't lend to conversation with others as was the case last week. We are so far apart...not as intimate. I'm also in a different spot. My witness is not more important but it's definitely more directed. Not to those around me but to my companion. I want ALL in my "circle of influence" to know Jesus as Savior. I find it quite easy to have conversation with another believer...it's quite another to talk Jesus with someone who is searching. There's an urgency and a desire to do it right. I really think others watch closely, not necessarily just for Bible quotations and constant talk about Jesus and his Word, but also in actions....interactions with strangers, how stress is handled....do I show calm or am I anxiety ridden? Am I kind, do I extend understanding? Who I am, to the heart level, IS my witness!! Of course those are MY thoughts. God's thoughts are not my thoughts nor his ways my ways. I hear Him say, "Dianna, be who I created you to be. Stop striving! Relax! Stop waiting to fail! Stop waiting for the other shoe to drop! Just be you, I'll do the rest!"
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Thank you God that you take the pressure off. Help me to see that I am not a failure in your eyes. Help me to see that as I look towards you and lean not on my own understanding YOU will direct not only my path but what you want others to see and hear through me. I'm grateful that I have your Word to remind me not to lean on my own thoughts and ways.
"May the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be pleasing in your sight O Lord my Rock and Redeemer."
I'm thankful you already know I can't achieve perfection (and that you don't actually ask me to). But I can, step by step, with your strength become more like you each day of my life here on earth. No, not reaching perfection but being transformed by the continual renewing of my mind until the day you call me home to live, in perfection, in your presence.
What a day that will be! ❤️
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