Happy 4th blogversary to… me!! Wow, has it really been four years since I first opened this blog in hopes of being an encouragement and blessing to someone? Little did I realize how much of a blessing and encouragement this blog would be to me! It’s been an outlet for my thoughts over the years, and now this blog holds a record of a portion of my heart and life. These years have been the most crucial and pivotal of my life, it’s in these years that God brought me to the end of myself and the beginning of HIM.
It’s been years of wrenching heartache, healing, restoring, and finding joy in HIM. I stand amazed at the awesomeness of my Sovereign GOD. Who in His incredible mercy reached down and took me from the waters that threatened to overwhelm me and led me to the Rock that was higher than
It’s only the beginning really, because it’s only at the foot of the cross that we truly begin to see ourselves and the world in a true light. In the last couple years the Lord has brought me on a journey of joy, and today my heart just overflows with joy. I’m intensely grateful for what He has done and I can only say that I am not worthy, but YOU Lord are worthy to be praised. I’ve learned a bit of the meaning of beauty for ashes, and the oil of joy for mourning. It overwhelms me how awesome my Creator is, that He Who created the universe would reach down to touch one like me. I’m thankful.
The LORD is my strength and song, and is become my salvation. I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD. Ps. 118:14, 17
Thank you friends for the blessing you’ve been in my life, for how the Lord has used you unknowingly to answer my prayers. May you ever be blessed.
God is by no means finished with me yet, it seems that over and over again I wonder how long it will take me to learn, to finally grasp it. I long to reach greater heights and learn more of my Saviour.
These four years have taken me through many different seasons of joy and sorrow, life and death. I’m so thankful for each and every experience that God has given me. And I have such anticipation on my heart and am looking forward with joy to whatever lies ahead. I’m still in the thick of the battle. But one verse the Lord keeps bring to me is that I will not need to fight in this battle, but that I am to stand still and see the salvation of the Lord. (2 Chron. 20:15) It’s hard in the middle of a battle while arrows fly all around you to just stand still, you want to run, to do something, to grab an arrow, to fight, push and make head way, not realizing that the greatest thing towards winning the battle is just standing still and letting the Lord finish the fight. When you try to fight, instead of the arrows dodging you as the Lord had planned, you end up getting hit and wounded and it takes longer to reach the victory. I only get in the way with my feeble efforts. When He can see the big picture and knows exactly how to handle each and every situation.
It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. Psalm 119:71
The Lord has given me grace to love the little things, to be able to laugh a lot harder, love a lot deeper, and treasure each and every moment, to stop and smell the flowers and to be constantly on the lookout for special things to treasure. He’s taught me more of unconditional love, the best medicine for loneliness is reaching out to others and being a friend to them.
This is the last four years looking back, I never dreamed of where I would be today, when I stood then, and I cannot know where I’ll stand in four years from now. I never dreamed that I would continue blogging for so long. But God knows each and every step and it’s my job to follow Him as He leads and do as He commands. I look forward with eager anticipation to what lies ahead, thankful that the Lord walks with me each step of the way. It’s a living, burning hope that I hold in my heart, hoping, praying, living, loving. Thanks be to God. I stand in awe.
2 comments:
Congratulations on four years of blogging and sending out encouragement to us!! :)
I have you in my Google reader and always read your writings; no matter how short or long they are!
It sounds like God has really done a lot in your life in these past four years; I am always amazed; just looking back to see how He has worked in my life and in my heart. He is always molding and shaping us, isn't He?
Wow, that post made me tear up a little. It's so amazing when you can look back on your life and see how far you've come. It's been a joy to see you grow over the last couple years. Keep pressing on. Don't ever give up.
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