Remembering the Israelites
“Don’t look back the road is long.”
Well to be honest… we should look back and be reminded of God’s faithfulness. Just like we can look in the Bible and read of God’s faithfulness with Abraham, Noah, Joseph, Joshua, Nehemiah, Daniel, David, Hannah and so on. The same God that was with those, the Lord has shown us from 2,000 years ago is still true today in OUR stories. He is working every second in our lives. I remind my Brayden often that God knows every hair on our head and the number of days we have on earth, as he knit us together in our mother’s womb.
I jokingly said to my Messianic Jewish husband the other night a little tongue in cheek if you will, “You can lead the Israelites through the Red Sea but you can’t keep them from complaining about gathering manna when they get there.”
How true is that for our lives? That God parts the Red Sea like waters for us and then the next day, month, year, we start to doubt his goodness and grumble. Similar to the Israelites delivered from the hands of Pharaoh, we become impatient and thirsty for God to do another big miracle.
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Well, hey (preaching to myself here), God is not a genie, and honestly he works in the small and in the big. He decides who is healed and who is not. He decides when our time is up and when it is not. If you stop to think about it… this should put fear and awe of us to know that we don’t get to decide.
Let’s be real how many of us walk around like we are the ruler of our lives?
Am I getting nobler, better, more helpful, more humble, as I get older? Am I exhibiting the life that men take knowledge of as having been with Jesus, or am I getting more self-assertive, more deliberately determined to have my own way? It is a great thing to tell yourself the truth. —Oswald Chambers
Taking a page from Oswald Chambers book, let’s speak truth to ourselves. God’s truth.
How easy is it for us to convince ourselves that the over scheduled life is what God had planned for us and act like we will live forever. News flash: our time is numbered. Think about that for a second, if God revealed the number of your days would you start to live them differently? Would you treat others differently? How would you prioritize your life—would it change?
After finding out how the Lyme and RSMF had been missed for the last 1.5 yrs, my body started burning from the inside out this week. Head to toe burning… I can imagine that is what eternal damnation in hell feels like.
It happened 5 times in 7 days and praise God the last “episode” a friend talked to me as my speech stuttered (inflamed brain) tried to lead me to cold water in search of temporary relief for my body that just felt like it was going up in flames. This may be attributed to severe nerve damage from having chronic Lyme for so long. God knows!
I am thankful after much prayer the Lord has lead us to christian doctors who we have a peace about. That they’d help my husband and I heal from the Lyme and who knows what other non detected infections. It is NOT in our heads—the white blood cell counts mimic that of those with AIDS. That is how pervasive our infections are.
I am thankful the Lord keeps dropping different women and men in my life at various points which just make no sense to me but continue to remind me God is good. As I remain faithful in spreading his truth when I can get out of the house or my brain is clear enough to text (no matter how I feel). Yeshua remains faithful to refresh my soul even as my physical body continues to waste away for the moment.
PTL for my husband. Seriously ya’ll, God gave me such a tender and sensitive man who continues to want to seek after the Lord.
Would you please join us in prayer 1 John 3 over us that we are Children of God?
See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. —1 John 3:1
This world is not our true home! We breathe in God, breathe out anxiety, fear, the tactics of the enemy.
Greater is He and the Holy Spirit living in us than he who is in the world (John 15:5). We can do nothing good apart from him. Come Lord Jesus, come!
Until then, fill us with peace that surpasses understanding while the storm rages on.
