Are you inside the way you look on the outside?
Too often I look in the mirror and wonder what on earth I am doing here because I certainly am not on the inside what most people get to see on the outside. There is a lot of sin and left over "natural man" that needs refining. This journey of sanctification is only too slow of a process.
I only wish that the inside was more Christ.
Recently I took a few pictures of trucks busting at the seams.
Sometimes I feel like I am just holding it together but at any moment I may burst out from the cover of "sanity" and all will be laid bare. The truth is; life is hard. Life hurts.
So where do I go from here.
To the cross.
To the promises of God that say he withhold nothing that is for my good. That means the things that we call "good" and those that we may label as "bad." Both have to be for my good, God says so.
Wow! Do I walk in a way that demonstrates that I believe that?
Do I respond to the curve balls life throws at me with the confidence that is believing, "He leads me beside still water"?
Do I love others with the faith that says, "Don't grow weary in doing good because eventually a harvest will be reaped"?
God ALWAYS does what he says he will do.
He ALWAYS does right, he alone is righteous.
He KNOWS the hurt.
He KNOWS it's hard.
So, with confidence I draw near to his throne of grace in my time of need.
No need to "bust" just need to trust!
in his peace,
m
Too often I look in the mirror and wonder what on earth I am doing here because I certainly am not on the inside what most people get to see on the outside. There is a lot of sin and left over "natural man" that needs refining. This journey of sanctification is only too slow of a process.
I only wish that the inside was more Christ.
Recently I took a few pictures of trucks busting at the seams.
I have renamed this truck, "Me."
So where do I go from here.
To the cross.
To the promises of God that say he withhold nothing that is for my good. That means the things that we call "good" and those that we may label as "bad." Both have to be for my good, God says so.
Wow! Do I walk in a way that demonstrates that I believe that?
Do I respond to the curve balls life throws at me with the confidence that is believing, "He leads me beside still water"?
Do I love others with the faith that says, "Don't grow weary in doing good because eventually a harvest will be reaped"?
God ALWAYS does what he says he will do.
He ALWAYS does right, he alone is righteous.
He KNOWS the hurt.
He KNOWS it's hard.
So, with confidence I draw near to his throne of grace in my time of need.
No need to "bust" just need to trust!
in his peace,
m
