As I sit here pondering that word, what comes to mind Papa and Mama, is how God tells us to hide his word in our hearts.
To write them down in the hidden resources of our minds and hearts.
Hide his word.
And I think about that and it comes to mind about how out of our hearts comes our speech, and how our speech shows the state of our hearts and I'm humbled, and shamed and thinking to myself that I haven't hid enough of God's word in my heart.
Do you feel the same?
Do you hear what comes out of your mouths sometimes and wonder to yourself.. is that really me speaking? Am I really a child of God if I can say such things?
It's a struggle for me. Watching my tongue, The book of James speaks to this truth as well, tame the tongue because it steers the ship.
And it inspires me and perhaps it also inspires you to think on ways and find ways to hide God's word in your heart. To find ways to keep that tongue tamed.
What so often works well for me is to repeat a verse in my head until it turns into a song.
I recently read a blog post about a lady talking about purpose and how so often we as women misunderstand what our purpose truly is. I found it an interesting read and you can find it here.
It brought me back to a song I wrote once, but it felt too personal to share with the church I was part of at the time. It was based on Esther and the chorus went like this
"For such a time as this
for such a time as this
what purpose have for me to do?
For such a time as this
For such a time as this
Oh Lord what would you have me do?
With short verses with lines such as this
"Would you have me read the bible, to the shut in down the street?
Would have me give a lonely child something good to eat?
It was a song filled with questions and wonderings about what the Lord God would have of me, and a slowly dawning realization that as long as I continue to hide God's word in my heart and follow his guidance (as found in scripture) that I would be doing what he wants me to do "For such a time as this".
So what think you? What questions do you ask of God about his purpose for your life? How are you hiding God's word in your heart to help you with that?