When I first thought about doing up a post for the January 1 Crew Round Up. A word to live by for 2014 I thought it was about something else. But then I read what it was supposed to be about and said...oh.. that's easy. We are to "choose a word to represent your goals/hopes for the new year". All I can say is that God continues to teach me about trust. Trusting HIM. Not me, or my hubby, or my stuff, or my position in life, or my knowledge, or the folks about me, or my family or.... ANYTHING. I am merely to trust in him.
Sounds easy eh?
It isn't.
God says in Jeremiah "Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who depends on flesh for his strength and whose heart turns away from the LORD." I'm not much into being cursed...but consider what you do when you trust in something other than God in ANYTHING you do. Trust is something we are called to do in all things. We don't need more trust as trust isn't quantifiable. Trust merely is or it isn't. And if it isn't in God... then just who is is in?
Consider what Isaiah says "Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint." THIS is who I am to trust in. The one who doesn't falter or stumble or grow weary. The one who creates (as opposed to one who is created). Strength, power, renewer...this is the one I am to trust in. He is SO much more than I am or that anything else is.
Should be easy eh?
Yeah.. I've been learning over this past year how it isn't always so easy.
And this year I plan to keep learning more. :)
Perhaps we should learn together? What say you? Learn this trusting in God better with me??
Sounds easy eh?
It isn't.
God says in Jeremiah "Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who depends on flesh for his strength and whose heart turns away from the LORD." I'm not much into being cursed...but consider what you do when you trust in something other than God in ANYTHING you do. Trust is something we are called to do in all things. We don't need more trust as trust isn't quantifiable. Trust merely is or it isn't. And if it isn't in God... then just who is is in?
Consider what Isaiah says "Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint." THIS is who I am to trust in. The one who doesn't falter or stumble or grow weary. The one who creates (as opposed to one who is created). Strength, power, renewer...this is the one I am to trust in. He is SO much more than I am or that anything else is.
Should be easy eh?
Yeah.. I've been learning over this past year how it isn't always so easy.
And this year I plan to keep learning more. :)
Perhaps we should learn together? What say you? Learn this trusting in God better with me??
You can discover what other crew members are doing as their word for the new year. You can check those out here. Thanks! :)
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