Add it to the list of things I said I’d never do.
This one’s right up there with homeschooling (check),
adopting (check),
and being so removed from popular culture that “jeggings”
seems like a typo.
Here’s the simple version of what God used to rearrange my
heart in these three areas:
…on homeschooling:
"You shall love the LORD your God with all your
heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I
command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to
your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you
walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise."
Deuteronomy 6:5-7
"Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,
making the best use of the time, because the days are evil."
Ephesians 5:15-16
...on adoption:
“But if anyone has the world's
goods and sees his brother in need,
yet closes his heart against him, how does
God's love abide in him?
Little
children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth."
1
John 3:16-18
"In you the orphan finds mercy."
Hosea
14:3
…on friendship with the world:
“Do you not know that
friendship with the world is enmity with God?
Therefore whoever wishes to be a
friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.”
James 4:4
"Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this:
to visit orphans and widows in their affliction,
AND
to keep oneself unstained from the world."
James 1:27
If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s never to say never as
I choose to follow Christ...I mean really
follow Him.
"'Come, follow me,' Jesus said."
Matthew 4:19
God’s Word is living and active and sharper than any double-edged
sword (Hebrews 4:12).
It grips lives, transforms hearts, and compels one to do
the kinds of things they said they’d never
do.
When God repeatedly prompts us to do something for His intended purpose,
to aim to His glory, to please Him,
our answer should be, "yes." Uninhibited,
self-removed, trusting Him even if it counters our own inclinations…"YES!"
So here’s to following You, Lord…
anywhere You lead…
even if
it means that I’m going to have a blog.
“Yet you do not know
what tomorrow will bring. What is your life?
For you are a mist that appears
for a little time and then vanishes.
Instead you ought to say, 'If the Lord
wills, we will live and do this or that.”'
James 4:14-15
