I was in a pretty poopy, horrible mood the moment I woke up. Not usually how my mornings are. Usually I am filled with Joy and Thanksgiving to the Lord. Today was different and I didn’t like it at all. I was so angry. I was dwelling in bitterness and getting myself NO WHERE FAST!!! I decided that reading the Word would be a great idea-it so was… The Lord is so good at providing everything we need. From the little things to the ginormous things! I also read out of My Utmost for His Highest. That was also a great idea. This is the reading for today:

“Yes-But…!”

“Lord, I will follow You, but…” (Luke 9:61)

“Suppose God tells you to do something that is an enormous test of your common sens, totally going against it. What will you do? Will you hold back? If you get into the habit of doing something physically, you will do it every time you are tested until you break the habit through sheer determination. And the same is true spiritually. Again and again you will come right up to what Jesus wants, but every time you will turn back at the true point of testing,until you are determined to abandon yourself to God in total surrender. Yet we tend to say, “Yes, but-suppose I do obey God in this matter, what about…?” Or we say, “Yes, I will obey God if what He asks of me doesn’t go against my common sense, but don’t ask me to take a step in the dark.”
“Jesus Christ demands the same unrestrained, adventurous spirit in those who have placed their trust in Him that the natural man exhibits. If a person is every going to do anything worthwhile, there will be times when he must risk everything by his leap in the dark. In the spiritual realm, Jesus Christ demands that you risk everything you hold on to or believe through common sense, and leap by faith into what He says. Once you obey, you will immediately find that what He says is as solidly consistent as common sense.”
“By the test of common sense, Jesus Christ’s statements may seem mad, but when you test them y the trial of faith, your findings will fill your spirit with the awesome fact that they are the very words of God. Trust completely in God, and when He brings you to a new opportunity of adventure, offering it to you, see that you take it. We act like pagans in a crisis-only one out of an entire crowd is daring enough to invest his faith in the character of God.”

Reading that was like a nice little slap in the face ridding me of my sin-THANK YOU LORD! I always find myself going back to my old ways of bitterness, hatred, and sin. The Lord has not called me to live in the flesh in which I once walked, but in His ways-the good works that he created beforehand that I should walk in them (Ephesians 2:10). After I got done reading that, I began to get ready. Beauty for Ashes came on by Shane and Shane. Another little slap in the face, but SUCH an encouragement. This song just repeats itself over and over again and this is exactly what I needed to have repeated over and over again this morning.

“Beauty for ashes
A garment of praise for my heaviness
Beauty for ashes
Take this heart of stone and make it Yours, Yours

I delight myself in the Richest of Fare
Trading all that I’ve had for all that is better
A garment of praise for my heaviness
You are the greatest taste
You’re the richest of fair.”

Thank you, Lord.


To Be Continued… =)