Giving it to God
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I have used angst, fear, and anxiety as tools to motivate and propel me forward in my past. I have accomplished many things despite my fears.
Nonetheless, I am actively living some of what I would have previously called my biggest fears. I am so far from the structured and controlled life I had designed for myself.
I Surrender All
Am I unique? Absolutely, each person is unique by God’s design! Does my voice matter? Of course, every person’s voice matters! I have surrendered all that I have and everything that I am to God.
““For my thoughts are not your thoughts neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord.”
Know Your Role
There are few more unproductive things on a team than two people trying to play the same position simultaneously. This happens when a player doesn’t know his or her position, or distrusts another person to play their own position. God with his omniscience has a distinct advantage over me to navigate my life’s complexities. So, I have given it over to God.
“Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to your life? ”
Limitations
God has none.
““Where were you when I leave the earth’s foundation? Tell me, if you understand. Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it? On what were its footing set, or who laid its cornerstone – while the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy?”
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“In this world you will have trouble but take heart. I have overcome the world.”
Although my world appears to be in flames around me, I am having life-altering breakthrough moments, and I am witnessing God’s work in and through my life in extraordinary ways.
My life is full of twists and turns. I am trading angst for anticipation. In the natural, my problems appear large. My God is bigger. When I keep my focus on God and his promises, I am unflappable.
I am on the ultimate adventure. I am eager to see what God will do if I let him. God has given us free will. It is a choice.
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. ”
Stress Free Opt- in
When I start to feel the weight of my world, it is a reminder to give it to God.
“Are you weary, carrying a heavy burden? Then come to me. I will refresh your life, for I am your oasis. Simply join your life with mine. Learn my ways and you’ll discover that gentle, humble, easy to please. You will find refreshment and rest in me. For all that I require of you will be pleasant and easy to bear.”
I don’t have to carry this burden. Nope.
Sure don’t. I am always looking for ways to streamline my process, and I have hit something better than gold, GOD. I have struck into his riches and promises and have only begun to realize the abundance to which I have access but have not been using.
“Our present knowledge and our prophecies are but partial, but when love’s perfection arrives, the partial will fade away. When I was a child, I spoke about childish matters, for I saw things like a child and reasoned like a child. But the day came when I matured, and I set aside my childish ways.
For now we see but a faint reflection of riddles and mysteries though reflected in a mirror, but one day we will see face-to-face. My understanding is incomplete now, but one day I will understand everything, just as everything about me has been fully understood.”
Christ in Me
I look forward to the future with anticipation. Through this extreme season of change, I am learning to rejoice through the circumstances I find myself in.
“Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters whenever we face trials of many kinds because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete not lacking anything ”
“But he said to me my grace is sufficient for you for my power is made perfect in weakness. Therefore, I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why for Christ’s sake I delight in my weaknesses in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong. ”
“Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.””
This is gratitude with intention. I thank God for who I am, what I have access to through Christ, and everything He will do.
Love others
Instead of focusing on my problems, I am spending my life loving up on others. This blog is an extension of God’s love for me for you.
Writing, sharing my feelings, exposing my weaknesses, and needs are all foreign to me and would not happen without God's love for me. Even still, daily, I must recommit to this decision.
“We live by Faith, not by sight.”
So, I actively look past my own trials and give of myself to others.
“Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. ”
God has already shown up in wonderful and outrageously unexpected ways. God has only begun to show me the freedom that I have access to in his glorious riches through circumstances and people that have shown up in my life.
Me in Christ
I am a vibrant woman and a fierce competitor. I seek excellence in all things. I have lived my life with urgency and intention and continually refine my strategy.
I had to discover who I am.
I had to discover who I am in Christ. I had to learn more about God’s promises and what I had access to through Christ. I have placed all of my confidence in God to see us through.
I am winning the ultimate championship.
“...I press on to take hold for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, i do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead. I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.”
The last post I wrote was nearly two years ago. I have been grieving, slaying giants, raising champions, and growing in faith.