Autumn McKenzie

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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.

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.

Limitations

God has none.  

Exclusive Access

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.

Stress Free Opt- in

When I start to feel the weight of my world, it is a reminder to give it to God.

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.  

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.  

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.

So, I actively look past my own trials and give of myself to others.  


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.



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