Thank You

Praise God for safe travel, for meting people in the confines of airplanes, and for what He did in Sweden the last night I was there, and for what He has done since then!

That last night God shattered the falseness inside of me. He broke the illusion about my discernment. You see, sometimes I think I am "discerning" someone when in reality, I am judging them and erecting walls. I cannot live on the side of Hope while grumbling about people's imperfections. I would like to point out how my expression of the attack in my last post was poisoned with judgement. Thinly disguised to my eyes. But the Light exposes it as garbage. As I have said before: Sweden, you are not too hard for Him.

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews 11:11

As I write this post (which I have been trying to get out for some days now, but alas, staff training to be a resident assistant!) this verse from Hebrews floors me. Since I left Sweden I have heard from three people about how the writing in this blog has affected their lives. Praise God! He takes something like this blog and consecrates it for greater things! I mean, yes, I pray for God to take my desire to write and use it for His glory and by faith I know that He works through it...and then to be blessed doubly to hear from family and friends about God releasing encouragement and truth through this just blows my mind. Most of what goes on I do not see, and the evidence in any circumstance of God working in our lives is faith. We know that He is Who He said He is. He gives us faith which we could not have on our own, He gives us hope that we were without, and we have evidence because we lean wholly on Him in faith. We cannot see without faith. Without faith it is impossible to please God.

Faith is the umbilical cord, the substance that grafts us in to the vine of Christ. God is faithful! He is faithful to give us faith! All the promises, the covenant He has made with His people (with US!) will not fail. Numbers 23:19 comes to mind:

God is not man that He should lie,
not a son of man, that He should change His mind.
He has said, and will He not do it?
Or has he has spoken, and He will not fulfill it?

That is the level of steadfastness we have because we follow Him. I am incredibly excited for this fall. When I had before doubted whether I was really being a light for Christ, I have been assured. Where I had falsely walked thinking I walked with Him, He has rescued me.  Thank you, readers, for witnessing what He is doing in my heart. You are so loved. Really. Psalm 139