1/1/08
Welcome to the New Every Morning Blog
A place where you can share what the Lord has been teaching you or any insights you are getting from the New Every Morning posts.
Our God is an awesome God. Even when He brings rain into our lives, the sun always follows the rain. He is gracious to walk with us through our trials…we are never alone. And He teaches us so richly as we daily bear our burdens.
How has God taught you through your trials? For me, He taught me patience and to wait on His will for my life. His will is always better than our wills. We think we know what will make us happy and sometimes God says no. I learned to trust him and use the “waiting” time to be an ambassador for him. And He did bless that time. He did use me to minister to people who I would not have been able to if I was ministering to a husband and a family. And now, He has blessed me with a new husband, Dick, and now we are ministering side by side as we daily try to show the world the Savior we serve.
I believe we go through different seasons in our lives and God has a purpose for each of those seasons. Use them wisely, my friends. Learn from them and then go and share with others what you have learned. Tell how God was gracious and merciful to you even in the valley.
All For Him,
Donna
Welcome to the New Every Morning Blog
A place where you can share what the Lord has been teaching you or any insights you are getting from the New Every Morning posts.
Our God is an awesome God. Even when He brings rain into our lives, the sun always follows the rain. He is gracious to walk with us through our trials…we are never alone. And He teaches us so richly as we daily bear our burdens.
How has God taught you through your trials? For me, He taught me patience and to wait on His will for my life. His will is always better than our wills. We think we know what will make us happy and sometimes God says no. I learned to trust him and use the “waiting” time to be an ambassador for him. And He did bless that time. He did use me to minister to people who I would not have been able to if I was ministering to a husband and a family. And now, He has blessed me with a new husband, Dick, and now we are ministering side by side as we daily try to show the world the Savior we serve.
I believe we go through different seasons in our lives and God has a purpose for each of those seasons. Use them wisely, my friends. Learn from them and then go and share with others what you have learned. Tell how God was gracious and merciful to you even in the valley.
All For Him,
Donna
2 comments:
Regarding today's devotion... Romans 12:14 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. This was a "right in your face" moment for me! Yes natural human response is to be bitter and resentful and isn't that just what the enemy wants us to do so that way we exhaust our energy and time on the "situation" or "individual(s)" and get our eyes off of HIM and the task(s) HE has mapped out for us and so than we are ineffective!! I'm so thankful that God is an ON TIME GOD!!
I agree that God often indeed teaches us most during storms in life, as well as when the clouds part and the sun blazes forth afterward. In the past year, in those times, I have been learning:
- Though God is my Lord and Savior, to relate more and more, and relax more and more, in His being my Father.
- To live, even as a Christian, in the daily truth and the good of the Gospel. It is for all of life.
- To look at people not just as a means to an end, but as an end in themselves. Loving others means seeing them more as Christ does and seeking their greatest well-being (spiritual, mental, emotional, physical).
- That God may be speaking to us more than we realize, and we are to seek Him, listen and look.
Soli Deo Gloria!
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