Glory in Him: Ponderings

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Ponderings

I've been pondering the thoughts of the posts of October 5 & 6. The Lord normally has me chew on thoughts and brings other Scriptures or quotes to bring home the point. I just started reading this book called "Full Life in Christ" by Andrew Murray (I love Andrew Murray's writings). The chapter is titled He Himself Calls Us - I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.-John 13:15. At the end of each chapter Andrew Murray ends it with a prayer and this prayer so touched my heart as it so relates to my previous posts (God is so thorough). quote---Gracious Lord, what can I now do but praise and pray? My heart feels overwhelmed with this wondrous offer that You will reveal all Your love and power in me if I will yield myself to let it flow through me to others. Though with fear and trembling, yet in deep, grateful adoration, I accept the offer with joy and confidence, and say, "Here I am. Show me how much You love me, and I will show it to others by loving them in the same way.' And that I may be able to do this, blessed Lord, grant me these two things. Grant me, by Your Holy Spirit, a clear insight into Your love for me so that I may know how You love me, how Your love for me is Your delight and blessedness, how in that love You give Yourself so completely to me so that You are indeed mine to do for me all I need. Grant this, Lord, and I will know how to love and live for others, even as You love and live for me. And then, grant me to see, as often as I feel how little love I have, that it is not with the love of my little heart, but with Your love shed abroad in me, that I have to fulfill the command of loving like You. Am I not Your branch, O my heavenly Vine? It is the fullness of Your life and love that flows through me in love and blessing to those around me. It is Your Spirit that, at the same moment, reveals what You are to me and strengthens me for what I am to be to others in Your name. In this faith, I dare to say, "Amen, Lord. Even as You do to me, I will also do to others."---end quote God is so gracious to us that even when He calls me to a task that to me is so incredibly difficult, He equips me and empowers me to do it. So often, I kick against that which He has placed before me. Yet He calls me to be hidden in Him and filled by Him. God of wonder how I praise you!!!

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Poems

From http://www.devotions.com/ (author unknown)
It’s sometimes very difficult for us to understand the wisdom and the love behind the things that God has planned.

But we wouldn’t have the rainbow if we didn’t have the rain; We wouldn’t know the pleasure if we never tasted pain.

We wouldn’t love the sunrise if we hadn’t felt the night; And we wouldn’t know our weakness if we hadn’t sensed God’s might.

We couldn’t have the springtime or the yellow daffodil if we hadn’t experienced the winter’s frosty chill.

And though the brilliant sunshine is something God has made. He knew too much could parch our souls so He created shade.

So God’s given us a balance: enough joys to keep us glad, enough tears to keep us humble, enough good to balance bad.

And if you’ll trust in Him you’ll see though yesterday brought sorrow, the clouds will part and dawn will bring a happier tomorrow.

E-mailed by a Friend (author unknown)
"THE MOST BEAUTIFUL RAINBOW"
As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn't supposed to ever let you down probably will. You will have your heart broken probably more than once and it's harder every time. You'll break hearts too, so remember how it felt when yours was broken. You'll fight with your best friend. You'll blame a new love for things an old one did. You'll cry because time is passing too fast, and you'll eventually lose someone you love. So take too many pictures, laugh too much, and love like you've never been hurt because every sixty seconds you spend upset is a minute of happiness you'll never get back. Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin.