The Seven Evans
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Today...the pinpoint
What shall it bring...what shall it be remembered for.
I hope today will be remembered for the point at which I decided to be different. To remember what I was created for. Not to change the place at which I am standing in this life but to walk it out in a faith... not faltering.
I am moved to tears at this blog I have just read. http://www.aholyexperience.com/2010/02/one-thing-you-may-have-long-forgotten.html
Brought to the realization once again that I am not doing this life the way I wanted to...the way my high ideals once propelled me. I have settled into myself. Stopped striving to add to the faith.
Ann Voscamp ended her blog with this statement....
"The Bible tells us that we are God's masterpieces (poiema in Greek); not only creatures, but His creations, His poems (Eph 2:10). We are living epistles (2 Cor 3:3). And so, our lives are meant to be listened to, because it is God who is speaking into and out of and through the symphony of the years, and the masterpiece of a lifetime." ~Michael Card
To be perfectly honest so many times in the years since I was married I have come back to this place and wanted change...wanted to break out of the cocoon but stopped at the struggle to spread the wings...maybe really even stopped before I got into the cocoon for the change to take place. I, being the analyzer that I am, try to pinpoint what made me stop being that young girl who saw the potential only God could have for me. I have tried to blame circumstances...my husband...being a mother...oh how wrong I have been. I must take responsibility. I have not walked away from God. I have faith in Him. Most often I have faith that the Lord will take care of the really big things...like providing for us financially when it just doesn't make sense...moving up here to this area to minister when it doesn't really make sense to leave the the support system we had when there was a new baby on the way. What trips me up is the daily moment by moment things...stuff I think God doesn't really need to worry about. Stuff I should be able to handle. I can only laugh at myself.
I haven't been adding to my faith like it says to in 2 Peter 1.
3His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, 4by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire. 5For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, 6and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, 7and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. 8For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9For whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins. 10Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall. 11For in this way there will be richly provided for you an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
12Therefore I intend always to remind you of these qualities, though you know them and are established in the truth that you have.
So I type this at almost midnight not really so anyone else will read it but that I will have a point in time...a place to go back to and remind myself this is when I said it was no longer acceptable to be nearsighted and blind. It is now time to once again add to my faith. I shall not forget.
I hope today will be remembered for the point at which I decided to be different. To remember what I was created for. Not to change the place at which I am standing in this life but to walk it out in a faith... not faltering.
I am moved to tears at this blog I have just read. http://www.aholyexperience.com/2010/02/one-thing-you-may-have-long-forgotten.html
Brought to the realization once again that I am not doing this life the way I wanted to...the way my high ideals once propelled me. I have settled into myself. Stopped striving to add to the faith.
Ann Voscamp ended her blog with this statement....
"The Bible tells us that we are God's masterpieces (poiema in Greek); not only creatures, but His creations, His poems (Eph 2:10). We are living epistles (2 Cor 3:3). And so, our lives are meant to be listened to, because it is God who is speaking into and out of and through the symphony of the years, and the masterpiece of a lifetime." ~Michael Card
To be perfectly honest so many times in the years since I was married I have come back to this place and wanted change...wanted to break out of the cocoon but stopped at the struggle to spread the wings...maybe really even stopped before I got into the cocoon for the change to take place. I, being the analyzer that I am, try to pinpoint what made me stop being that young girl who saw the potential only God could have for me. I have tried to blame circumstances...my husband...being a mother...oh how wrong I have been. I must take responsibility. I have not walked away from God. I have faith in Him. Most often I have faith that the Lord will take care of the really big things...like providing for us financially when it just doesn't make sense...moving up here to this area to minister when it doesn't really make sense to leave the the support system we had when there was a new baby on the way. What trips me up is the daily moment by moment things...stuff I think God doesn't really need to worry about. Stuff I should be able to handle. I can only laugh at myself.
I haven't been adding to my faith like it says to in 2 Peter 1.
3His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, 4by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire. 5For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, 6and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, 7and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. 8For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9For whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins. 10Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall. 11For in this way there will be richly provided for you an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
12Therefore I intend always to remind you of these qualities, though you know them and are established in the truth that you have.
So I type this at almost midnight not really so anyone else will read it but that I will have a point in time...a place to go back to and remind myself this is when I said it was no longer acceptable to be nearsighted and blind. It is now time to once again add to my faith. I shall not forget.
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