Rhonda is a wise woman. Her reflections here One of the quotes from that writing is “You will be remade by whatever you spend the majority of your hours on. ” I agree wholeheartedly, where we spend our thoughts, even light heartedly is what we reflect and become. How we interact with that which is before us makes us or is our legacy to show others.
The process of being “remade” is one I believe God continually presents throughout our lives. If we are listening to His whispers, if we are choosing to follow Him, we continually are remade into images that more resemble His work for our hearts, our minds, our actions.
How easy it is to become hardened. To stop the heart love for self and for others that allows joy to flow. To not face with confidence that God can and does move mountains, to begin putting answers into play instead of solutions. To lean on the past of our experience instead of the presence of God’s promises today and into the future of God’s promises
tomorrow.
Why are we, the Christians, not hopeful about today? Is not the Holy Spirit still living within us, comforting us, guiding us, ever present with us? Why are we, the believers, still working on doubting God? We are in the business of telling others why something can’t happen instead of listening and realizing that God is in the business of making things not only possible, but miracles truly happen every day. …big and small…whether its sending the workers or providing provision….it is my experience and my belief that God provides for His works…. Why are we so focused on the daunting challenge of the work in front of us instead of the love of God and God’s love for others that always powers and re energizes the work He gives us.
If I have heard one I have heard a hundred reasons in the last six weeks why this or that cannot be done, how something was tried and it failed, how others let folks down or the schedules conflict, how little people like you and me don’t do big things that way, let me tell you little people like you and me choose to do little things that make things happen, whether its the way we rear and instruct our children so that they become workers and providers, or the way we carry a meal to a hurting family, it is the little things we do that become the hands and works of God…..God uses our hands and hearts to do His work….and it becomes done…..Please Lord, help me to care only about your good pleasure in me, help me to be obedient to your instruction and directives and to look up when others look down at me….or they simply walk away from you….and forget who gave us the task and why it matters.
Father help me to love you with my obedience, love others with your love, and to each day realign my heart to your Word and the work you place before me. Help me to be hungry for your peace, your pleasure, your harvest to be the daily focus of my work.
James 1:22 tells us to not only hear God’s Word but to DO IT!
