There are thick snowflakes coming down. It is a lazy Sunday morning. Zoom church with Covid. Pajamas still on.
But I am praying for you.
Because yesterday I was reminded again that God has called me to write this blog.
I listened to a podcast to get my mind in the right place when I was driving my Friday errands. The well known author said, “you have to remember that there are some people that will only be reached by you.”
“Nudge”, said Holy Spirit.
My goal is for this blog to be simple, succinct, practical, helpful.
My distractions come in the same basic flavors as always, what if’s of judgement and worry, the if-only regret of not using time “wisely” the pull of today’s emergencies versus the wisdom of obedience in preparation for tomorrow.
So I am trying, again, to write some of this. For you, my friend, in the hope that Holy Spirit (it’s a name not a title) will guide these words deep into your hearts.
For years I have prayed that this verse would be true of me.
“The Lord God hath given Me the tongue of the learned,
that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary.
He wakeneth morning by morning;
He wakeneth Mine ear to hear as the learned(one who is taught).”
Isaiah 50:4 KJV
I want to speak a word to you.
A word which ministers in the season of life you are..
A word which meets your weariness
And gives you strength.
I pray that word is like the literal angel food cake of I Kings 19:5-7.
Elijah had just prayed to die. He was pretty depressed, and anxious. Despairing even.
But God sent an angel, the angel fed him.
8 So he arose, and ate and drank;
and he went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights
as far as Horeb, the mountain of God.
I Kings 19:8 (KJV)
I pray these morsels of truth give you strength.
Strength to walk for forty days and forty nights.
To walk all the way to the mountain of God.
To find your way to Him.
Even right after you are despairing.
After the anxiety is drowning you.
After the depression has overwhelmed you.
When you just want it over. That you would instead be given strength to walk to God.
I pray these words go deep, they transform the way you think, the way you live, the way your mind processes.
I pray – for you.
