“For the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand. He knows your trudging through this great wilderness. These forty years the LORD your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing.” Deut. 2:7This verse gave me such encouragement. The Lord KNOWS my trudging. Sometimes life seems so routine, so mundane, so much of the same thing. Sometimes my trudging is a result of living selfishly, sometimes a result of mixed up priorities. Sometimes my trudging is a result of a lack of patience. I stomp and scuffle more than I walk upright. But He knows my every weakness. He has been in the same situations. Sometimes I feel alone or empty in such a great wilderness. It seems barren, bleak and foreboding when I think about the evils that roam this world. But I am not alone in this wilderness. The LORD my God has been with me. And I have lacked nothing. I so often forget an attitude of thankfulness for all the blessings He has given me. When I am thankful, I am humbled, unable to show my gratitude for the immense depth His love has gone to reach me. I know that whatever comes ahead, my GOD is with me. I have lacked nothing in the past and I will lack nothing in the future. His rod and His staff they comfort me.
These verses, also in Deuteronomy (1:29-31), comfort me as I sally forth:
‘Do not be terrified, or afraid of them. The LORD your God, who goes before you, He will fight for you, according to all He did for you in Egypt before your eyes, and in the wilderness where you saw how the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, in all the way that you went until you came to this place.’The Lord carries me, gently, protectively. I am not alone. My trudging is not burdensome. The Lord picks me up as a small child, and all the way He leads me.
Laura,
ReplyDeleteThank you SO much for sharing this! It was very encouraging to me right now. Life is so busy that sometimes it's hard to just slow down and rest, like Mary instead of Martha. =) We are supposed to enjoy God and delight in Him instead of worrying about the future, and I need to be reminded of that more often!
I too try to avoid Bible-reading schedules because of their tendancy to make me read just to catch up or stay on schedule...and then I miss the whole point. I would love to read the whole Bible in a year, but I'm afraid I would just read it to read it and not get anything from it! I've tried it in the past but never made it all the way through. Maybe I'll try it again next year...maybe I'll have enough patience by then, I don't know. =)
And this is off-topic, but I was so disappointed to miss choir the week before last! (I had a cold and almost lost my voice, so I didn't really have a choice.) Last Thursday we only had time to practice Scene 1, but it was great! The kids all knew where they were supposed to be and everything. Thanks for doing that! It sure made my job easier! I just got to sit back and watch it happen. =)
Wow...that was a really long comment...sorry about that! See you tomorrow.
Love in Christ,
Annie
I am still soo excited about this reading schedule and look forward to sharing notes about readings with you :) xoxo
ReplyDeleteThanks!! Annie, this is the first time that I've stuck to a year-long reading plan. I usually give up about this time. I have found it to be very beneficial though, and although there are some days I feel like I'm trying to catch up, the Lord has been showing me some really good stuff! Oh, and it was so fun working with the kids the other day! It's going to be a stellar play, you wrote some great stuff there!! Can't wait to see the finished product!! :)
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