So tonight.
I was skimming through Isaiah hoping for something to catch my eye. I come across a highlighted verse and the word “steadfast” pops out at me. Ever since a couple months ago I have had an obsession for that word. I have no idea why. So, I decided to re-google the definition and google every possible place in the Bible where it mentions the word “steadfast.” What I found was “resolutely or dutifully firm and unwavering; determined in purpose; unchanging.“
Then when I was reading through the passages that include the word, every single person that demonstrated a steadfast love towards God was incredibly blessed. I guess the reason why I was so hit by it is because it just seems so powerful. So incredibly meaningful. Can you imagine if we did everything with a steadfastly? “Determined in purpose.” And I mean everything. If we prayed for people with a “determined purpose.” If we cared about our relationships, even with strangers with a “determined purpose.” Even if we went to work with a “determined purpose.”
Can you imagine how different our lives would be? The incredible blessings God would grant us? Not just what we would gain, but how we would change. Our hearts, our minds, the way people see us. That is my prayer and my goal for my life. To live with a determined purpose, and through everything stay unchanging in my love and seeking of God.
Day 1 of Summer and I’m already learning lessons.
I’m learning what it means to truly only have God and rely on Him. It’s so easy to say, oh yeah, I completely trust God. But if you’re in situations where you don’t need to .. things are going your way and you have friends to rely on.. it’s so much different.
Sometimes He needs to take us away from that and put us in a situation so we can see how off we are. How we truly and completely need only Him.
Day 1 and these thoughts are overwhelming my mind.
Where will I be 3 months from now?
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When I don’t measure up to much in this life, I’m a treasure in the arms of Christ.
Nehemiah’s Story
Nehemiah is a man of great strength. Of knowing what God wants him to do and pursuing that wholeheartedly, especially in the face of persecution.
Nehemiah stood strong in the Lord. He knew what God wanted him to do and did it with no doubt. When you are in God’s will and doing his commands, you will be persecuted. He was heavily mocked. But out of that came beauty. In Chapter 9 the Israelites confessed their sins. They received so much persecution because the devil wanted to stop the beautiful work God was doing.
In Chapter 9 is the first time they confess all their sins. What a significant moment. It finally finally connects. After years of false sorrow, begging God for forgiveness and constant sin, they realize their stubbornness.
Completely blown away.
The desires of our hearts that link up to God. How he gives them to us. How he enables us to run with those ideas and how He enhances them. How he seriously does turn the regrets to beauty and how nothing ever goes unnoticed, unimportant. I am at a loss for words due to Him. His timing is perfect. His soul is perfect. His mercy. His grace. His love. His heart.
Thank you God.
“For when I lose Thee for an hour, I lose.” - Frank Laubach (June 1930)
Oh, the power of our hands.
Leave them unmanaged and they become weapons:
clawing for power, strangling for survival, seducing for pleasure.
But manage them and our hands become instruments of grace - not just tools in teh hands of God, but God’s very hands.
Surrender them and these five-fingered appendages become the hands of God.
miami, florida.
devos on the beach.
Miami, Florida.
