Dear Hearts,
As most of you know I struggle with depression and shame, I have been this way most of my life then recently A wise and dear friend told me that God had told him to tell me (if that makes sense) to take my eyes off of John C. Mac Iver and put my eyes on Jesus. Now at first I dismissed this as another well meaning Christian trying to solve my problems. But then I tried it. When I would think to myself I want to die, I would say, No I want to live for Jesus. This made me feel a little better.
As I came to believe it, my circumstances didn’t change but my perspective did. God has been very present and good in my life over the past couple of months. My relationship with Him has been tremendous and yet Satan has wanted to have me back in the pit where I was. Hurricane Irene put a whole in my roof, and we praised the Lord, I broke the upstairs toilet, and we praised the Lord. Now I have been scheduled for a polygraph test this month. I am nervous but we all have to go through it so I will simply take the advice that my Dad gave me in:
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18:
Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.
I’m sure a lot of my new perspective comes from a book I have been reading titled, “The Pursuit of God” by A. W. Tozer. And I think what I am getting out of it can be summed up in this quote from chapter 8 which reads: "Let the seeking man reach a place where life and lips join to say continually “Be thou exalted,” and a thousand minor problems will be solved at once. His Christian life ceases to be the complicated thing it had been before and becomes the very essence of simplicity. By the exercise of his will he has set his course, and on that course he will stay as if guided by an automatic pilot. If blown off course for a moment by some adverse wind, he will surely return again as by a secret bent of the soul.”
Friends I know this seems simple but I can assure you, at least for now, it is changing me. Try it for yourself!
Well till next time, “Walk with the King today and be a blessing!