As some of you may know, I've spent the better part of last
week battling the flu, AGAIN, I found out that this year's flu vaccine was only
23% effective and I work with a very large homeless population so I'm grateful
it was only a mild case of the flu. Fear not, I wasn't just sitting idle during
my down time: I came up with the brilliant idea to set up a website to provide
motivational messages for people who just like to start off their day with a
bit of positivity. I launch the site today - I had a few technical difficulties
but I got it up and running none the less. I'm praying that God will cause the
site to increase.
I finished my T.D Jakes book (still on point for my new
year's list - 1 book a month; I'm actually half way through my second book). I
can't recommend the book enough Can You
Stand To Be Blessed - read it!
My thoughts today are about quitting, giving up, throwing in
the towel...whatever you want to call it. I see it as a MAJOR character defect
rooted in extreme selfishness. Now, on some points we know what we want; that's
a fair assessment, but is our knowing in line with God's plan and purpose or is
our knowing rooted in our emotions and desire for immediate gratification?
Psalm 40:1-17 ESV To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. I waited
patiently for the Lord; he inclined to me and heard my cry. He drew me up
from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock,
making my steps secure. He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our
God. Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the Lord. Blessed is
the man who makes the Lord his trust, who does not turn to the proud,
to those who go astray after a lie! You have multiplied, O Lord my
God, your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us; none can compare with
you! I will proclaim and tell of them, yet they are more than can be told. ...
Habakkuk 2:1-3 ESV I will take my stand at my watchpost and
station myself on the tower, and look out to see what he will say to me, and
what I will answer concerning my complaint. And the Lord answered me:
“Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it. For
still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end—it will not
lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay.
Isaiah 40:31 ESV But they who wait for the Lord shall
renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall
run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
Psalm 27:13-14 ESV I believe that I shall look upon the goodness
of the Lord in the land of the living! Wait for the Lord; be
strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord!
Just about every instruction from God to man has been to watch
and wait. If one of God's people is in immediate danger He moves but for the
most part it's us operating on instruction and direction from God.
Please not that not one time in any of my studies, I could
be wrong but I don't believe it's the case, did God ask anyone how he/she felt
about what He was asking/telling them. Not one time did He ask what anyone thought...
Bottom line, you either have the faith big and strong enough
to trust God or you don't. Just know, every time we add to instruction or
change instruction we are blocking a blessing. Just know, every time we add to instruction or change
direction we are showing disrespect to God....funny thing is, God is going to
get His work done, we have the choice to do it out of love and just enjoy the
goodness of God or we can be made to do it and grumble and stumble through the
process and miss out; only to have to repeat the process at some other point in
life until we get the lesson.
Where did we every get the notion that everything is
supposed to feel good and that we're supposed to like it? If we were talking to
a child with this mindset we would call them several different kinds of
"spoiled." What do you think God sees when we act this way?
Romans 8:28 says - 28 And
we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him,
who have been called according to his purpose.
Whose purpose are you operating on? Are you quitting just
short of your promise just because "it" doesn't look or feel like
what you've planned?
How ya livin'?!
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