Beautiful Focus

Beautiful Focus!

Reach deep, deep, deep down in that heart of yours and you find that there is just a small, tiny, little piece that you cannot seem to grab, but you know it's there. That tiny, mini, small, bit that you cannot touch is the part that some days you don't know is there, but the Lord does. With the process of pulling back the mask slowly has the Lord crept in to touch that small piece that I have been holding on to. The Lord has been revealing the inner most hurts, shame, pain and letting me deal with it one day at a time. As He brings each issue to the light I hear a light whisper that says "My daughter I am with you always and I will be your leaning post when you feel you can no longer stand."

Praising in the storms and the battles of this life has been the hardest, but greatest struggle of all. Rejoice in the Lord always again I say Rejoice. I didn't know this until recently, but you may not have a smile on your face and still be joyful at heart. Its a hard battle to be willing to let the Lord change you because when doing it on your on you never have to worry about the little pieces you don't remember you have tucked away to deal with on another. The Lord deals with those pieces first and even if you can see the molding taking place when the Lord works He works hard.

Over these weeks that the Lord has really been picking these issues up and making me deal with them because finally I asked Him to I have seen alot. I am a selfish person, but aren't we all. I do tons of "good things"  though my heart isn't always in the game but my eyes are look in the crowd waiting for them to cheer me on.  I have been able to love people in a new light not for any reason but because I should love them. My gift of encouragement has been shine brightly because it is not longer me trying so hard to do it on my own.

Things have not been easy, but the Lord has provided some awesome friend who stuck by even on my crazy days. The other day the Lord blesses me with time to sit and chat with a wise friend of mine and she shared something that very much has changed my life. Ex 14:14 "The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.”

On those days that you are spent and you have nothing left to pour out and give it is ok to just sit and be still. The Lord has already fought and won the battle and goes before us in each and every struggle. We have not lost we just did not win in the way we thought it should have gone. Praise be to God who knows all things, see all things and takes care of everything under the heavens.