Memory Verse #4

To me, winter seems like it should be a slow time of year. I don't know, perhaps the fact that all of nature slows down...trees grow more slowly, bears hibernate, plants are no longer blooming. This winter has not felt slow. At all. On one hand it's nice because I don't feel like the snow and cold is dragging on. {I've really enjoyed the beauty of our winter weather!} But on the other hand, our weeks are filling up at a feverish pace and just when we get one "really busy" week past us and think the next one will be slower, we find out that the next week has just as much awaiting us. Nevertheless, we can only manage one day at a time. And I am really trying to do that~just focus on what needs to be done today...by breakfast...by lunch...by dinner...by bedtime. Our faithful God continues to guide and things are getting done. Perhaps not on my lightning speed timetable, but we haven't starved and bills haven't been late.

My verse for this season does not mirror the busyness of it, but it calms my spirit. Two of the things I pray for God to grow in me most often are wisdom and discernment. May I grow more in these ways...

"But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, accommodating, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and not hypocritical."
James 3:17 The NET Bible

February 1st Scripture Memory

After studying Beth Moore's "When Godly People do Ungodly Things" with two of my closest girlfriends last summer, I knew this was a verse I would commit to memory, I just didn't know when. I believe it is critical that we remember...once we or someone else has fallen, our Creator God wants us to run back to Him, not hide from Him. He works marvels with the disgusting stuff we choose to bring into the light. The enemy can no longer hold us hostage by our sin when we give it to our Father and choose to believe His words of truth instead. He is right there waiting for you.

I Samuel 12:20-25 TNIV
“Do not be afraid,” Samuel replied. “You have done all this evil; yet do not turn away from the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart. Do not turn away after useless idols. They can do you no good, nor can they rescue you, because they are useless. For the sake of His great Name the LORD will not reject His people, because the LORD was pleased to make you His own. As for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the LORD by failing to pray for you. And I will teach you the way that is good and right. But be sure to fear the LORD and serve Him faithfully with all your heart; consider what great things He has done for you. Yet if you persist in doing evil, both you and your king will perish.”