I haven't written in my blog in a really lonnngggg time... so I thought it's time. What has been happening in this wife of a pastor's life this year? Well....This year has been a challenging year...a hard one...and a long one. So much heartache that I can't even express. Each year as I grow older I find it doesn't get easier but rather really stretches me more and more... testing my patience...my endurance...my strength...my love for people...and my faith. Can the wife of a pastor have her faith tested and shaken? Can her love for people grow cold? Well...speaking from my own experiences and challenges...I would have to say...Yes...most definitely. Yet as I reflect...I am thankful to see that God, in my moments of faltering, hasn't given up on me...He hasn't left me alone...He is still refining me; pulling out what is not Him and putting in slowly but surely all that is. He is a good God. He has made my faith stronger with the testing. As I reflect, I realize how thankful I am that I am His and He is mine....that He is not against me but for me. ...That He has a plan and purpose specifically for my life...plans not to harm me, but to give me a hope and a future eternally with Him.
We sang the song, "Love Came Down," today in worship, and I have to say that I'm so thankful that love came down to rescue me and set me free from the law of sin and death. Although both things loom large in this world, they don't have power over me any longer...their sting is gone. As I reflect, I realize more and more how much I truly desire to just be with Him eternally..to put off all that this world offers and just pick up all He offers. I wait so expectantly for His return. I often envision what a day it will be when the struggles...the tests...the trials...the sadness and heartache...and all the frustrations of this world will be laid down at His feet replaced with the pure joy and worship to my Savior and Creator that will become my sole purpose and desire of my every breath and moment. I don't fear the things of this world any longer....The events taking place have been foretold...but so has His great victory; His victory which I not only participate in but is what I can hope and rejoice in.
I encourage my brothers and sisters in Christ...hang on...hang on through the heartache...hang on through the trials...He hasn't left you...He's perfecting you to one day stand in His presence and worship Him completely. His Spirit is training you how even now. 1 Peter 1:6-9 says, "Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls." I rejoice today because I am His...and He is mine, but I will share Him with all who desire to know Him. He is a good God...and He desires all of you...and all of me.
We sang the song, "Love Came Down," today in worship, and I have to say that I'm so thankful that love came down to rescue me and set me free from the law of sin and death. Although both things loom large in this world, they don't have power over me any longer...their sting is gone. As I reflect, I realize more and more how much I truly desire to just be with Him eternally..to put off all that this world offers and just pick up all He offers. I wait so expectantly for His return. I often envision what a day it will be when the struggles...the tests...the trials...the sadness and heartache...and all the frustrations of this world will be laid down at His feet replaced with the pure joy and worship to my Savior and Creator that will become my sole purpose and desire of my every breath and moment. I don't fear the things of this world any longer....The events taking place have been foretold...but so has His great victory; His victory which I not only participate in but is what I can hope and rejoice in.
I encourage my brothers and sisters in Christ...hang on...hang on through the heartache...hang on through the trials...He hasn't left you...He's perfecting you to one day stand in His presence and worship Him completely. His Spirit is training you how even now. 1 Peter 1:6-9 says, "Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls." I rejoice today because I am His...and He is mine, but I will share Him with all who desire to know Him. He is a good God...and He desires all of you...and all of me.
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