Nothing but the Truth

There are times when a normal event going on in your body suddenly alters and you are no longer in the normal range but things are slightly off. You don't realize it right away, it slowly sneaks up on your and then you realize that the changes have been occuring for a while, but you just figured that was normal. Then all of a sudden you realize that this sudden change that was slow for you to realize is possibly the sign of something more serious.

You simply begin to realize it could be more and then you put off investigating it. You may try to remember something about it, even write it down, but then you think it could be something serious or worse yet, you can make an appointment wiht your doctor to check on this only to be told that it is normal for someone your age and not to worry about it.

So you put it off for a bit more time. Then it becomes more noticable, annoying, in the way, inconvenient and so on. You decide to make an appointment. You go to the appointment only to realize that if you would have come in several months sooner it could have been taiken care of, no problem.

But here you are, still suffering with it and still inconvenienced by it and the process that is long and filled with hurry up and wait is still having you hurry up and wait. IT is something that is common in people your age, however, it doesn't need to continue for long lenghts of time.

This is much like our relationship with our God. We know there is something wrong, and instead of bringing it out in the open, it is kept hidden in your heart and it continues to cause you pain. It continues until you want ot scream out, "Just take it away God!" But God won't just take it away. Not until you bring it to God and hand it over, completely over to God. And like the medical process that often takes placed later in the process, it is a hurry up and wait. You have to hurry up and get rid of it for God to bring forth the resolution we hope for in our lives. We have to wait upon his time, we have to wait till he determines "it is time".

Even Jesus had to wait for God's plan unfold. He had no more control than we do in his situation. I am certain Jesus would have loved to say, "Ok God, I will die on the cross, but get it done quickly. The beatings, the walk with the cross on my shoulders is overrated. Just have them arrest me and then up I go on the cross. Quick as can be". But God's plans were different from our plans, they were different from Jesus's plans. Jesus said to God on the cross 'why have you forsaken me'. I am sure Jesus would have loved to pass on over the feeling of despair, guilt, sin, shame that our sins caused him. But without Jesus feeling what he felt, would the pure satisfaction of his becoming a risenSavior mean as much to us, to him, to his heavenly father.

Sometimes there is nothing better than having the truth. But the truth hurts. It hurts to know that we could have saved yourself months of pain, aggrevation and inconvenience if we would have just asked ourselves the right question about our medical issues. Just like we could have been saved years of pain if we would have asked what our real sin is we needed to repent of and ask for help for from God. If we would have been willing to share wiht God nothing but the truth.

Struggling to become a lady of Proverbs 31
Dannett

A Child's Success, A Parents Pride

How much do we have to do with our child's success in life? I mean we teach them to do many different things, we teach them right from wrong, we teach them to read and we teach them to cook, clean and work with money. We teach them responsibility, accountability, and we teach them to be nice. But how much do we have to do with our child's success in life?

Our children have to find their own way in life but as we instruct them to be a certain way, do they follow that way?

I began their school careers telling them that they needed to set aside time to study each day and find a great learning environment in which to study. They currently don't have those study habits. They do have very good grades, are very intelligent, but their success isn't because I enforced the rules of when and where to study. Their success in school is because I set the groundwork and I let them (to some extent) feel the responsibility of their choices.

I know for certain that I can not take credit for their success, I can only say that I have tried to do all that I can do. It is ultimately up to them to take what was given to them and make something of their lives.

I feel comfortable with this as I know this is how things are suppose to be done. How? This is how God has done it with me. He has taken many different routes to share with me what I need to know and what I need to be doing. It is up to me to bring into fruition what God wants me to do, what I am suppose to do, or what needs to be done.

It is up to me to accept responsibility for what I do with the information and whether or not I am able to follow through with what God wants me to do. Have you? Have you accepted responsibility for what you do? Have you accepted responsibility for what we need to do with the information that God has given to us? If not, when?

Struggling to become a Lady of Proverbs 31
Dannett