"Take a Picture"!

It’s day 24 of the Bible Recap. I’m still on track to read thru the Bible in 2023! We have been reading about Abraham who is one of my very favorite men. He had so much faith. He trusted the Lord like no other. I want to be more like him. I noticed several times in this last week’s readings that the Lord told him vaguely to keep going… as he did in Genesis 12 and 22 “Go from your country… to the land that I will show you…” and “on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you…”

This evening we were blessed to spend some time with our five year old granddaughter who consistently lightens the load, brightens the room and literally loves us no matter what we look, smell, or act like. She recently got her ears pierced and she got new earrings she wanted us to put in her ears tonight. The first ear hurt when we took it out and put a new one in, so the second ear took awhile to convince her that it would be okay to change out the earring…

After we removed the second earring she didn’t believe it was already out. She hadn’t feel any pain like the first ear. We showed her in the palm of our hand. We put it with the other one in a small ziplock bag to take back home. She insisted we take a picture on our phone of her vacant ear to prove to her that it wasn’t there. EVEN THOUGH we showed her the earring was clearly in the ziplock bag she simply couldn’t believe us! Not even in feeling her earlobe with her own fingers would she believe it was gone.

I chuckled and cried inside a little. Yep, I was completely caught - that’s exactly where I have been stuck in 2022… not trusting EVEN THOUGH the Lord continues to show me evidence of His goodness. Over and over and over again. He is so patient and kind. I am so much like a five year old... a preschooler. Lord, “give me faith to trust what you say… that You’re good and Your love is great! I’m broken inside, I give You my life. I need you to soften my heart and break me apart, I need You to pierce through the dark and cleanse every part of me. And all I am - I surrender” SONG

Thank you Lord for the gentle illustration you gave me this evening that I may never stop growing in the trust and faith departments. And that's okay. May I continue to learn, even if only slowly... from Abraham, the Bible and our grandkids just how amazing You are.

-Taken from LIFT Weekly E-mail.