A Moment To Reflect w/Testimony
Hi Family,
I know and fully believe that your life experiences, good and bad, are meant to be a testimony for someone else. Your testimony is not meant to be a moment for you to brag on what has happened to you. But to make a true point that will inspire someone. To be given at a time when it will be used to raise someone's faith. A moment where someone would benefit from it. A moment when someone can hear your testimony and it will push them to go farther than they would have been able to go without it.
Today, I have been in a constant moment of reflection of how good our God has been to me and my family. How He has truly kept us when we didn't deserve it. So many times God should have turned his back on us. And i'll only speak for myself. God should have turned His back on me so many years ago. College. High School.
So many times I did what I did and said what I said. And it was so disrespectful. Not only to myself, or my parents, or even my sister. But it was disrespectful to God. But yet, still, God saw and heard all of that, and He was still good to me.
When I cussed out that person, God heard it. I'm can imagine how it stung His ears. But He forgave me. When I was laid up with that dude and He was trying to tell me "baby you are too precious to Me for that. Get up and get out" and I wouldn't/couldn't hear it.
Even when I said so many times how I couldn't stand my family. He still forgave me. I bet He just said "Baby you don't mean it. I know your heart." But I was too arrogant and stubborn to hear it, much less listen.
As an adult, not too many years ago when my faith failed me when I had disappointment after disappointment after disappointment. And I said some of the ugliest things about God and then had to repent when I came to my senses. I should not have been forgiven for those things that I said. But somehow the repentance that I felt, my completely broken spirit, contrite heart, was enough for His mercy to fall on me and give me EVERYTHING that I was disappointed about. Literally Everything.
That was my moment of testimony to so many of you. To let you know that sometimes you are going to have disappointment over disappointment over disappointment. In your relationships, in your marriage, having children, raising the children, buying a home, financial stability, a new career, etc. But i'm proof to tell you, find where you may be in error, and repent for it. Just to be sure. Don't ever assume that you have it all together. And don't assume that you have done ALL He has asked you to. There is always something that you can do to become better.
My last word of advice, don't think for a moment that you can do "enough" to earn God's mercy or His grace. Not for a moment, can we ever be good enough for God. But in becoming a better person. A better son or daughter of God, we can earn His mercy and there you will find that you are in a good place. When you can find yourself giving your all to Him, Withholding Nothing, you will be right in the place where He loves to bless you.
Will you turn from you old ways? In control of everything? Nothing working out the way "you planned"? Maybe God has a different plan in store for you. One better than you can imagine. He is allowing you to get sick of doing it yourself. He is allowing you to try it your way. But know that when you get sick of you and you finally get to the end of your rope, know that He is right there waiting for you.
I Love You All!!! Be Blessed!!!!!
I know and fully believe that your life experiences, good and bad, are meant to be a testimony for someone else. Your testimony is not meant to be a moment for you to brag on what has happened to you. But to make a true point that will inspire someone. To be given at a time when it will be used to raise someone's faith. A moment where someone would benefit from it. A moment when someone can hear your testimony and it will push them to go farther than they would have been able to go without it.
Revelation 12:11
And they have defeated him by the blood of the Lamb and by their testimony.
Today, I have been in a constant moment of reflection of how good our God has been to me and my family. How He has truly kept us when we didn't deserve it. So many times God should have turned his back on us. And i'll only speak for myself. God should have turned His back on me so many years ago. College. High School.
So many times I did what I did and said what I said. And it was so disrespectful. Not only to myself, or my parents, or even my sister. But it was disrespectful to God. But yet, still, God saw and heard all of that, and He was still good to me.
When I cussed out that person, God heard it. I'm can imagine how it stung His ears. But He forgave me. When I was laid up with that dude and He was trying to tell me "baby you are too precious to Me for that. Get up and get out" and I wouldn't/couldn't hear it.
Even when I said so many times how I couldn't stand my family. He still forgave me. I bet He just said "Baby you don't mean it. I know your heart." But I was too arrogant and stubborn to hear it, much less listen.
As an adult, not too many years ago when my faith failed me when I had disappointment after disappointment after disappointment. And I said some of the ugliest things about God and then had to repent when I came to my senses. I should not have been forgiven for those things that I said. But somehow the repentance that I felt, my completely broken spirit, contrite heart, was enough for His mercy to fall on me and give me EVERYTHING that I was disappointed about. Literally Everything.
Psalm 51:17
The sacrifice you desire is a broken spirit. You will not reject a broken and repentant heart, O God.
That was my moment of testimony to so many of you. To let you know that sometimes you are going to have disappointment over disappointment over disappointment. In your relationships, in your marriage, having children, raising the children, buying a home, financial stability, a new career, etc. But i'm proof to tell you, find where you may be in error, and repent for it. Just to be sure. Don't ever assume that you have it all together. And don't assume that you have done ALL He has asked you to. There is always something that you can do to become better.
My last word of advice, don't think for a moment that you can do "enough" to earn God's mercy or His grace. Not for a moment, can we ever be good enough for God. But in becoming a better person. A better son or daughter of God, we can earn His mercy and there you will find that you are in a good place. When you can find yourself giving your all to Him, Withholding Nothing, you will be right in the place where He loves to bless you.
Will you turn from you old ways? In control of everything? Nothing working out the way "you planned"? Maybe God has a different plan in store for you. One better than you can imagine. He is allowing you to get sick of doing it yourself. He is allowing you to try it your way. But know that when you get sick of you and you finally get to the end of your rope, know that He is right there waiting for you.
2 Chronicles 7:14
Then if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and restore their land.
Isaiah 55:8-9
“My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the Lord.
“And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine.
For just as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so my ways are higher than your ways
and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.
I Love You All!!! Be Blessed!!!!!
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