~Good Morning~

Bible Study was so good last night. Beth Moore can speak to me sometimes as though she actually knows me and knows exactly what I am needing to hear.
I had prayed awhile back for God to place with in me a desire for His Word. A desire that would be so strong that I honestly couldn't wait for my time with Him. Well, He did just that, but of course Satan didn't want that.
I found that as I grew even closer to Him that I would have more and more trials that I was faced with.
Then a friend of mine called a couple of days ago with some of the same issues. I was so glad to not be alone in this...to be able to share with someone the frustrations of trying to walk my walk and dodge the daggers from the enemy. Praise God that I have too many blessings to count right now. You have to look at it that way...truly looking at every moment in the day that you can be grateful to God for blessing you with even patience when dealing with a 2 1/2 yr old or two. When you look at our sole purpose in life....it is to live and walk in His light it puts so many things in to perspective....It is not always easy, but sometimes we get so wrapped up in the everyday motions of life that we forget our purpose.
I haven't always been very clear about what my purpose was, but then realized that it can change daily.
Beth said last night something that was completely true for me "Someday God is going to tell us(as she looked at her watch) that it is time to get off". Meaning of course, that if you are wasting all of your time here on earth looking for the moment when something is going to be over you are going to miss all of the opportunities to do what He has planned for you. It made total sense to me. I hope that I parphrased it well so that each of you could get the point as well.
I don't want to always be looking so far ahead that I miss what is going on right now. Miss the blessing that He constantly pours on me. Also, I don't want to be so consumed with everything that I don't have that I am not grateful and doing the most with what I do have.
We always tend to just remember the negative and forget all of the postive things that are happening in our lives. Satan is so sneaky in being able to deceive us; making us doubt & stumble.
Praise God that we have his Grace and the Holy Spirit within us to realize this foolishness.
This was kinda long, but what I felt this morning....I hope that you all have a wonderful day!~!
~r