Learning

Just because I say that I have learned from my past does not always mean I walk in the ways I have learned. It is easy to think that I know what it is like and how to apply things to my life, but then I realize that I have messed up. That in order to save a flower, I must be willing to water it. Watering does not just take saying kind things, but also living in the words I may type. It is being the same person no matter how hard it is.

We are reactionary, it is so easy to look at something and instead of walking away from it like I should do, I will react. That reaction causes a chain reaction of events and all that I could have avoided if I only took the things I talk about in here to heart. Sometimes the road from the head to the heart are the longest, it is being willing to stick it out, not giving up and no matter how it may look, stop using your human eyes to see it. I use my human eyes and I fail.

We are constantly learning and area's that we thought we have conquered will come back to make sure we have learned them, sometimes it is a OK, but other times I fail, in those times it is so hard to admit my failures, but through admitting my struggles, is where I realize I need to grow more. Don't be afraid to go back to what you have learned and read them over again. It takes time, but the time is worth it.

I am still learning and the lessons get harder and harder, but the results are out of this world. Don't be afraid to admit struggles, don't hide behind being imperfect, because God is doing a deeper work in each of us and His ways are much higher then ours.

To change I must be willing to allow God to cook the impurities out of me, they aren't all gone and He continues to turn up the heat. He continues to make me who I am and no matter what, I want to mirror Him and I don't want it just to be in words.

Searching

If you are searching for anything, it is easy to miss what is right in front of you. Have you ever lost your keys, the more you look for them, the more irritated you get, but when you finally come to the realization that they are only keys, you have spent a lot of time and energy getting upset. If you had just said Lord help me find the keys, you change your focus from the keys, to God. Once the perspective has changed, your keys for some reason are right in front of you and you are able to see them. Have you ever thought, man I could have sworn I already looked there... I don't know if that is just me, but I know I have had that happen more times then I would care to admit.

When you are lost, stop looking for the right way and start looking God's way, He will guide you, but when you are looking through your eyes you will only see the fact that you can't see straight, that you can't find your way, because you can't. Are you exhausted, try God, He is tireless and limitless, allow Him to change your perspective.

I know it is easy to try to make it up the mountain on my own and when hard times come, I want to do it, but I fail time and time again and when I finally allow God, I have tired myself out doing it my way, instead of doing it His way. His way is much better then my way, in fact the bible verse that comes to mind is Isaiah 40:30-31 "Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; 31 but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint." Are you tired of getting nowhere on your own? Try God's way, His promises hold true.

Where do you find yourself today? Are you tired and weary? Change your perspective from Horizontal to Vertical, look to God, He will give you what you search for. The song that came to mind today:
Great is Thy Faithfulness
1 

“Great is Thy faithfulness,” O God my Father,
There is no shadow of turning with Thee;
Thou changest not, Thy compassions, they fail not
As Thou hast been Thou forever wilt be.
“Great is Thy faithfulness!” “Great is Thy faithfulness!”
Morning by morning new mercies I see;
All I have needed Thy hand hath provided—
“Great is Thy faithfulness,” Lord, unto me!

2 

Summer and winter, and springtime and harvest,
Sun, moon and stars in their courses above,
Join with all nature in manifold witness
To Thy great faithfulness, mercy and love.

3 

Pardon for sin and a peace that endureth,
Thine own dear presence to cheer and to guide;
Strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow,
Blessings all mine, with ten thousand beside!

Is it time to allow God and stop trying to do it on our own? He will be faithful to carry us through, we just have to look to Him, not just in the big, but in ALL.

Throw

1 Peter 5:7 "casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you."

Psalm 55:22 "Cast your cares on the LORD and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous be shaken."

God calls us to throw (cast) all our cares on Him, not just the big things. So many times I find myself full of anxiety over the little things, you know one little thing is one thing, but when they add all up, they begin to become a very big lump of mass that just weighs me down. I believe that is why He says throw them all on Him, cast them to Him for He cares for me, He wants me to be free from the ways of the world. The world tries to do it all on its own, but God says trust in Him, He will take care of not just the big things, but the little things as well.

Let me explain. My wife and I have been looking for a dresser for her daughter. We have searched all the usual places, but either to expensive, not good enough for the money they wanted and the list went on for the reasons. On Friday my wife prayed about it and although she might have thought that the prayer was so insignificant, she still gave it to God. Saturday morning both her and I prayed before we went to a garage sale. Yes, it seems so small to ask God for a dresser, to ask Him for help on that, but there is no prayer to small for God. 

We got to the garage sale, outside it looked like not much was there and could have been just a drive by, but with faith we got out to take a look. Inside the garage was a dresser marked at 20 dollars, this dresser could have been sold for well over 100 dollars, but it was marked at 20, we walked out of that garage sale with a dresser and night stand paying only 20 dollars for both. That is a God job, He is in it all, we think that our little prayers are insignificant, but He says they are all significant to Him. 

Matthew 10:30 "But even the hairs of your head are all numbered."

Luke 12:7 "Why, even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not; you are of more value than many sparrows."

There is nothing to big or to small for God to do. Why are we so afraid to ask? Isn't it time to throw all your cares on Him, what are you waiting for?