Another re-run in running. As I stated previously, my motto has always been that when the going gets tuff, don't just walk, run away! However now that I am a follower and believer of Jesus Christ, the problem is this, Jesus will not let me run anymore. Try as I might to run, fight, argue, kick and scream, or rebel Jesus just keeps bringing me back to the people, places, things, or situations that I do not want to deal with.
Usually after the dust settles, and I find myself left with nowhere to run but into Jesus' arms, I always see how great our God is and that He is always there waiting for me to humble myself so that He can once again lift me up. I fall, He picks me up. I fail, He is faithful to complete the work that He has begun in me.
Lately it has been more difficult for me to face the truth about myself and where I am going wrong, and when I do face up to the truth I find that admitting and confessing it before God is a lot easier for me than actually admitting it to another human being and repenting from the behavior or sin in itself. I don't know about you, but I am pretty stubborn and resistant to change, and I know that eventually Jesus is going to change me whether I agree to do it His way or not. I do find that His way is usually a lot easier than the way that I would usually choose, so why not surrender?
So in my attempt to encourage may I suggest that if there is something or someone that you are running from...STOP! Wait for the Lord. Surrender. For some time now that is all that I seem to be hearing, wait for the Lord, and honestly I have the tendency to get a little angry when I hear it over and over and over again, but I was reminded last night that Gods ways are not my ways, His thoughts are not my thoughts, His words are not my words, and His timing is not my timing. He alone is God.
In closing, I love the Lord and I know that He loves me. I thank Him for His grace and His life changing word and I pray that I never lose the desire to know His love more deeply. My prayer...Lord may we grow to love as You have loved us. Amen.
For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height— to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
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