To: JustPiper
BLESS YOU AND YOURS MANY TONS FOR YOUR SUSTAINING WORDS!!!
I don't THINK I feel that resentful if any at all. Mystified in some respects. Though I realize God is God and always will be God and that I don't HAVE to understand things.
A dear sister about 35 years ago told me The Father wanted me to "rejoice not that I made you so differently [from others] but rejoice IN MY CAPACITY to HOLD YOU IN A HARD PLACE."
I felt it was an awesome, kind of ominous prophetic word at the time. Given the abundant fulfillment of it over the years and again now . . . it has turned out to be even more so. I'm still struggling to get to that place of rejoicing in His capacity to do that though I have at times.
And, I know that we must "walk by faith" even when it's hard and we can't seem to shake loose much of a clue about what's going on.
And, I know that when God operates on me, within me, He seems to have to do it without any or at least without much of my conscious awareness so I don't muck up the surgery.
Nevertheless, IT IS NO FUN!!!! Sigh.
The encouragements such as yours are really desperately longed for water in a long 'Death Valley' trek.
THANKS TRAINLOADS,
2,945 posted on
03/06/2004 7:26:45 AM PST by
Quix
(Choose this day whom U will serve: Shrillery & demonic goons or The King of Kings and Lord of Lords)
To: Quix
Sending a warm hug.
Thank you for all that you are doing.
May God keep you and your Mother safe.
Ruth
2,955 posted on
03/06/2004 10:51:58 AM PST by
nw_arizona_granny
(where are the terrorists hiding? (is an interesting Google.com search)
To: Quix
Always Q always ;)
3,013 posted on
03/06/2004 11:59:26 PM PST by
JustPiper
(The fly cannot be driven away by getting angry at it)
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