It has been a very long time since I've posted much on my blog. I have been so busy, and when I do have a chance to sit down at the computer posting on my blog is about last on my list of concerns! I always think that one day I will have more time to do things like blog posts, but life instead proves that I have less and less free time to do these things. Hmm... I wonder if I have any readers left? If I do, they must be very faithful and have more hope in this blog than I do!
It's almost the end of 2009... what should I say of this past year? When I actually take a moment to think about this past year so many things come to my mind that I could write of. There is one resounding theme, though, when I think about this past year: God is so good to me.
God is so good to me! When I think of failures, ways I've grown, mountaintops, valleys, and mundane things I am always reminded of how good the Lord has been to me through it all. It overwhelms me when I look back over this past year and see how the Lord has protected and guided me all the way with His loving care. He knows just when to reach down and comfort in a dark night, and He knows to reprove when I've wandered astray! Both are from Him, both show His mercy toward me, both show me just a bit of His love for me, both help to deepen my walk with Him. How often I find that when I begin to taste a little of His goodness I only want more and more of Him. To know Him is to want to know Him more... as my walk with Him has deepened over the past year I've found more and more truth in that phrase. Each day as I learn more about Him, I am constantly reminded of how good He is to me. How little I know of His goodness, but, oh, how I want to know more!!!
I was meditating on this verse a bit this evening...
As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake with thy likeness. Psalm 17:15 Very often there are things set in my way that make me want to shrink away from what I know is my duty as a Christian, they seem so hard, or I may see nothing in them that seems like it could be working out for my good and His glory. It is often hard to follow on the path He sets before me when I can't see what lies ahead, when I don't understand why... but He is good, He knows why, and it's all out of His love for me that He sets those things before me. It is wonderful to be reminded that after He has tried and purified me... after my race is finished, I will awake with His likeness and I shall be satisfied! I will know that to follow after Him in righteousness even when I don't understand is worth it... and I will be satisfied if I always keep Him in view. He is just, He is righteous, and He knows what is best for me and He will bring me through. I truly serve a good God!
Well, I hope that you didn't mind reading a few of my thoughts. Keep the Lord ever before you and you will be reminded of His goodness toward you. He is worthy to be served, He is worthy of our love and service, He is worthy of our all!!!
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