Sunday morning I was challenged on many levels, enlarging my heart, my mind, my understanding of who God really is...
One thing really stuck out for my though and that was the statement that "your testimony won't be about all the bad things that happened to you that God saved you from, but rather it might be about all the bad things that God protected you from." Or at least it went something like that. Many of us never did all the "bad" things (drugs, smoking, drinking, stealing...) that some do that God saves them from and they have this "great" testimony that a lot of us can't identify with, but are amazed at how God had continually restored them after they went through so many hard years.
Some of us came from good homes, actually made mostly good decisions and feel like we don't have a marvelous testimony to share. But what if we looked back on our lives and testified on all the things that God had protected us from through the years. All those times when we were about to make a bad decision and we didn't, we were going to speed, but chose to slow down, the times we were going to go home one way, but decided to take another route only to find out that there had been a terrible car accident on the route we were going to take right around the time we would have driven by. God is always with us and I think so many times we really don't realize how involved in our lives He is, I'm guilty of it, that I know.
It got me thinking about my life and when I think back I can testify to many, many times that God protected me. I didn't necessarily know it then, but looking back, I see it so very clearly and I thank God for ALWAYS being by my side weather I acknowledge Him or not.
"Yet I am always with you, you hold me by my right hand." Psalm 73:23
WOW, I AM is always with me! Thank you Jesus!
Can you ever go home? It's a good question, but now that I've been back here for a little more than four years, I thought it was time to change my title and in the process maybe actually get back into blogging assuming I'm not lost forever in this place we call the world wide web.
About Me
- Bonnie
- I am a mother of one tween and two teens and the wife of a man who I love. I am the follower of a Lord and Savior that is living, real and my everything. I love to spend time with friends, even though I don't do it very often, I love my job and I love going to my kids sports events. I golf with my husband, even though I don't do it well, he is always very patient with me. My life is good, not perfect, but good. I am happy.
...but the greatest of these is LOVE
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2 comments:
beautiful!
i was impacted by that statement when he said it too.
I have often thought that when I get to heaven, it will be amazing to see all the times I was protected. There are the obvious times, in which I, and others say it was "luck", but what if I were to give God praise for providing his protection in those times. I chicken out thinking that I would be thought of as a freak.
But I suppose, we are called to be freaks... not of this world... living on a higher power... life is designed and not a bunch of coincidences and dumb luck. I think that when we use the word luck, we are stealing credit from God.
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