Much has happened since my post in May. After all, it has been 4 months. I am sure much happens in most of our lives in that length of time! However, our 4 months has seen exciting changes and a brand new season for our family.
In July, we picked up and moved 1200 miles to meet a new city, state, climate, terrain, dwelling place, and body of believers. We now find ourselves in Pennsylvania enjoying gorgeous hills, frequent sporadic rainfall, and a lot of sweet new friends in the making.
This season is set to have new blessings and challenges. Charles is teaching high school math at a Christian school and I am to be starting very part time work as a nurse on the IV team at the local hospital. We are, for the first time in our married life, renting a house rather than an apartment. We are working Dave Ramsey style to say good-bye to student loans and I am enjoying seeing much more of our children, which has been my heartcry for the last two years.
All of this is good and we are excited, but the most exciting part is that for the first time in awhile now, I see the Lord breathing life into bones that had grown dry. For the last two years or so, I have been praying that God would grant me a renewed passion and fervor for Him. I tried over and over again to generate said passion through self-discipline and my own effort only to finally realize that we have no plan B. Just as we can only come to the Father if we are drawn, so our passion for Christ can only be birthed by the Holy Spirit. Living water for those in the desert only comes from he who IS the living water.
I was reading in the book of Matthew last week and was struck by Jesus' parable about the different types of soil, most specifically the thorn ridden soil that chokes out the seed. When Jesus explains the parable, he lists one of the thorns as "the cares of this world.". I was convicted that this thorn is one that I often allow to wrap around my life because these cares are good things- doing laundry, making food, maintaining a household, etc. BUT, good things can still be thorns. By God's grace, I will not allow anything to choke out the life of Christ in me! Praying the same for you today! If you are knee or neck deep in the cares of this world, throw yourself upon Christ and ask Him to re-ignite passion for Him and His kingdom that usurps those good things that are nonetheless temporal. If you are thirsty for more of Jesus today, be encouraged. He will bring water in the desert and life to the dead.
In July, we picked up and moved 1200 miles to meet a new city, state, climate, terrain, dwelling place, and body of believers. We now find ourselves in Pennsylvania enjoying gorgeous hills, frequent sporadic rainfall, and a lot of sweet new friends in the making.
This season is set to have new blessings and challenges. Charles is teaching high school math at a Christian school and I am to be starting very part time work as a nurse on the IV team at the local hospital. We are, for the first time in our married life, renting a house rather than an apartment. We are working Dave Ramsey style to say good-bye to student loans and I am enjoying seeing much more of our children, which has been my heartcry for the last two years.
All of this is good and we are excited, but the most exciting part is that for the first time in awhile now, I see the Lord breathing life into bones that had grown dry. For the last two years or so, I have been praying that God would grant me a renewed passion and fervor for Him. I tried over and over again to generate said passion through self-discipline and my own effort only to finally realize that we have no plan B. Just as we can only come to the Father if we are drawn, so our passion for Christ can only be birthed by the Holy Spirit. Living water for those in the desert only comes from he who IS the living water.
I was reading in the book of Matthew last week and was struck by Jesus' parable about the different types of soil, most specifically the thorn ridden soil that chokes out the seed. When Jesus explains the parable, he lists one of the thorns as "the cares of this world.". I was convicted that this thorn is one that I often allow to wrap around my life because these cares are good things- doing laundry, making food, maintaining a household, etc. BUT, good things can still be thorns. By God's grace, I will not allow anything to choke out the life of Christ in me! Praying the same for you today! If you are knee or neck deep in the cares of this world, throw yourself upon Christ and ask Him to re-ignite passion for Him and His kingdom that usurps those good things that are nonetheless temporal. If you are thirsty for more of Jesus today, be encouraged. He will bring water in the desert and life to the dead.
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Needed this...thank you!!!
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