Over the weekend, I was at an anniversary party and some friends of ours sat down next to me
and the guy said to me, "So, when you are you going to write a devotional?"
Almost on a daily basis, on my facebook wall in the morning I share little snipits of what God is teaching 'today' and I never really thought about it, but I guess a lot of it would be "devotional" type of material.
I kind of sat there with a puzzled look on my face and said "Huh..." It wasn't like a question "huh?",
but more like a "Well, there's a thought." I told him, That's a good idea. I know I'm supposed to be writing, but sometimes I just don't feel like I have enough in me to write a whole book.
But I do have bits and pieces of things on my heart."
As soon as I left the party, the thought came to me, well that's the biggest lie you've ever told yourself.
Have you ever told yourself a lie like this?
That you don't have enough in you to do what it takes....
"Really?"
I felt like that's what God said to me..
.yes, now God is saying it
(the really thing)...
He said "Really Julie? YOU don't have enough in you, eh? Don't I live on the inside of you?
Isn't it by MY strength, by MY power? Don't you live and move and have your being in ME?"
Wow! Well I keep telling myself, it's all Him... All of this, everything I write, being a mother, being a wife, stepping into new positions in my life, it's all Him. It's all by his strength I do any of it. I can't be a mother of three on my own. Are you kidding me? I can't be a wife of seventeen years on my own. I can write this stuff on my own...
So why would the next thing (the scarier thing) be any different?
(As if trying to raise and instill morals into three small people isn't scary)
It's not us, It's him.
We just have to be willing.
Are you willing?
We have to remember that the Greater One is on the inside of us. Why do we belittle him to having such
little ability through us? We are telling God he didn't give us what it takes...
Or better yet, why do we think that anything we do or have ever done is done without him?
It's not...
Allow yourself to believe that "Greater is He that is in YOU..." (I John 4:4)
With it comes freedom to open yourself and allow everything (and I mean everything)
HE
placed on the inside of you, every passion, every talent... to be used for his Glory.
He put it there. There is nothing God can't do through you. We just have to allow him to.
I love this scripture I heard last night and read this morning...
Daniel 11:32~ But the people who know there God shall prove themselves strong and stand firm
and do exploits for Him (their God).
If you know your God, this means you...
Congrats to Hanna over at
bouffe e bambini
for winning the #tenpoundsbytenten challenge.
She was actually the only one who lost over ten pounds! Yay! Go Hanna!
She was actually the only one who lost over ten pounds! Yay! Go Hanna!
3 comments:
I love it Julie. I think you SHOULD write a devotional. You make some great points here. It is because of God that we are able.
if you gather up your blog posts and facebook statuses (which I never see, unfortunately, since I'm never on fb), you'll be half-way there! (I only say half-way because I know how much work it will be to put everything in order and edit and whatnot) and this post could be your forward or intro or whatever =)
I just wrote about that in my post that featured you. I know you have the talent to write a devotional book. I just have been waiting. Everything you wrote is sooo true.
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