The Quiet Place

Tonight as I sat in the light of my freshly decorated "halls", I couldn't help but think of all of the things that 2020 has brought (and has yet to bring!). This year has been quite the challenge to say the least. For me, 2020 has been year of great streching. God has pulled this clay of mine and folded it over and over again. This year God also brought me to my knees in humility, literally. Everyhting He did in me was SO needed! And I'm extreamly grateful for all of it. God's word says, " No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace  for those who have been trained by it. " (Hebrews 12:11). I'm grateful to now have a measure of experience in God's discipline. His discipline though painful at the time, has brought me SO MUCH JOY, PEACE, and fruit from His throneroom. I am a much better person today than I was before 2020, and I know that as I continue to yeild to God...

Your feelings don’t determine the divinity of a situation. Just because things seem difficult or aren’t what we expected or desired, doesn’t mean that they are not divinely ordered. Scripture says God’s thoughts are not our thoughts, nor are His ways our ways. Rather the divinity of a situation is determined by God alone. When we stick near to Him, dwelling in His presence and hiding His word on our minds and hearts, that’s when He shares His secrets and plans with us. That’s how we are able to see with clear eyes if the circumstance we are in is God ordered. We don’t see through the eyes of emotions, rather we see with the eyes of the spirit of God, through knowing Him and His voice. The things of God are discerned through the knowing of God. Thus, we need not be thrown around by what we feel, rather we can overcome these emotions by seeing through the eyes of Christ, and knowing Him.  Blessed is she who believed that the Lord would fulfill His promises to her.