Entry Ten

I will give praise to my God for he is always with me.                                                                                My God is always for me and working the best in me.

This is the prayer from my heart today. There is a promise my heart heard a year and a half ago. How much I banked on the fulfillment, even processed its fulfillment. 

But God...

Today, promise yet unfulfilled and for reason I may never understand, a picture of reality right now has been given and I feel the charge to let go. 

So I lay down the promise and trust that God is working and, though I may not understand the process, the faithfulness of God is unwavering and good and trustworthy and worthy of my praise. 

No matter what happens, my God is not contained and the fulfillment will come as God ordains in God's time AND in God's way. My God is able and I can rest in that truth every day of all the rest of the days of my life. No matter what ever happens with the promise I heard, the steadfast love of God is real.

Entry Nine

I had a dream last night where I started teaching biblical truths off of a recipe. I don't remember all of it but two things I remember...

1. I asked if anyone had ever seen an ingredient on a recipe (the one in the recipe was onions) that you are not sure you want to put in the recipe? From your point of view, the ingredient is not your favorite so it is optional. Application: How often does this happen in life? We see the next ingredient on our life "recipe" and we try and leave that one out. God might have a plan for it, but its not our favorite. Can't really change anything that much, right? But what if its absence changes more than we know. What if it changes the whole flavor of this moment in our lives?

2. Half way through teaching the lesson the recipe changed from a bunt cake recipe to a soup recipe - hence the onions. Not even close. Gotta love dreams. And yet....Application: Do you ever feel like the whole recipe you were living by got changed? This is not to say that what you are cooking for has changed. This is to say the task handed to you is now different, not expected, maybe not even wanted. How do you cook when the recipe you hold is not one you want? Do you still give all you have and make it the best dish ever or do you really leave what you don't want out. Or  worse yet, do you set it down and refuse to make the new recipe because you wanted to make the bunt cake, you signed up to make the bunt cake, but this?!?

Dreams are funny. I dream a lot and most are random, but this one stayed with me.

I do wood burning and the project I am working on has the hymn words "Morning by morning new mercies I see...Great is Your faithfulness, Lord unto me." There is a verse on the bottom in small type that reads from Exodus when God led the people by the way of the wilderness (instead of leading them straight into the promised land).

I could say more but this one just needs to simmer I think. There are a lot of extra places one could go with it all but let's keep it simple. What am I doing with the recipe God has placed in my hands for this moment, day, month, or season of my life?