I have no idea where to start in this post, so I guess sequential order is best. I was discouraged...see August 29th if you don't believe me! One of the great reasons I was discourage is it was like 2.5 weeks before I was getting married and we did not know where we were going to live and a couple great places I thought were for sures, turned out to be nos...It WAS discouraging. It was also encouraging in the way it let me experience a part of God's character that I was less familiar with...God as a great comforter. God as a comforter is better realized when I am sad, when I cry a lot and call out to the Lord in that. Around the end of August time period I wrote this entry, never finished it, never published it.
In the past couple months the Lord has shown me things, things that I want, but things that are not mine. It's a little bit more than a little frustrating/sad at times. True. It is as if I see things through glass...I can see it, evaluate it, picture myself having it and right when I reach for it I'm block because there is in fact still glass. That's when I hear it, the question that matters..."Do you trust me?" A little bit more than yesterday, but no where close to where I ought.
I think that gives a pretty good idea of where I was.
So Did God give me what I wanted? Nope and at the same time very much so. He did not give me the things "he showed me" that I wanted. He gave me a chance to stand by my husband and proclaim the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ and see it melt frozen hearts. Wow...did you get that?
More about this later.
Dear Steph, I like to be able to read/hear the way you think thru things. It was always encouraging when I first met you, and it still is now. I love you!
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