by Kimberly | Oct 7, 2014 | Bible, glory and grace, mothering
God’s loyal love couldn’t have run out,
his merciful love couldn’t have dried up.
They’re created new every morning.
How great your faithfulness!
I’m sticking with God (I say it over and over).
He’s all I’ve got left. God proves to be good to the man who passionately waits,
to the woman who diligently seeks.
It’s a good thing to quietly hope,
quietly hope for help from God.
It’s a good thing when you’re young
to stick it out through the hard times
Lamentations 3 – The Message
I know several friends, many of whom are new mommies, that struggle with the day to day like I sometimes do. Our kids are small, our husbands work long hours, sometimes other jobs are also on our agenda for today.
My one piece of advice that I was given that I also share the most with these friends is this:
You only need to get through today.
God gives grace enough for today – and tomorrow, you know what, HE is faithful to give more grace and show us his radically new mercies that enable us to fight the enemy:
Exhaustion
Impatience
Fatigue
Worry
Fear
Selfishness
His mercies are better.
by Kimberly | Oct 6, 2014 | Bible, glory and grace
I remember one of the worship pastors I had recently just engaged us with this Psalm every chance he got. It was his heart and his soul.
I love how the Message puts it. And I think the change in language makes it even more difficult to do – therefore needing all the more grace to do it!
by Kimberly | Oct 4, 2014 | glory and grace
I want to drink God,
deep draughts of God.
I’m thirsty for God-alive.
Psalm 42
On your good days – do you think you can get by without thinking about God at all?
On your not-so-good days – do you cling to your pity and failures?
What about drinking down God?
You will always be satisfied and yet thirsty for oh so much more!
by Kimberly | Oct 3, 2014 | Bible, glory and grace
I yell out to my God, I yell with all my might,
I yell at the top of my lungs.
He listens.
Psalm 77:1 – the Message
Do you know and understand and realize and stake claim to the fact that the GOD OF THE UNIVERSE, the One who was before anything else ever came on the scene, the One who just spoke and everything came into existence – that God is the one who hears your prayers?
Shouldn’t that cause us to pray all the time – to seek him when we are troubled and scared and nervous and wondering what to do? He delights in us and desires us – and hears us!
And he would listen to us even if all we could muster up was a quiet whisper in the middle of the night.
by Kimberly | Oct 2, 2014 | Bible, glory and grace
There are some phrases that stand out to me in the Bible: therefore, but God, since, remember…and this one
HOLD FAST.
What grips your heart? Is it fear? It is loneliness? Is it pride? Is it desire? Why not let it be the things of God and His Word and His promises and His character.
“Let your heart hold fa
st my words; keep my commandments, and live!”
Proverbs 4:4
There is great hope when we cling to God and His Word. A friend, and former pastor, wrote recently on his blog that there is great LIFE in reading your Bible. He didn’t make it up. He got it from an Old Testament book. Read the Bible. Find hope. Find wisdom. Find the God who wrote it. And live. Hold Fast to it!
by Kimberly | Oct 1, 2014 | glory and grace
1 Peter 1:3-5 – The Message
“What a God we have! And how fortunate we are to have him, this Father of our Master Jesus! Because Jesus was raised from the dead, we’ve been given a brand-new life and have everything to live for, including a future in heaven—and the future starts now! God is keeping careful watch over us and the future. The Day is coming when you’ll have it all—life healed and whole.”
People often say there is no hope. Or they use hope in a way that is not biblical hope. I can hope right now that my boys go take their nap. But, that’s not biblical hope.
The living hope that we are called to because of the resurrection of Jesus Christ is JESUS! Everything that is ours through Jesus is because of Jesus so JESUS is our living hope.
Today – when you are weak because its hump day, or your littles won’t nap, or your days are long, or you burn dinner…JESUS is your LIVING HOPE!
