Blogging a bit early tonight...Do you know what my life has really changed completely from reading the book Believing Christ..I know, I know I keep going on about this book but it has made me think through the atonement in such a different way :-)
Do you know we are linked with the Saviour and that whatever we manage to do, as long as we have tried is enough!! If I can manage 25% that is Ok cos the Lord is ready and willing to make up the rest, but if my best is just 2% thats still Ok, cos He will still make it up :-) Did you know we have already been accepted into the Lord's kingdom and will make it, unless WE choose to opt out and why on earth would we? So no longer do we have to worry that our best is not good enough. As long as we try - sincerely try - and don't choose to opt out we are promised exaltation. How jolly and amazing is that !!!
I had a wonderful prayer this morning and it started off an amazing day!
On a nice drive into work I was singing along to myself as I often do (be glad you are not there is is not a pretty sound but I dont mind - lol) and into my head came the hymn How Firm A Foundation. And one single sentence stood out to me today..."As thy days may demand so thy succor shall be".
Succor is one of those words I love, the idea that when you need Him the Saviour will come running to assist you, if you will just turn to Him. But this phrase taught me today that the Saviour is in it for the long haul :-) So when I am having a good day and He doesnt have to come running quite so much that's great...but when I am having one of those days when things seem to be coming apart at the seam, then thats still ok - if my day demands more succor, more rescuing, more running too thats ok too - cos the Lord is in for the long run!!! He is with me no matter what !!!
But it didnt stop there...at work I sit next to a lovely man from India who at lunchtime shared a tragic event in his family with me that occured just a few months ago and he sat there testifying of His God - how lovely to hear that in what is usually such a worldly atmosphere.
But the tender mercies are all around us - I am thankful I felt pretty well today, that I ate some Maltesers with my lunch (yum yum - my fav!), that I have wonderful friends who send me uplifting messages, that I have a mobile phone where I can carry a church bookshop, scriptures, and General Conference with me, that I have an evening where I can curl up inside all cosy, that the grocery shopping is done for the week and of course that the weekend has arrived!!!!!!
Am I blessed? I think I am :-) But what is he VERY best thing of all is that I am starting to realise just how much !!!
Yay !!!
It's so wonderful to read the change of heart you are having Sara! Miracles truly happen when we acknowledge the Lords hand in all things! It's so easy to rely on the arm of man, and neglect to see our blessings. How wonderful it is that we can reflect and recognise our Saviour! Even if it takes for us to go through something horrid! I know this for myself as I went through all my yucky stuff this past year. But you know, I wouldn't have been able to be where I am today without my Saviour! Absolutely not! He's helped me to think clearer and feel millions better! I still struggle and need his help, but that is what he is there for. How blessed I feel to know I am not alone in any of this!
ReplyDeleteLove you Sara! You are an amazing woman! Sometimes you doubt you are, but remember, you are Heavenly Father's daughter!!! How amazing is he? Exactly! :)