Living for Christ a day at a time

This is my first blog and I wanted to say something really profound that would touch the hearts of any readers and encourage someone through this day. What comes to mind is the goodness and faithfulness of God. He, unlike anyone else that I know never changes. I never have to wonder if He will hear me when pray or cry out to Him. I never doubt He will answer me when I pray according to His will. And I have every confidence that what is written will be done. He never lies! All my uncertainty comes when I take my eyes off His Word and choose to do what I feel instead of what He has commanded. Even when that which He has said is contrary to what I want to do I have learned through experience His Way is always best. For His Word is tested, proven and establish forever in heaven.

When I think of the Word saying that the way is difficult and narrow, I think ok, yet it is in the doing that I realize just how difficult it is. I am grateful that He said, difficult and not impossible, for therein lies my hope. He also said that all things are possible with Him. Thank God for His Word and His Holy Spirit that enable us to endure and overcome.

I am encouraged and therefore encourage you to be like Paul when he said that he dies daily so that Christ may live in Him. These words are so often spoken with great emphasizes yet walking them out daily makes me walk circumspectly. Because to me although my walk is observed by others as a light and witness of my Lord Jesus, it is truly Him that I am striving to please.

And so today I will lay down my will, meaning no grumbling and complaining, seeking peace and pursuing it, treating others the way I want to be treated and doing it with a grateful heart to God my Savior.