Along Came A Spider

7/4/14

As I sat outside this morning, studying the book of Daniel, I watched this beautiful spider weave it's web.

It had a gorgeous zig-zagged pattern in the middle of the web, very bold, like nothing I had seen before.

As I feel God likes to speak to me through metaphors a lot of the time, I felt him whispering to me while I watched this spider.

It has taken her hours to make one line, she constantly pauses and rests, continuously weathering the wind and leaves that get caught in her web.

It reminds me of us.

Each of us given the freedom, by God, to uniquely design our homes and life to make it beautiful and purposeful, able to withstand storms.

I've learned, in the hour from watching her. That is okay to take breaks, refocus and get back to work.

Finish your unique task that only you can do, and make it beautiful.

I need Jesus

   

If you can just get caught up, if you can get your bills paid up, some money in the bank...then you will seek God fully.

 

Excuses.

I know, I tell them to myself daily. In fact, my favorite prayer is " God, if you will just get us out of debt I will serve you and give however you see fit"...

You know what I picture God saying back to me? " What are you doing with the litte I gave you? And you want me to give you more? Abundantly?" 

...

I know, because the Bible tells me so, that my God is a good God. He forgives us and loves us and wants more for us than we could ever want for ourselves. However, he is a jealous and just God.

Our attention is constantly on other things. Wanting more money, bigger houses, the newest _____etc.

Our good intentions to please God get side tracked by our Intentions to please ourselves.

God knows that. He knows we struggle, that we have desires and wants....

And he says, seek me first. 

Stop searching for happiness in those things and seek me. 

Put aside your fears with money, your greediness with new material things, and look for Him.

 

According to Matthew 7:7 "Ask and it will be given to you, seek and you shall find..."

SEARCH for God and you will find him. 

Be still and know him. 

And then ask of him...

And you know what he says?

"My dear sweet beautiful child, it's yours."

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And you know the secret to this passage... When you seek his righteousness...Your ways start looking a whole lot more like His ways.....kind of beautiful, huh?

Credit for pic

Colossians 3: 12-14

So, chosen by God for this new life of love, dress in the wardrobe God picked out for you: compassion, kindness, humility, quiet strength, discipline. Be even-tempered, content with second place, quick to forgive an offense. Forgive as quickly and completely as the Master forgave you. And regardless of what else you put on, wear love. It’s your basic, all-purpose garment. Never be without it.

On a random, nothing special day, I ran across this picture...

and my outlook on life changed.

We I have consistently been in a funk lately.

On my bills to income ratio...bills are #winning, Drama is around every corner and I just feel lost.

People come into my place of business and I word vomit all my problems all over them ( #bringtoweluponentering).

I've been so involved in myself and my hopeless situations, that I forget to be selfless and show love. I am getting on my OWN nerves.

Then, on another random stressful day, as I am "desperately seeking susan " God in my bible and through prayers and coming up feeling empty...

I come across this passage...

Colossians 3:12-14....put on love... 

Regardless of what else you put on...put on love.

How hard is that?

A simple daily choice. Everyday. To add an extra layer as your getting ready.

I know, life happens. Good intentions start every morning and we have a clean slate and are ready to start our daily resolutions...

Then mistake are made, bad moods hender our love walk...and we are right back to stress and attitudes.

You do not become a Christian and just miraculously, the rest of your life,  have this love that just pours out of you constantly.

We should though, we should be so excited about what God is doing in our life and is going to do, that we just walk around in rainbows and sunshine (very snow white).

But that takes time. Time spent with the Father. Time learning your own way through the bible and his teachings. Listening to people who strengthen your walk.

Jesus says in John 17:3 

(backstory: Jesus had just told his Disciples that he was about to leave, to be with the Father. He then goes on to pray to God over himself, his disciples and all believers.)

" And this is the real and eternal life: They they know you, the one and only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent."

Did you catch that?

This. is. the. real. and. eternal. life.

Right now. In the midst of our every day life.

If we were to really dig and learn and get to know, not someone we know ABOUT...but someone we know personally... God, Christ and the Holy Spirit.

If we read and really, truly believed what was written. Could you imagine the kind of overwhelming joy we would have daily?

We would be EXCITED! Jumping up and down excited!

I truly believe that.

I also believe that is what this blog's purpose is for.

To take a ordinary wife, mom and believer ( #pickme )...and turn her into a proverbs 31 wife, God led mother and (dare I say) radical believer.

I want to find this overwhelming all incompassing love that the bible speaks of, people sing about and worshipers give up their lives for.

Join me.