My time management was far from great but a whole lot better than the previous days. Thank God for the quickening yesterday, I felt this surge of strength and excitement writing down this month's challenge. The truth is writing down a goal or anything makes it more real than having an abstract desire in your mind. It help you get on it faster!
We are currently on a fellowship program called 'Week of Emphasis' and part of it had to do with going to the pilgrim group outside school to fellowship with them and yesterday's was just with the pilgrim leaders. When we got there yesterday's evening, we met them sharing and singing songs that brings joy and stability to the soul.
Goodness! You need to see these old men and women (some with real thick grey hairs) singing with this joy in their heart. I could literally feel their conviction as they sang. They sang "Kept by the power of God", "I'm complete in him" and when they were singing, it was clear that they were not just meditating on the lyrics, they have experience too to meditate on and that made the song come alive to me. It was tangible.
To see them all grey nodding with so much Joy to worship shows that really being in God is a pleasure. I could see that they are not still in Christ because they have no choice. Neither is it because everything was rosy. They held unto God and touched his realness and are persuaded in their conviction through the ups and down if life. They sure had stormy times.
I can't boast of that. I have a whole lifetime to experience things that will build my conviction in him. Deeper and Deeper. It's 'really encouraging to watch them serve God old and grey. I pray we don't just get to that place but that our conviction brings our children and generation to that point....
Dear, Lord. Thank you for calling me to you now that I am young. Thank you for letting me experience your love as a child. Lord, watching our fathers reverence you shows a big gap in us. Help me experience you in deeper ways. Deepen my conviction in you. They have experiences that has magnified you so greatly in their lives and I am not yet there. Please, Help me. I want you to be so magnified in my life, that you become more real than these things that often distract me. Help me to go deeper in you and to able to pass on the legacey of loving you to many generations to come. Amen.
I read a book, where i saw, its only in God that i can find true pleasure. To be candid, iwas trying to believe that, like i am convince in God i can find rest, success,etc, but pleasure,, Hmm, i boldly asked if this is really true. Then , after reading i went in to do that which i rely on to give me pleasure but i was then searching for the pleasure i thought i used to derive from it. It was frustrating i couldnt find any. In summary, i later was convince that pleasure, yrue pleasure only comes from Gid though i will am still in need of more conviction
ReplyDeleteConvictions are built over time but the more we stay in his presence. Not just to talk to him, read his words but also to Sarah in that atmosphere of him.
DeleteYour soul will begin to adjust and be truly filled up in him.