Growing up, I was never encouraged by anyone to read God's Word. During Sunday mass, I never paid attention to the homily. Never mind that I went to two Catholic universities, I never found any motivation reading the Bible and nor did I bother what it had to tell me. With a poor spiritual foundation, I clambered through life, making poor and decisions one after the other. With my moral compass shaken, I made choices that compromised my honor, my purity and my future. I gravitated and loitered around a culture that opposed all of God's truth. Until I fell flat. On my face. But God loved me with an absolute love that I could not comprehend. He bound my wound and healed me. He took my hands, carried me and said I had been redeemed by Jesus. What a profound experience! That encounter led me to get to know Him and gave me the thirst to delve into the character and the story of the Jesus who paid for my sins. I began reading the Bible and as I did, my perspective began changing. The words written became so alive that it pierced, it stabbed and it bore deep. Yet it healed unlike any balm, it comforted me unlike any arms that ever held me, it soothed all my aches and pain, it assured my every doubt and fear. It gave me a purpose and hope for a future. I began introducing my husband to the God who healed me and transformed me and I knew He became really real to Paul as he began to notice and appreciate the changes in me. Today, with God's grace and nothing else, my marriage is in the best state it has ever been. We do our utmost to be at all times grounded in His word so we can maintain an eternal perspective. We still face trials but we know that there is no storm that God cannot calm. We are not without problems but with God's Word as our light, no journey will ever be as dark.
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Lord, my entire life has been built on those that are temporal. Every decision I made, every action taken and words spoken were reflections of my ungodliness. I allowed the "wisdom" of the world take over me and live in my heart. I took on life's challenges single-handedly, based my choices on worldly logic and built the groundwork of my life on sand. When storms and flood came, everything I made easily crumbled and came apart. After so much downpour and the many times it collapsed, I finally realized that the only true and strong foundation that I should be building my life on, is You and Your Word. Thank You for this very important realization, for being my Jehovah Ezer, for helping me rebuild my life on a stronger and more solid foundation than ever before. Thank You for insuring my life and convicting me to submit to Your will. Teach me further to understand Your messages for me, to discern the deeper meanings of Your words and to make it a habit to turn to them for guidance in all things. Feed me the truth of the Scriptures and help me commit to not just learn it but to actually LIVE it, to make it a part of me, who I am and what I do so that my strategies in life for myself, my marriage and my family maybe glorifyng to You. I know what happens and how it feels to stand on sand so I ask You Father, to hold my hand as I make my way to stand on the solid rock of Your Word. Because I know no matter how strong the storm gets, how much the wind blows, how high the floods rise, no matter the weather, my future is safe in Your hands :) Amen.
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. -- Psalm 119:105
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Lord, my entire life has been built on those that are temporal. Every decision I made, every action taken and words spoken were reflections of my ungodliness. I allowed the "wisdom" of the world take over me and live in my heart. I took on life's challenges single-handedly, based my choices on worldly logic and built the groundwork of my life on sand. When storms and flood came, everything I made easily crumbled and came apart. After so much downpour and the many times it collapsed, I finally realized that the only true and strong foundation that I should be building my life on, is You and Your Word. Thank You for this very important realization, for being my Jehovah Ezer, for helping me rebuild my life on a stronger and more solid foundation than ever before. Thank You for insuring my life and convicting me to submit to Your will. Teach me further to understand Your messages for me, to discern the deeper meanings of Your words and to make it a habit to turn to them for guidance in all things. Feed me the truth of the Scriptures and help me commit to not just learn it but to actually LIVE it, to make it a part of me, who I am and what I do so that my strategies in life for myself, my marriage and my family maybe glorifyng to You. I know what happens and how it feels to stand on sand so I ask You Father, to hold my hand as I make my way to stand on the solid rock of Your Word. Because I know no matter how strong the storm gets, how much the wind blows, how high the floods rise, no matter the weather, my future is safe in Your hands :) Amen.
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. -- Psalm 119:105