This is the time of year that everything seems to start groaning "Spring..." The days are growing light longer, and an intermittent warm day such as yesterday, teases us that it is coming. Today the glimpse was gone, wind and cold returned and a bit of snow covering again. We were happy for the warm day as our drive was really icy and most melted away. It definitely would have terrified my dear UPS man. He would have turned tails. Not many venture up the driveway in the winter, it is not for the faint at heart. It can take some skill even with 4 wheel drive at times. It never seems to stop the gas well tender though, they'll drive through anything. This time reminds me of the wait we have for the winter to end in the spiritual realm, awaiting the springtime, no more ice and no more tears.Today was not a stellar day for the teen and I, and although I know these years and their trials are minor and very momentary, I really need God in it. I am so weak, uncertain, unwise and self-preserving. I must have His help to make it through even these "little trials."
Like today, I was pressed to ask for strength to face a messy closet. The thing seemed like a MOUNTAIN, which of course it was not, but my vision is always skewed and I really need his vision, his strength, his help. How precious when he shows his love in concern over our small/practical stuff. A God that big cares about "my" little world. No doubt, the real mountainous trials do come and you may even be experiencing a REAL mountain now. If he cares about my closet and my teen (yes) then how much more can he help us climb the mountains. He is loving, merciful, and near in our trials. He is training me up and holding me up... He is eager to hold you up too. G'Night friends
Ephesians 3: (amp)
16May He grant you out of the rich treasury of His glory to be strengthened and reinforced with mighty power in the inner man by the [Holy] Spirit [Himself indwelling your innermost being and personality].17May Christ through your faith [actually] dwell (settle down, abide, make His permanent home) in your hearts! May you be rooted deep in love and founded securely on love,
18That you may have the power and be strong to apprehend and grasp with all the saints [God's devoted people, the experience of that love] what is the breadth and length and height and depth [of it];
19[That you may really come] to know [practically, through experience for yourselves] the love of Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge [without experience]; that you may be filled [through all your being] unto all the fullness of God [may have the richest measure of the divine Presence, and become a body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself]!
