I am learning so much about receiving right now. It is not the easiest thing! For most of my adult life I have had what I need and more. Sometimes I am on the red line and/or below but I always find my way around. I have always had a hard time receiving things from others. However the Lord has given me a new picture.
If we are a piece of land and the Lord is water. He pours into us, sometimes through the Word, other people, gifts... etc. If we give out and give out without ever receiving what he is pouring into us, we will soon have nothing to give. Many times he uses the people in our lives to pour into our land. We can either choose to not receive it and we will dry up, or take it and create a reservoir or channel.
A reservoir has one inlet and an outlet that is usually shut off. It's role is to keep the water in, to save it. A channel takes the water and pushes it back out to go somewhere else.
These past few months I have received more then ever. Through this time, I am being challenged to give more of myself - through time, money, ability. I do not want to be a reservoir which holds all that I receive but a channel which is able to receive and pour back out to others.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Sunday, October 3, 2010
A cozy start
Today is one of the few days in Central Oregon where the sun has not come out yet. I sit here with a warm cup of tea, still in my pajama's remembering a time when I use to write, often. Looking back through old journals inspired me. So here goes another season of typing out my thoughts.
Psalms 34:1 "I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth."
This is my desire. That my life would reflect the Lord at all times and that I would praise his name continually. This blog, my hope, will do that though the scribblings of my everyday thinking. I hope to look back on it someday and see what the Lord has done.
Today's Goal: Do one thing at a time.
"The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is, on the contrary, born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else - we are the busiest people in the world." Eric Hoffer
Psalms 34:1 "I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth."
This is my desire. That my life would reflect the Lord at all times and that I would praise his name continually. This blog, my hope, will do that though the scribblings of my everyday thinking. I hope to look back on it someday and see what the Lord has done.
Today's Goal: Do one thing at a time.
"The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is, on the contrary, born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else - we are the busiest people in the world." Eric Hoffer
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