Proven Path Ministries

Wow…

 

One thing about blogging and tweeting and fb posting is that when I share things all the world can look back and see if I am speaking accurately… and well I can look back as well.

This time last year I wrote:

I am tired of worrying. I instead choose to cast burdens.

I am tired of stressing. I instead choose rest.
I am tired of doubting. I instead choose hope.
I am tired of fear. I instead choose love.
I am tired of jealousy. I instead choose to rejoice.
I am tired of selfish anger. I instead choose humility.
I am tired of bitterness. I instead choose forgiveness.
I am tired of ugly words. I instead choose to speak with grace.
I am tired of wringing my hands over things that are out of my hands. I instead choose to trust.
I am tired of holding on to accounts that are old and stinky and dingy and just need to hed to the shredder of forgiveness. I instead choose to remember only Him.
I am just plain old fed up with concentrating on me. I instead choose to fix my eyes on Christ.
I think I will just let everything stay in His hands in 2012 and I will stay buried and wrapped in His arms and walk when He says walk, stop when He says stop, turn when He says turn, look when He says look, speak when He says speak.  
Will I walk through more darkness?
Oh no doubt!
But I will keep holding on to Him… because I never walk through darkness alone.

Proven Path Ministries (http://s.tt/1aPhr)

 

As I look back on 2012 I realize how faithful my God has been. No I have not always been victorious in choosing rest over stress, hope over doubt, love over fear, etc… but compared to 2011 and the years before… all I can say is, wow.

God has been good.

My word for 2012 was Remember…

This past year when fears, and doubts, and frustrations, and hurts would arise and the circumstances would begin to dictate my attitude and thoughts and I would find myself reacting rather than responding, the Spirit would whisper to my heart… Remember. As I look back I can see my God’s faithfulness to not let me stay in my flesh too long… He would jerk my head quickly and remind me to look up and to see things as they really were… to see things through His eyes and not my own.

And they remembered that God was their rock,

And the Most High God their Redeemer.

Psalm 78:35

I purposed this past year to not take one Communion lightly… but to truly remember.

And when He had taken some bread and given thanks,

He broke it and gave it to them, saying,

“This is My body which is given for you;

do this in remembrance of Me.”

Luke 22:19

I think God has given me my word 2013…

Aphtharsia… pronounced af-thar-see-ah. In English this word is Incorruptible.

 Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with incorruptible love.

Ephesians 6:24

I want to love my Jesus with an incorruptible love. I want to love Him with a pure and sincere love. A love that is not tainted with selfishness. A love that doesn’t pout when I don’t get my way or don’t like my circumstances. A love that doesn’t doubt the love of my Jesus because I simply just don’t feel Him at the moment. A love that doesn’t waver in any way. An incorruptible love.

“The Rock! His work is perfect,
For all His ways are just;
A God of faithfulness and without injustice,
Righteous and upright is He.
“They have acted corruptly toward Him,
They are not His children, because of their defect;
But are a perverse and crooked generation.
“Do you thus repay the Lord,
O foolish and unwise people?
Is not He your Father who has bought you?
He has made you and established you.

Deuteronomy 32:4-6

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Do all things without grumbling or disputing; 

so that you will prove yourselves to be blameless and innocent, 

children of God above reproach

in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation,

among whom you appear as lights in the world, 

holding fast the word of life,

so that in the day of Christ I will have reason to glory

because I did not run in vain nor toil in vain.

Philippians 2:14-16

We live in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation.

We live among those who are corrupt because they have acted corruptly toward their Creator God.

I am His child… therefore I should love my Jesus, my God, with an incorruptible love.

I should not look, act, or react the way this generation does. How can I be the light if my light is corroded?

So 2013, I believe my word will be Aphtharsia… Incorruptible.

I don’t want to stand before my Jesus ashamed… I want to have reason to glory… I don’t want to toil in vain… I don’t want to repay the grace of my God with grumbling and disdain.

I want to love my Lord Jesus with an incorruptible love.

 

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