There are themes of both encouragement and despair in these passages. We are told about the promises of God, reassuring us that the Lord is just and faithful. But everyone has those moments of tiredness and sorrow, when it seems as though we have been abandoned to deal with our suffering alone. Yet Oswald Chambers writes, "We can only be used by God after we allow Him to show us the deep, hidden areas of our own character." These secret places are often only revealed in the midst of grief and trials. We have to see our own shortcomings before we can release them and allow Christ to enter in and make our hearts His. God knows how low we sometimes must fall in order to open ourselves to His Spirit and workings.
Take heart, for He is sovereign.
About Me
- Kirsten Hitchcock
- My life: The uncharted territories of stage three. // blog portrait courtesy of simplybimages.ca
Saturday, January 12, 2013
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Tuesday talkin'.
IT'S THAT TIME OF THE MONTH AGAIN. Yup. Tiiiiiime to write a blog post. Not that I'm even blogging every month. It's been sporadic. And yes, I bring it up every time I post. Please accept my humble, yet profuse, apologies. Sorrysorrysorry.
Islanders are funny. Soooo it started snowing today at about 1 pm. At 3:08 I received an email stating that our campus is closed due to SEVERE WEATHER CONDITIONS. It's laughable, really. An inch of snow equates school closure here. To be fair, our snow is rather wet and slippery and it can freeze and break two thousand student's legs, leading to numerous lawsuits and unhappy kiddos. Buuuut it's still just an inch of snow. Maybe I'm a bit sad because I have no classes today anyways so nothing was cancelled for me :( If it sticks, I'll have another free day tomorrow though!
Hah. And this is the education I pay for.
Although, as some of you have found out..... I will no longer be attending this school after this semester is done. I'm gonna go to NEW ZEALAND! I want to do a YWAM, and travel a biiiiit and blah blah blah, just exciting stuff like that. It's a bit stressful though, I want to go to the right YWAM base and I need money for it and I don't know what to do the year AFTER all that.... The answer is so obvious though. Which is almost worse...
Prayer. Duh. Faith. DUH. Alls I gotta do is BELIEEEEVE. Things will work out.
YEAH, well why is it so stressful then? Huh huh huuuuhhh? The key to being able to have faith in times of stress and trials is to pray. Not some sort of piddly, "Oh hey God, I want you to work everything out, and when it does, I'll drop you a thank you note." We need to invest our time in some serious one-on-one relationship-building prayer. Yes, God already knows what's up. TALK TO HIM ABOUT IT ANYWAYS. And liiiiiisten. Abide in Him. Be still and rest in His presence.
But hey, I'm not preaching at you. I'm fully aware that I need to bring this into my life as a permanent habit, trust me. I am working on it and I'm SO excited to see how things pan out in the future. God is good. All the time. I'll leave you with a quote from the devotional I'm doing right now:
"I used to think that prayer should have the first place and teaching the second. I now feel it would be truer to give prayer the first, second and third places and teaching the fourth." -James O. Fraser
**Please let me know what I can pray for in your life, friend!
Islanders are funny. Soooo it started snowing today at about 1 pm. At 3:08 I received an email stating that our campus is closed due to SEVERE WEATHER CONDITIONS. It's laughable, really. An inch of snow equates school closure here. To be fair, our snow is rather wet and slippery and it can freeze and break two thousand student's legs, leading to numerous lawsuits and unhappy kiddos. Buuuut it's still just an inch of snow. Maybe I'm a bit sad because I have no classes today anyways so nothing was cancelled for me :( If it sticks, I'll have another free day tomorrow though!
Hah. And this is the education I pay for.
Although, as some of you have found out..... I will no longer be attending this school after this semester is done. I'm gonna go to NEW ZEALAND! I want to do a YWAM, and travel a biiiiit and blah blah blah, just exciting stuff like that. It's a bit stressful though, I want to go to the right YWAM base and I need money for it and I don't know what to do the year AFTER all that.... The answer is so obvious though. Which is almost worse...
Prayer. Duh. Faith. DUH. Alls I gotta do is BELIEEEEVE. Things will work out.
YEAH, well why is it so stressful then? Huh huh huuuuhhh? The key to being able to have faith in times of stress and trials is to pray. Not some sort of piddly, "Oh hey God, I want you to work everything out, and when it does, I'll drop you a thank you note." We need to invest our time in some serious one-on-one relationship-building prayer. Yes, God already knows what's up. TALK TO HIM ABOUT IT ANYWAYS. And liiiiiisten. Abide in Him. Be still and rest in His presence.
But hey, I'm not preaching at you. I'm fully aware that I need to bring this into my life as a permanent habit, trust me. I am working on it and I'm SO excited to see how things pan out in the future. God is good. All the time. I'll leave you with a quote from the devotional I'm doing right now:
"I used to think that prayer should have the first place and teaching the second. I now feel it would be truer to give prayer the first, second and third places and teaching the fourth." -James O. Fraser
**Please let me know what I can pray for in your life, friend!
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