What it takes for us to be FAITHFUL

I can't go in to detail tonight, will have to do that tomorrow.....
but basically we found out last Monday, through a routine colonoscopy, that my dad had colon cancer. Well, he had surgery this past Friday and the pathology report came back today. So he had adenocarcinoma as shown by the biopsy before surgery. They did the surgery and all the pathology from the surgery has come back with NO CANCER! The doctor told me this morning that in his 10 years of practice and his internship/residency before, he has never seen anything like this and is not sure what to make of it. I told him I understood completely..prayers and a miracle. How awesome is that! He is going to have the pathologist re-run the tests and do a larger slice. OK, but GOD IS GOD!

Well, anyway, I was doing dishes this morning and had my iPod on. I have one of Chris Rice's CD's on there. (Actually have more than one...love his music), but this song came on. Of course it is an old hymn. It just sums up what I have felt all day. God is so faithful to us, and how faithful are we to him? I can answer that, usually we are as faithful as we find our current condition to need. Why doesn't he turn his back on us when we so routinely turn our backs on him only to turn to him in our time of need. I can answer that in one word...GRACE. A grace that not a one of us deserves. Thank God that he loves us more than we can ever love him........
Great is Thy faithfulness, O God my Father;
There is no shadow of turning with Thee;
Thou changest not, Thy compassions, they fail not;
As Thou hast been, Thou forever will be.

Great is Thy faithfulness!
Great is Thy faithfulness!
Morning by morning new mercies I see.
All I have needed Thy hand hath provided;
Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me!

Summer and winter and springtime and harvest,
Sun, moon and stars in their courses above
Join with all nature in manifold witness
To Thy great faithfulness, mercy and love.

Pardon for sin and a peace that endureth
Thine own dear presence to cheer and to guide;
Strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow,
Blessings all mine, with ten thousand beside!

Great is Thy faithfulness! Great is Thy faithfulness!
Morning by morning new mercies I see.
All I have needed Thy hand hath provided;
Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me!

(Thanks Lord.....for always being with me and faithful TO me) Amazing.......

Quit trying to see ahead.....

OK, i just got a new book today called "Mocha with Max" by Max Lucado. I love reading this man's work. He takes some of the most difficult of things to understand in Christian living and makes them nthe easiest to understand.

One of the biggest things that I have trouble with is letting go and trying to figure out what the next step will be. I do pretty good at giving things up to the Lord, but in just a couple of days (or hours, or minutes, maybe even seconds) I take them back. I want to know what is going to happen if I do give them up and rely on Him completely to take care of things.

Well, Mr. Lucado put it down in black-and-white for me. He says, " God isn't going to let you see the distant scene. So you might as well quit looking for it. He promises a lamp unto our feet, not a crystal ball into the future. We do not need to know what will happen tomorrow. We only need to know He leads."

OK, so I just have to believe that my Lord will take care of things. He knows what is going to happen with me and for me. He knows that he has good plans for me (Jeremiah 29:11). I just have to understand that the key to my knowledge of this is letting go.

So my journey that I need to continue....let go....give it up and don't take it back...Oh my. I am 52 years old and haven't been able to really do that yet. I have gotten much better at it in the last 3-4 years, but I'm still not there. So here I go. I am starting today to strive to let go. Trust that God, my Lord, my Saviour, will handle my stuff. And I have lots of stuff to be handled. Thanks Lord. I am starting now.