Whenever I am away from my computer, I can usually think of 50 things I could blog about, but then as I sit down to write, my good ideas evade me.
Anyways, one thing I do remember.
I was at work yesterday (I work at Mark's Work Wearhouse), and was working with a girl on her last shift. For Privacy's Sake I'll call her Courtney. So I was talking to Courtney, and asking her about her plans for the next year, and she said she wanted to move to a nearby city, but wasn't sure now "because the guy is kinda being a jerk." As we talk more, I learn the guy has an 8 year old daughter, and it just so happens that this guy is 38. Courtney is 22. Okay. "Age is just a number" she tells me. Maybe so, but what business does a 38 year old have dating a 22 year old? And I realize some people will disagree with this. But this is just my opinion. And as Courtney's dad told her after kicking her out of the house..."Courtney, it's your mistake to make."
I know the Lord intentionally places us in situations and conversations with people who need to hear truth and people who need to know love. I am blessed and humbled by the fact that God wants to use me to reach people's hearts. I have no idea if anything I said had an impact in Courtney's heart, but I trust that the Lord, who knows all hearts, and goes before us in all we do, will use me, even though I don't deserve it. I don't even deserve to know God or to talk to Him, but He takes me anyways. In spite of my downfalls.
I was able to tell Courtney not to settle. Not to take anything from a guy other than respect.
Honey, you deserve the BEST. DO NOT let a guy mistreat you, be rude to you, or take advantage of you. You are SO much better than that. You are above that. You still have your whole life ahead of you. Chose well. My heart hurts for you. It is way more worth it for you to be single, than to be in a relationship where you are mistreated and hurt. I am speaking to myself in this as I speak to you. In our world, men see women differently than the way God intended them to. Men take advantage. Not all men, but we need to be careful. I know you don't know God. I know you don't understand His love for you. But you are His princess. And whatever guy you end up with needs to know what it means to treat you as such. Don't take anything less. I know it's so easy to be emotionally invested. I know this. But LET GO. Courtney, you are valued and loved, and worth so much more than you believe. I hope you will learn this, and truly believe it from you heart. This is truth. <3
Saturday, August 31, 2013
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
time to sail.
I used to blog a lot when I was younger. Okay, I'm still pretty young. I've wanted to get back into this for some time, but there are two things that stop me.
1) Do I have anything important to say?
2) Will I actually keep up with this?
I figure I can always just delete this whole thing if it doesn't work out. It wouldn't be the first blog of mine to be deleted. Anyways, I'm just a girl who loves the Lord, wants to be used by Him, and a girl who realizes how broken, and desperate I am without Him. Just a leaking vessel really. We all know that if a boat is leaking, it is useless. Useless, yet not without potential. Useless, unless someone fixes it, and refines it. Then it sails. Sails to places no one could ever guess, on a journey no one could ever plan. So here I am, a leaking vessel, but slowly and surely, the Lord is refining me, purifying me, healing me, and taking me on the journey of a lifetime. Time to sail. ♥
"Seek the Lord while He may be found; call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to the Lord, and He will have compassion on him, and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon. 'For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,' declares the Lord. 'For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts higher than your thoughts. For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return there without watering the earth and making it bear and sprout, and furnishing seed to the sower and bread to the seater; so will My word be which goes forth from My mouth; it will not return to Me empty, without accomplishing what I desire, and without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it. For you will go out with joy and be led forth with peace; the mountains and the hills will break forth into shouts of joy before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.'" Isaiah 55:6-12 NASB
"For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you ail perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus." Philippians 1:6 NASB
Following Him is exciting stuff :)
1) Do I have anything important to say?
2) Will I actually keep up with this?
I figure I can always just delete this whole thing if it doesn't work out. It wouldn't be the first blog of mine to be deleted. Anyways, I'm just a girl who loves the Lord, wants to be used by Him, and a girl who realizes how broken, and desperate I am without Him. Just a leaking vessel really. We all know that if a boat is leaking, it is useless. Useless, yet not without potential. Useless, unless someone fixes it, and refines it. Then it sails. Sails to places no one could ever guess, on a journey no one could ever plan. So here I am, a leaking vessel, but slowly and surely, the Lord is refining me, purifying me, healing me, and taking me on the journey of a lifetime. Time to sail. ♥
"Seek the Lord while He may be found; call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to the Lord, and He will have compassion on him, and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon. 'For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,' declares the Lord. 'For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts higher than your thoughts. For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return there without watering the earth and making it bear and sprout, and furnishing seed to the sower and bread to the seater; so will My word be which goes forth from My mouth; it will not return to Me empty, without accomplishing what I desire, and without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it. For you will go out with joy and be led forth with peace; the mountains and the hills will break forth into shouts of joy before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.'" Isaiah 55:6-12 NASB
"For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you ail perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus." Philippians 1:6 NASB
Following Him is exciting stuff :)
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