Psalm 100
The Message (MSG)
A Thanksgiving Psalm
100
1-2 On your feet now—applaud God!
Bring a gift of laughter,
sing yourselves into his presence.
3
Know this: God is God, and God, God.
He made us; we didn’t make him.
We’re his people, his well-tended sheep.
4
Enter with the password: “Thank you!”
Make yourselves at home, talking praise.
Thank him. Worship him.
5
For God is sheer beauty,
all-generous in love,
loyal always and ever.
10 days until we leave for Uganda.
Some things have been "changing" around here for our family.
I often just wonder at God's timing on some things, but then it always brings me right back to Him and total dependence on Him.
He loves us enough to want us to look only to Him for our security and our provision and our joy. Because He is the only true source of those things.
We were told very recently by a wise man, "Do NOT lose your joy in the Lord". I think there is danger in losing your joy in the Lord....So for a few days I was feeling a little "beat down" and now I have the joy of the Lord back.
I'm constantly impressed and amazed at the body of Christ....so I put a few requests on facebook of things we could bless Redeemer House kids with and the outpouring was instant and huge.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE God's people.
They are just good family.
No questions about the requests....other than the really super fun ones....like, "Are you bringing home any beautiful Ugandan children?" WELLLLLLLLL, not to my knowledge, but we are OPEN OPEN to WHATEVER (don't tell Charlie)....I have learned to just let God tell him stuff like that and that way it just saves us some tough conversations.
Shhhhhhut it and pray is my motto. *well at least I try* hehe
We have lost control of our lives several years ago...of which we never really had control, but we thought we did. Now we realize that we have no control and it is a good feeling to submit to the Truth, but it also opens us up to more change and crazy things.
It scares and excites me to go to Uganda. I totally trust that this is the path the Lord has laid out for us and I totally believe He has some exciting plans for us. A few things have unfolded and I already can jump up and down with a big fat praise to Jesus.
2 comments:
YAYAY!!! Reckless abandon Sister. :]
LOVE, love, love your posts! Love the motto (though I have a hard time living it), love letting God talk to Charlie (though that's hard too...what if I don't talk to him about it...but just show him other people's blog posts ...), love that you recognized that you weren't in control! (Clint and I were laughing, the other day, about those old "God is my co-pilote" bumper stickers. Yeah, right! God is the pilot, the plane, the air current, and the sky...) Rock on, sister...I love watching your journey!
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