FYI: Posts will be sparse around here until I replace my laptop.... Coming back to work after Christmas break apparently was too hard and it quit on me!
(Remembering God's faithfulness to me this past year in this post--something I started writing back in February.)
In the morning I see His face,
In the evening His form I trace,
In the darkness His voice I know;
I see Jesus everywhere I go.
It has been one month and a week. Sometimes it feels like that year was simply a dream and it never happened at all. Other days this feels like a dream and I'll simply wake up and head to barn chores.
(Just a glimpse of God's many blessings to me this past week)
1017: a weekend at home
1018: homemade bread
1019: box lunches
1020: God's Sovereignty
1021: His promise to forgive me and cleanse me from all unrighteousness
1022: daily all sufficient grace
1023: laughter with friends
It was a simple question, and it went around the table with each one giving a simple answer:
"heavy metal"
"all kinds"
"classical and Christian rap"
"Christian contemporary"
"original music. You know, not the repetitive stuff like all the Christian music"
But then it was my turn, and I couldn't give a simple answer to the simple question,
"What kind of music do you like to listen to?"
Within this question there lies a deeper one--
"who do you serve?"
Proverbs 3:5-8
Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD, and turn away from evil. It will be healing to your flesh and refreshment to your bones.
’Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus,
Just to take Him at His word;
Just to rest upon His promise;
Just to know, Thus saith the Lord.
Jesus, Jesus, how I trust Him,
How I’ve proved Him o’er and o’er,
Jesus, Jesus, Precious Jesus!
O for grace to trust Him more.
O how sweet to trust in Jesus,
Just to trust His cleansing blood;
Just in simple faith to plunge me,
’Neath the healing, cleansing flood.
Yes, ’tis sweet to trust in Jesus,
Just from sin and self to cease;
Just from Jesus simply taking
Life, and rest, and joy, and peace.
I’m so glad I learned to trust Thee,
Precious Jesus, Savior, Friend;
And I know that Thou art with me,
Wilt be with me to the end.
Jeremiah 17:5-10
Thus says the LORD: "Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the LORD. He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land. "Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose trust is the LORD. He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit." The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? "I the LORD search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds."
