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Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart Be acceptable in Your sight, O LORD, my strength and my Redeemer.~Psalms 19:14
Have you ever prayed for something and it happens, but then it’s not all you expected it to be? Well over the years I’ve found myself in this situation once or twice and it’s left me second guessing my decisions. You pray things like, “God use me to do your will,” and as a result you go through pain, suffering or even rejection along the way. Then you begin to think maybe, I should have prayed for the painless shortcut route, but what I’ve learned over the years is nothing worth having comes easy our without some sacrifice. There will always be self sacrifice with God because in order to be more like him, you must die to self. I often pray this scripture because along time ago I asked God to use me for his glory, so when I write or speak to people it’s my desire to give God glory and that usually means walking a very narrow path. However there are someday that I just want to be Kay when people expect Jesus, and when your expecting Jesus, Kay maybe a little more than you can handle. So on social media I have personal pages and company pages, separation of church and state if you will. I try to keep our brand strictly what God gives me to say and express myself a little freer on my page. It is a heavy burden to be a mouthpiece for God, especially on those days when everything is going as planned and you just want to tell it like it is. But God’s wisdom says, “people cannot handle it, so you take a different path. I always want people to hear me and my heart when I share things information, but it’s important that when it’s God’s turn you give him the floor. Who would have thought that being yourself could back fire, but everything has its price, timing and place the trick is to be present enough to understand it. Walking with God grants you an influence over people, that creates an awareness that what you say matters. Influence is something that can be used for good or evil. Knowing that people follow you and really hear what you say adds another layer of responsibility when your goal is to love people. You don’t want to lead anyone astray or cause further damage, so you become more mindful and tell God instead of sharing your deepest thought and feelings with people. Often being who God’s called you to be may not be glamorous or gain you a million followers but it has its rewards. A godly life is often lonely, leaving you with a very small circle of friends, but the peace that it yields is priceless. A godly life does not require perfection, but progress. Be quick to listen, ready to forgive, slow to anger and open to give and receive love. Best, Kay
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11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.~Ecclesiastes 3:11 (ESV) I remember reading somewhere that patience was a virtue and I thought just what does that mean. Surely my virginity is not tied to being patience🤣? So I looked it up and one definition said virtue is a quality considered morally good or desirable in a person; which lead me to consider how people we care for know better but choose not to do better. To watch potential wasted is truly a difficult thing and to realize that the people you care about know better and yet choose not to do better is often mind boggling, or just plan heartbreaking! Often we find ourselves in situations or in relationships with people that have the potential to be great but for one reason or another they’ve decided to go a different route. This just seems to be a normal occurrence in life and everyone I know is dealing with it in one form or another. Maybe you have a loved one that has not realized their full potential, and no matter what you say or do they continue on the same destructive path. Or you have a dream and no matter how much you work on things it just don’t seem to go right. Although everything you see and feel is contrary to your desires you just have to stand and believe God. I know it’s difficult to watch the people you love self destruct. Often I compare it to watching a bad horror movie, when you know what’s going to happen and you find yourself yelling at the TV. You know they cannot hear you but you do it anyway. Or when you watch your favor movie and you pray that it ends differently. It’s that same hope of a better outcome you hold for that person or project you love. If they mess up 100 you still believe that 101 will be different. And although you hope for better there are still somethings you have to do to support them differently. We can not be enablers or continue to be fixers. Sometimes we have to let go and watch the bad movie to the end, letting them find their way. So what can we do? We can pray. I truly believe prayer changes things. What do you pray for? You pray for God’s covering, protection as they go through, spiritual awakening and for deliverance from whatever is keeping them stuck in brokenness. I pray their eyes be opened to God’s truth of who they really are and that they find a better more exciting way of doing things. So on today no matter what that dark situation looks like keep hoping and believing for better. Scripture say it only takes a mustard seed of faith to move mountains, so trust and believe for better. Best, Kay 9 I say to God, my rock: "Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? 10 As with a deadly wound in my bones, my adversaries taunt me, while they say to me all the day long, "Where is your God? ~Psalms 42:9-10 (ESV)
Just about everyone of us has been in situation that have made us bitter with someone. Someone else's actions or in action has caused us to be in a predicament that we just did not want to be in and as a result someone had to take the blame. Although it seems as if it is much easier to blame others and remain bitter, its not always as easy to examine your role in your affliction or place blame were it truly belongs, with you. Don't get me wrong people do things that hurt us all the time and bitterness may even be justified; but what we must all consider it that the decision to remain bitter forfeit your power to enjoy life. We waste energy holding on to somethings that we can not change and in most cases the other person goes on living, unbothered by our bitterness. I have spent years holding grudges against people and when I finally got up the nerve to deal with them the other person did not even remember this thing I have been clinging to for years. Until this day I have never understood why we choose to place blame and bitterness before we get to self examination and change. We find it easier to be angry at someone else before looking at our role in the situation. The truth is every action has an equal reaction. As I look back over my life, 80% of the situations that I choose to remain bitter over or not to forgive were ones where I was not free of guilt. Whether it be choosing the wrong friends, giving up my control in a situation, or just holding people to higher standard than I should have. I choose to be bitter rather than deal with my poor decisions and coping practices. It's coming down to the realization that the only behavior you have control over is your own. We can not change other and without God's help we cannot change ourselves. Bitterness is defined as an anger and disappointment at being treated unfairly; resentment. As believers in Christ we must grow beyond these fleshly emotions and own our responsibility in these situations. There will always be thing that we can be bitter about but lets choose joy. Don't allow the enemy a foothold into our destiny. It's human to be angry but its godly to let go and evolve. Blessings, Kay |
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