So I got to the prayer room this morning and realized that I had left my journal on my bedside table. At first I thought that I could go the whole morning without writing anything down, but of course, as soon as Jon Thurlow starts playing it opens up a myriad of thoughts that need to written down or I will forget half of them. So I decided to use my laptop as my journal this morning, and seeing as it's as easy as "copy + paste" I thought I would share my journal entry on the blog this morning:
“No reservations, No walls
But just and open door in my heart to You
I want to give all that’s inside of my heart
I want to give all that’s inside of my heart to you” (Jon Thurlow)
“I want to give ALL that’s inside of my heart to You” - What a great truth! Jesus knows the depths of my heart, my sin, my struggle, my joy, my love and affection for Him. He knows it all, and He knows exactly what to do with each one.
He takes my sin and forgives it - throwing it into the sea of forgetfulness.
He takes my struggle - encouraging my with His gentle words, His strength and power
He takes my joy - savoring it as fruit grown by His Spirit, declaring that it is good
He takes my affection - delighting in the fragrance of my heart as a pleasing offering
He takes it all, and He takes it perfectly! Administering justice and mercy upon every piece of my heart with gentleness, kindness, love and delight because His heart is towards me. It is the beauty of this man that opens the door of my heart to trust Him. Tearing down every hinderence, every objection.
“I want to give ALL that’s inside of my heart, to You”
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Every invitation of the Lord comes with the inherent promise that He will provide the means by which to attain that which He has called me to.
I have been blessed with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places (Eph 1:3)
“Husband’s love your wives as Christ loved the church” is more than a noble idea - it is the reality that Christ sees for my life. He has called me to it, and therefore, has promised (assured) me that I will, through a life of obedience to His Spirit, come into maturity and take hold of it. Praise God!
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The Father entrusted the dream of His heart to His Son, trusting in another to bring His dream into reality. I feel that the Lord is inviting me to enter into that same relationship - entrusting the dream of my heart to Rhonda. Not that I am to sit back and wait for her to do what I want her to do, but rather, to trust that I will go as she goes. As the Lord unlocks her heart, it will release mine to minister. Essentially, it is like giving her the keys to the gates, as she goes so will I go. She is to be the gatekeeper and I am going to have to trust that God will be faithful to bring His good word to completion in and through both of us. After all, He created both of us and the good works prepared in advance for us to do AND He brought us together in marriage.
Lord help me to trust that you will do everything you have planned, and that You will do it within the covenant of marriage that you have brought us into.
I can do EVERYTHING that God has asked me do WITHIN the life that He has given me. The blessings of life (marriage, children, family, job, body) are given by God and do not need to be discarded to attain relationship with God, they are the MEANS by which He wants to refine our devotion to Him.
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So there you have it!
I'm on my back to to the apartment now to see how 'me ladies' (to be said with an Irish accent) are doing. I hope you all have a great day and would love to hear how things are in your area of the world.
Jon
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