“So Mark, where’s God taking us? What’s His plan for our lives?”
He’s leading us to green pastures, still waters, and restored souls where our cups overflow with thankfulness and His cleansing love, goodness and mercy for us.
Had these thoughts the other day. They brought me so much joy. This is where Jesus wants to take us. I hope they bless you as well as you listen to the Holy Spirit’s loving intentions in them. ☺
Be still and know that I am God. Mmmm. I think to myself, “Is any mighty, spiritual work God does in us, or thought, as beautiful and as deeply satisfying as knowing that He is God?”
To know that He is God. Wow, such calm assurance and peace. To know His stillness is so powerfully transforming and comforting.
The following can be said of anyone who takes God’s hand and follows Him…
Our children are being raised in a home where my wife and I lay our lives down for each other and love each other in word and deed. We’re learning to look up to Christ more often, to let God speak to and stop the storms that have come against us in our lives, to relinquish control of our lives to Him, the freedom of being able to cast all our cares on Jesus, to stop striving by letting Jesus lead us, to forgive, to be tender-hearted towards each other, to be grateful, to love our neighbors and others as ourselves, to remember the poor and widows.
Our sins are forgiven and our minds are being renewed to the Word of God. We’re discovering the beauty and safety of humility, and the peace of God is reigning more and more in our hearts. We’re truly finding out that God is working all things together for our good and it’s giving us a peace we never knew before – even in the face of sudden fear. Truly, our cup is running over with these rich blessings from our Father.
Surely, this is what it means to dwell in the house of the Lord. I think to myself, “Who wouldn’t want to dwell here?”
And, the precious Holy Spirit conveys to me that it only gets better and better, and that the dwelling never ends because it’s forever, and forevermore…
When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet. Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh. For the LORD shall be thy confidence (such peace and security), and shall keep thy foot from being taken.
Proverbs 3:24-26
The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
Jeremiah 31:3
Still – There’s no place like home.
God bless,
Mark