Waiting Endure for a Season...

Sometimes the best things in life 

take a long time to materialize. 

~

While You Sing Over Me

Look out my heart the wind is blowing again

It´s time to batten down the broken parts

Look out my heart debris is flying around

Confusion wants to shake your solid ground

Storms may come along and winds may blow

Raging tempest will come and go

But I´ll hide in the shadow of Your wings

I´ll hide in the shadow of Your wings

And listen while You sing

I´ll hide in the shadow of Your wings

And listen while You sing over me

Sing over me (2x)

Sing over me oh Lord, sing over me...

As I´ll hide in the shadow of Your wings

And listen while You sing

I´ll hide in the shadow of Your wings

And listen while You sing over me

Look out my heart

The wind is blowing again...

Let this my motto be

Lord, help me live from day to day

In such a self-forgetful way

That even when I kneel to pray

My prayer shall be for—Others.

Refrain

Others, Lord, yes others,

Let this my motto be,

Help me to live for others,

That I may live like Thee.

Help me in all the work I do

To ever be sincere and true

And know that all I’d do for You

Must needs be done for—Others.

Refrain

Let ?Self? be crucified and slain

And buried deep: and all in vain

May efforts be to rise again,

Unless to live for—Others.

Refrain

And when my work on earth is done,

And my new work in Heav’n’s begun,

May I forget the crown I’ve won,

While thinking still of—Others.

Refrain

As children, we used to lay in bed listening to Tennessee Erie Ford sing hymns, this was one of the hymns. We listened to the same cassette night after night, fell to sleep listening to the tape, and again for Sunday afternoon nap. He had such a rich deep voice, soothing, clear, and comforting. The tape is still our favorite, even after 20 years, whenever one of us siblings is in the dumps, you'll hear that one singing "Tennesse Erie Ford".

Looking back, I believe our thoughts and standard for life was greatly affected by the music we listened to. Today, I was feeling pointless - after all what use am I? I don't have a clear purpose or goal mapped out in front of me. I can't say "I'm getting ready for the mission field, Lord Willing, in the next year or two." I can't say "I'm striving to raise my children for the Lord, oh that they'll be saved at a young age!" I can't even say "Yes, I am so excited, we'll be starting life together, I pray I will be a wife of virtue." What can I say?

At this point, I think I wasn't so much melancoly or sad -- just confused. Then into my mind streamed these lovely words. "Lord, help me live from day to day...Let this my motto be...That I may live like Thee." The truth dawned on me. If only in my life, I can only say that my goal is to live like Him, then that is all that matters. It doesn't matter whether you fit into the previous categories: a prayerful missionary, a careful mother, or a helpful wife. It matters that you live for Him, in whatever capacity He gives you.

Lord, help me live from day to day

In such a self-forgetful way

That even when I kneel to pray

My prayer shall be for—Others.

Let this my motto be.

If you want to hear what the tune sounds like, here is the link http://cyberhymnal.org/htm/o/t/h/others.htm, and I found Tennesee Ernie Ford singing it online http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X82jlo9ngOE :)

The Lord Loved Him

I was recently struck by how many times we read in the Bible "The Lord loved him". Maybe this does not strike you as earth shattering, but I am sure it mattered greatly to the one whom the Lord loved. The Lord loved him. Powerful, enduring words that affected a man's life.

"she bare a son, and he called his name Solomon:

and the LORD loved him."

"And Solomon loved the LORD,"

2 Samuel 12:24, 1 Kings 3:3

I was thinking of this, wondering Why? Why did the Lord love Solomon. David and Bathsheba had a baby, and they named him Solomon (meaning "peace".) Then with no further explanation, God records for us that he loved Solomon -- even when Solomon was a tiny baby. In the next verse, we even read that the Lord sent word by way of Nathan the Prophet that he (the Lord) had named the baby Jedidiah (meaning "beloved of Jehovah".)

Why did the Lord love this little baby? Would Solomon grow up to please the Lord in all things? Was Solomon of a pure heritage? No, we know neither of these reasons to be the case. David and Bathsheba's story is one of sad betrayal and murder. Solomon's story started and ended well (see Ecclesiastes), but the middle was not well. (1 Kings 11).

No, however way I turned this over, I had to admit: The Lord loved him. Period. No explanation, no reason why, simply a pure truth. The Lord loved him.

I couldn't help but think how we complicate matters of love. Needing to know Why when someone tells us they love us, needing to know when they first loved us, needing to know again and again that they still love us. Maybe it should be enough that we are loved?

I am glad God doesn't give us long explanations or many little reasons. I am glad God loves us. Purely and Simply Loved.

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. Jer 31:3

No One Understands Like Jesus

No one understands like Jesus;

He's a Friend beyond compare.

Meet Him at the throne of mercy;

He is waiting for You there.

No one under-stands like Jesus

When the days are dark and grim.

No one is so near, so dear as Jesus;

Cast Your every care on Him.

No understands like Jesus;

Every woe He sees and feels.

Tenderly He whispers comfort,

And the broken heart He heals.

No one understands like Jesus

When the foes of life assail.

You should never be discouraged;

Jesus cares and will not fail.

No one understands like Jesus

When you falter on the way.

Though you fail Him, sadly fail Him,

He will pardon You today.

I Can Trust You

Rebecca St. James' Song I Can Trust You

I Can Trust You

I often struggle with letting go and trusting, this song has long been a favorite and a good reminder to trust and let go of the desire to control.

World Without End

The confidence we can have in our God, if we but only place our trust in Him.

Life has a way of repeating itself, and I have been down this road before.... to my shame, I have traveled it again... the Road of Fear. "Change" has a way of looming up in front of you, casting a big scary shadow over the foot path. How I tremble at that shadow. How I should not tremble, I have no cause to fear. To night, I was gently reminded to trust.

Isa 45:17-19

...ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.

For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens;

God himself that formed the earth and made it;

he hath established it,

he created it not in vain,

he formed it to be inhabited:

I am the LORD; and there is none else.

I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth:

I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain:

I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.

Nothing the Lord does is in vain, everything is with purpose. When He establishes, it is forever.

Ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded -- World with out end.

Finding

Seek the LORD and his strength,

seek his face continually.

1 Ch 16:11

But they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.

Ps 34:10

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy;

break up your fallow ground:

for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.

Hos 10:12

Behold, I go forward,

but he is not there;

and backward,

but I cannot perceive him:

On the left hand, where he doth work,

but I cannot behold him:

he hideth himself on the right hand,

that I cannot see him:

But

He knoweth

the way that I take:

when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

Job 23:8-10

Seek the LORD, and ye shall live.

Amos 5:6

Evening Meditations

With Nicole's wedding behind me, I am hoping to be more regular in both my studies and blog. Life can change so quickly, and mine has flown by so fast these past 3 months that it seems like one long day. I will post pictured of the wedding, when I have a moment next week.

Tonight I was reading 1 Chronicles 21:15. I found it interesting it is yet another time when the Lord decided to destroy and "repented him". In this case, He had the angel stop destroying.

I like the verse because you see a little glimpse into the Lord's thoughts.

"And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite."

Two things struck me. 1. The Lord was standing watching. 2. the angle didn't destroy everything in an instant, it was a movement.

I Rich Man Am I

I loved this song as a kid....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNRyRD2TD5U

Forever, O Lord

Our sense of time seems so solidified and somewhat daunting, as if tomorrow were a persistent creature always about to pounce yet never appearing. So often we see 10 years as a long inconceivable time frame, casting a huge shadow, because 10 leads to 20, 20 to 50, 50 to 100.

And then time ends.....or so we think, and act, always rushing.

I love how God doesn't view time how we do.

God sees a day and the length of that unit is irrelevant, it might have been a 1,000 years.

God sees a 1,000 years, and it might have been only a day.

I wonder what God sees when He looks at a week, or an hour, or even a minuet. Yet, however small, He sees ever last second.

Because of this God can promise forever.

"I know that, whatsoever God doeth,

it shall be for ever:

nothing can be put to it,

nor any thing taken from it:"Ecc 3:14

Set Apart

But know that the LORD hath set apart

him that is godly for himself:

the LORD will hear when I call unto him.

Stand in awe, and sin not:

commune with your own heart upon your bed,

and be still. Selah.

Psalms 4:3,4