What flows in must flow out.

One more day comes to a slow finish and if I am honest, no I did not do all I was meant to.
My talents...lets see, mmmm think, think think,
I am hospitable, at least I used to be.
I am a good event organizer, at least I used to be.
I am creative, at least I used to be.
I am a people person, at least I used to be.
What has happened that I let these talents, these passions, slowly wither up like the hanging baskets in my front yard? Vibrant with color and life in the spring now dry, useless and ugly hanging there to be taken away and forgotten.
We had a speaker tell us about the Dead Sea. It is called the Dead Sea because it is dead. It is dead because what flows in, has no way to flow out. It just flows in and evaporates. My life...

I have started a come back from the Dead Sea my life has become.
The Lord has started new life in my heart, new growth for the person I should be.
I am going to say YES.
Here it is, yes to hospitality, yes to people, yes to the Lord.  What has been flowing in must begin to flow out.
Flowing In:

"He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? "Micah 6:8

Flowing In:

⁹ Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. ¹⁰ Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor. ¹¹ Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord. ¹² Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. ¹³ Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality.
¹⁴ Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them. ¹⁵ Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. ¹⁶ Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly.  Never be wise in your own sight. ¹⁷ Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. ¹⁸ If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all."  Romans 12:9-18

Waiting to be Radical

Yesterday I finished a “radical step of obedience”.   Little Mr. moved with his parents who will attend University. I said yes to caring for him, I obeyed and it seems like a small thing but for me and this family it was important.

Today I am sitting in my white space waiting on God. What will He ask of me?

What will I respond?

Will He ask me to minister to girls who have an unexpected and maybe unwanted pregnancy?

Will He ask me to encourage parents going through a black cloud with a prodigal child?

Will I be asked to encourage women with mother hearts but no child to hold?

Will it be something I have never dreamed of but will fulfill me because it is EXACTLY what I have been created to do?

Whatever it is I pray I will be a “Yes” girl and I will honor Him in all I do.

Here is where I start:

                     Pray this:

   Create in me a clean heart, O God,

and renew a right spirit within me.

  Cast me not away from your presence,

and take not your Holy Spirit from me.

  Restore to me the joy of your salvation,

and uphold me with a willing spirit  Psalm 51:10-12   

           Do this :

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, 

and all these things will be added to you.  Matthew 6:33

   

            Live this:

love the Lord your God with all your heart 

and with all your soul and with all your strength 

and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” Luke 10:27

           And this:

Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name; 

  worship the Lord in the splendor of holiness. Psalm 29:2

                                                            Waiting...