When Others Judge My Broken Heart

by ObtainingMercy, posted in A Door of Hope, How Great is Our God, Just My Thoughts

[67] Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.
[68] Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes.
[69] The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.
[70] Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law.
[71] It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.

“It is a rather humbling thing when God begins to break us.  Sometimes the very thing that God uses to make us good Christians is the thing that everybody else will sit in judgment of.”

~ Dennis Corle from Weathering the Storms of Life

If God is working in your life…let Him work!  Don’t be embarrassed by what He is doing, even if He is chastening you.  That chastening work, when you respond to it properly, will make you more like Christ.  Ignore what others say, and what their opinions are of your brokenness.

Let Christ work to make you more like Himself, that He can draw others to Himself, through the light that is shining out from your broken vessel.

All that He is = All that you Need

by ObtainingMercy, posted in A Door of Hope, How Great is Our God

He is everything you need.

He is healing to the sick.

He’s sight to the blind.

He’s life to the dead.

He’s salvation to the lost and forgiveness to the fallen.

He’s rest to the weary.

He’s peace to the troubled heart.

He’s hope to the hopeless.

He’s love to the unlovely.

He’s deliverance to the captive.

He’s grace to the broken heart.

He’s everything thing I need in crisis.

Nothing takes Him by surprise.

There is nothing He can’t handle.

He is everything I need.

~ Weathering the Storms of Life by Dennis Corle

Love notes

by ObtainingMercy, posted in Uncategorized

Does the Lord ever put a little blessing in your life?  Just a little something that you weren’t expecting, and something that you know was directly from His hand?

He does that for me occasionally.  I think it’s usually when I’m at a particularly hard spot, and I am trusting Him, despite the circumstances; but my faith is weak and He knows it.  So, He drops something into my every day life that is just short of miraculous.

And it probably wouldn’t be significant to anyone else, or maybe it wouldn’t even seem like something God would do.

But that’s how I know it’s just for me!

I have a favorite necklace.  It’s a sterling chain and a round disk with my monogram.  I won it from a blog giveaway, believe it or not! 🙂

Recently, after coming home from church, I removed the chain and realized the charm disk was gone.  It’s a tiny little thing.  I did look around my room and over the path I’d taken into the house; but I didn’t find it and basically totally dismissed it from my mind.

I knew I’d never find such a tiny piece of silver in my house.  And I wasn’t as diligent as the woman in the Bible who swept her entire house to look for it either!

Well, today, Doug drove home at lunch time to pick up the checkbook.  I took it out to him when he pulled in the drive.  As I was coming back in the house, I caught just a glimpse of something under the back of my recliner.

Guess what it was!

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Yep, my monogram charm.  Just laying there.  Not damaged at all.

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I know beyond a shadow of a doubt, that was the Lord speaking to me today, in His still small voice, “Be patient.  I’ve got this.  If I can protect and reveal such a tiny piece of jewelry to you, I can take care of everything else too.”  Not audibly, of course, but I felt the message deep in my heart.

He is such a good God.  I am in awe and amazed by His love for me.

Father’s Day 2015

by ObtainingMercy, posted in Blessings, How Great is Our God

I keep starting to write something about Doug for Father's Day, & words fail me. But I feel like he deserves something because Isaac will never be able to tell him "Happy Father's Day" or buy him a goofy tie or a cool t-shirt or a mushy card.

I feel that Doug is the most perfect picture of what God the Father does for us when He adopts us into His family. We bring nothing with us, we come with lots of problems & don't even understand all that is being done on our behalf.

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But He chooses us before we even meet Him. He sits us at His table & never asks us to do anything to earn that position. He soothes us, wipes our tears, rejoices over us, clothes us, holds us when we hurt, works over us, disciplines us and loves us unconditionally.

This is what God did for me. This is what Doug does for Isaac on a daily basis. And I am just the grateful daughter of the King who gets to be a part of this great adventure.

Happy Father's Day, Doug. Isaac & I love you so much!