found this in my xanga from last year…
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“reading my utmost for his highest this morning…
“If our hopes seem to be experiencing disappointment right now, it simply means that they are being purified.”
…purified by a God whose desire is to glorify Himself, and to bring our hopes to a place where we have hope in Him.
oftentimes i feel that our hope in God diminishes when we start to believe that His promises to us aren’t enough or will never be fulfilled.
or that the goal set before us is unattainable
or when we don’t truely believe that He has already won.
again, another way where disappointment is only an opportunity to understand God more and to change our mindset about how He works. “
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*attn: please read Col. 3* -want some basic principles on how we should be living life? Sometimes I like it when God just says, straight up, what we should and should not be doing. bam!
I think by recognizing these, God can really transform the way we act. Psalm 51:10 “Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a loyal spirit within me.” and with that clean and purified heart we then speak/act the way we should be (”from the overflow of the heart that the mouth speaks.”)
It is so so important to be looking at these places in our lives that don’t exactly match up with what we say we believe- and then how God is wanting to change that… to have those mistakes be used for His glory. It is really a beautiful thing.
This life with God is a transformative process… we are a new creation.
Sometimes I wonder if I will ever be in a place where I feel like I am fully satisfied. I know satisfaction is found in Christ, but I just don’t think that will happen here to the complete (on earth). It feels as though there is often such a disconnect between that idea of full Satisfaction (unearthly) and then the finding of things that can keep us satiated (earthly). A child denied full knowledge for their own sake; a poor reflection as in a mirror (1 Cor. 13:12). It reminds me of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel fresco of Adam and God… seeing God, knowing He’s there, hearing His voice, feeling His presence, etc. but we can’t quite fully “reach” Him (in understanding, in His full glory, etc.) We are still running around in these bodies, living in these earthly tents (2 Cor. 5:1).
In a more transactional sense, there are oftentimes these monumental tasks that we feel that by accomplishing will somehow help us to breathe easier. We set huge expectations for how much easier and better things will be once this task is through but then, in some shock to us, life still comes-trials, more waiting, more unknown. I don’t think my underlying Peace (you know? that Current of Hope that runs through us) has been shaken lately (I just often ‘forget’ about it), but the things that lie more towards the surface, the little divots that beg to be filled with something right away, get filled and the water just slips away. As when you dig a hole in the sand and try to fill it with water, but it oftentimes just sinks away. And you keep rushing back to your water bucket to keep it filled, but it never can be.
