aaam i bluuuuuueeee...? yup. i yam a bit blue tonight.
... i got into a bit of a tiff with someone on some forums, becuase i got cranky.... i got cranky at/on/to a person who rubs me the wrong way.
it wasn't right to get mad. i apologized. it's done.
but at the same time i'm frusterated.... why, oh why, do we have personalities that just don't mesh sometimes? why is it that a person can seem SO rude.... and while everyone else successfully ignores it, i can't?
i think it comes down to having a flesh nature, having old war wounds, and maybe being the sensitive, polite canadian that i am. ;)
God always allows pricking to occur in an area we need to work on, doesn't He? and i know a huge area for me is rejection. if i feel like someone's mocking me, watch out. if i feel like someone's putting me down, watch out.
i am thankful that God uses friends - and potential friends - to mold me, shape me, polish me.... as iron sharpens iron.... i'm thankful, even tho it's not fun.
today i was sick, spent the whole day sprawled out in front of the computator.... maybe i been online too long, cuz i'm drained, mentally, emotionally..... i feel a bit messed. i don't seem to be able to extend grace towards others when i feel like this.
and that's how He brings us to Himself - we run dry, we come to Him. He redeems even a dreary day like today. oh, how i love my Jesus.
time to go spend some time at His feet!
the goal: to focus this fuzzy, nut-bucket life and walk on Him - and on Him alone
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
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"The Spirit never loosens where the Word binds; the Spirit never justifies where the Word condemns; the Spirit never approves where the Word disapproves; the Spirit never blesses where the Word curses." —Thomas Brooks
"God receives none but those who are forsaken, restores health to none but those who are sick, gives sight to none but the blind, and life to none but the dead. He does not give saintliness to any but sinners, nor wisdom to any but fools. In short: He has mercy on none but the wretched and gives grace to none but those who are in disgrace. Therefore no arrogant saint, or just or wise man can be material for God, neither can he do the work of God, but he remains confined within his own work and makes of himself a fictitious, ostensible, false, and deceitful saint, that is, a hypocrite." --Martin Luther (W.A. 1.183ff)
i will not let You go: "Jacob's sense of his total debility and utter defeat is now the secret of his power with his friendly Vanquisher. God can overthrow all the prowess of the self-reliant, but He cannot resist the earnest entreaty of the helpless." --Albert Barnes
i will not let You go: "Jacob's determination did not flow from his strength, it flowed from his weakness." --Charles Leiter
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