Memory Verse: Psalms 26:2 NIV
Test me, O LORD, and try me, examine my heart and my mind.
Assignment: This week I want you to do something for someone else. Do you have a neighbor that needs you? Do you know an elderly person or single mom that could use you? What about the homeless? Pack even one single sack lunch and give it to someone in need. Do you know someone in blogland that is struggling right now and could use a note from you about how much you care? Pray about this. Let God put on your heart the perfect thing for you to do for another. Now, here is the kicker…I DO NOT want you to post about what you do. Whatever you choose to do is between you and God. Our rewards are in heaven, not here on earth, Mathew 6:1. I want you to post about how doing this “act” made you feel. Was stepping out of your comfort zone in this area as hard as you thought it might be? Could you see the gratefulness in their eyes? Hear it in their voice? Tell it from their typing? Do you think you might make doing things like this a more regular part of your time? If this is an area that you are already active in, tell us how you feel this has impacted your life.
This has been a hard subject for me this week as my walk with God is a little farther then it should be right now. The timing couldn't be better. Just three weeks ago God told me to do something that I had the hardest time wrapping my head around. I wont mention names but I feel that for you to understand what I am going to talk about I have to tell you what God told me to do. He told me to pay someones weekly fee of 50 cents. I fought with it in a major way. How do you tell someone that you want to pay that little bit for them each week. How do you get them to agree, how do you, how do you, how do you...so this was where I had to get over MYSELF and ask God why. He of course told me to look at the bigger picture, the total of that 50 cents a week. I then went to the person and was shocked that her answer was "If that is what God told you to do, I can't get in the way. You don't have to but I understand that I have to back down.
This is where I had to search why God asked me to do this. It is plain and simple. I haven't been searching Him, lately. I haven't been spending time with Him. I had gone away from Him. He knows that I understand that we have to obey His voice to keep hearing it. If I go into the bookstore and pick up a book and He tells me "Don't by that book!!!" but I do. The next time I go back He says "Don't buy that book!!"(this time His voice isn't so loud) Then the next time I venture into the bookstore I hear a whisper, "don't buy that book", each time I chose not to obey, His voice got quieter until I don't hear Him anymore. He was trying to get me back to hearing Him and obeying Him.
This weeks assignment has been a timely one for me. It has made me become even more aware of where I am and where I need to go.
In the end it also turns out that I was helping that person even more then I could have ever realized.
This has made me realize that I have to find my peace again. That I have to walk back to the Creator and all the wonderful things that he has planned for me. I have to place Him first in my life again.
James 2:10 (NKJV) For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all.
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