I really feel like God is trying to get my attention.  I am learning so many things but so far cannot process which areas need direct attention.  I suppose that is what I like to do....find the problem, and clear it up as quick as possible.  This slow process of learning is hard for me, but I feel like God is really rooting things out of my heart, and that He is doing the work and not allowing me to "clear it up" myself.  A few days ago I read about trusting in God.  I can see how I don't relinquish the issues of my heart to Him like I think I do.  The fear that grips my heart about different issues seems so big at times, so instead of giving them over to my Heavenly Father, who loves me and cares about me, I try to control them myself, build walls all around myself with the idea that it is in fact "protecting" me.  How ridiculous!  God in His mercy has such grace on me and continues to show me His truth.  It is painfully difficult to see how I grasp hold of my life, my children's lives and try to run it, when all along we are His sheep to be shepherded by His gentle, all knowing care.  Today I read about God's glory.  I am amazed and stunned at how He made us to reflect His glory!!  To think that He wants me to be like a mirror of who He is...to be as He is to others around me!  Duh!  I know that I am to be like Him...isn't that what a follower of Christ is?  Somehow it just stunned me this morning.  This glory is actually "who He is."  God's Word is just full of scriptures telling aspect of the glory of God....aspects of what God is in this world and in us. 

Isaiah 43:7 "Everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made." 

I am so amazed that He created ME--for His glory!!

Hebrews 1:3 "The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of His being, sustaining all things by His powerful Word...."

The fact that Jesus lives in ME---and all of His glory is right there inside of me.....WOW!!

I know that we "all fall short of the glory of God..." and that grieves me, but this verse gives me such hope...

2Corinthians 3:17,18 "Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.  And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord's glory, are being transformed into His likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit." 

Thank you Lord for imparting to ME...to US Your powerful glory, continuing to have grace on us, forgiving us and yet still imparting change in our hearts and increasing Your glory in us!!   God is good.....Melissa