Good day all. I hope that this finds
everyone doing well as today is definitely a beautiful day. I apologize for not
having blogged in a few days, but as I have stated, I have not been feeling
well and especially so after the procedure this time. I couldn’t figure it out
as I had never had this problem but I knew that for a reason this problem did
happen. I saw it as just another one of the storms of life that hit me. I have
been very tired and very weak since Thursday. I could not figure out the
reasoning for all the complications as it had never happened before, but then
things begin to fall into place. As I finally come to realize last night, I now
know why all this had to happened. First off, I had tried to get back on my
feet to quickly….I thought I was strong enough to handle things when in truth,
I was still very weak. The second reason was that this was God’s way to get me
back to work on the second book. You see, I had stopped doing what God had me
doing and was intending for me to do….work on the second book. Even though the
first one has had a slow movement on being promoted, it doesn’t mean that God
won’t take it or this second one and hit another home run when needed. As I
continue to write, I want you to think about this…..are you asking the precious
Lord for a closer walk? Do you feel you are strong enough to take on day to day
issues or are you weak enough to admit to the heavenly Father, that you to need
help or a way to be motivated?
In society today we are faced with many storms of life. We can be going
along and all of a sudden something hits us like a barrel of bricks. Many of us
tend to think that we are big and strong; not needing anyone’s help. Then there
are those who look at it and admit that we are too weak to go on with what is
taking place. Take for instance, something as small as a flat tire to something
as large as cancer and death or even something like this procedure I had done.
We ask God, why…..why did this have to happen to me? Now I don’t know about
anyone else, but each time I ask this question, I am struck with the same
answer, "Why my son.” I then realize how weak I am and that He is the strongest
of anyone to handle these daily issues. When we ask for God to do something in
our lives, He sometimes has to weaken and slow us down in order to get the
things done that He wants us to do. In the second book of Corinthians, Paul has
now addressed the church of Corinth for a second time. Paul is now moving back
and forth between discouragement and despair and overjoy. In Chapter twelve he
describes how he feels in his "storms” of life. He states:
10- "That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses,
in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in
difficulties. For
when I am weak, then I am
strong.
Paul is explaining that when the "storms”
of life happen, he delights because he may be weak, but because of Christ being
in his life, he is at his strongest. When he endures the hardships,
persecutions, and difficulties, he knows God is there and that it is all
happening for a reason. We all need to be as such and understand that when
something does happen that seems bad or not in our schedules, that we may see
it as a weakness but in truth with God, it makes us stronger. We are sometimes
led to do things that God wants us to do and may be have started, but then for
some reason, we end up stopping. Finally in closing, I ask you this question….when
the "storms of life” are you going to try to be the " Big, strong, brave”
person and try to handle it on your own or are you going to ask the precious
Lord, to just have a closer walk and just go with how He wants you to handle it
? I would much rather let God handle the storms and I will just go along for
the ride.
Remember that if you are interested in
having me speak to your church, school, group, or organization or you are interested
in a copy of the book, you can obtain all the information on the main page of
this website.
Please continue to pray for the second book
as I know it is what God wants from me, yet Satan is using people to discourage
me from it.
God Bless and Keep you all-
In Christ-
Marla
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