Author: Marjorie Holmes
Women's Devotional Bible
NIV
I am GRATEFUL, God, that I have finally come to realize your purpose for me.
Just when or how this came about I can't say. It wasn't sudden and dramatic, the way it happened to Paul on the road to Damascus, or Peter Marshall with his experience on the Scottish moors.
There have been no visions, no voices, no letters written in fire upon a wall saying: "Do this." "Do that." "This is your reason for being."
No, my search for you and for the meaning you had for my life has been uncertain, groping, erratic, filled with accidents, false goals. Sometimes I seemed to sense that purpose, clearly see it; but it vanished like a mirage in the harried, often cruel business of everyday.
Yet, somehow you keep track of your floundering creatures. Maybe because life is so filled with defeat and heartbreak, we find ourselves turning to you, yielding ourselves to your will, fighting less furiously for selfish, often empty goals. And when this happens we find that you have turned our sufferings and our failures to little stepping-stones.
Looking back, we see them. These rocks which gradually, all unknown to us, you have been shaping to lead us toward our purpose.....And we have been following! However blindly, however zigzag the course, yet we have been moving toward it.
And looking about, we see there are results. There are signals, heartening little affirmations, unexpected proofs.
However humble our circumstances or undramatic our talents, our true purpose has been revealed. We were meant to make this particular contribution to the world.
And so we must do it well. Do it with faith and patience, with all our strength and passion. And in so doing discover who we really are.
Ephesians 2:8-10 Philippians 2:12, 13
I have several posts ready and will be posting them over the next several days. Thank you for reading...continue. I sincerely hope and pray you have found something useful in your walk with God in my writings. Please leave your comments or suggestions for further study.
May God Bless and Keep You Forever Walking Beside Him,
"JJ"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Jackie Pickels
http://community.adlandpro.com/forums/thread/456577.aspx
PrayerWarriorsUnite.com "Coming Soon"
Women's Devotional Bible
NIV
I am GRATEFUL, God, that I have finally come to realize your purpose for me.
Just when or how this came about I can't say. It wasn't sudden and dramatic, the way it happened to Paul on the road to Damascus, or Peter Marshall with his experience on the Scottish moors.
There have been no visions, no voices, no letters written in fire upon a wall saying: "Do this." "Do that." "This is your reason for being."
No, my search for you and for the meaning you had for my life has been uncertain, groping, erratic, filled with accidents, false goals. Sometimes I seemed to sense that purpose, clearly see it; but it vanished like a mirage in the harried, often cruel business of everyday.
Yet, somehow you keep track of your floundering creatures. Maybe because life is so filled with defeat and heartbreak, we find ourselves turning to you, yielding ourselves to your will, fighting less furiously for selfish, often empty goals. And when this happens we find that you have turned our sufferings and our failures to little stepping-stones.
Looking back, we see them. These rocks which gradually, all unknown to us, you have been shaping to lead us toward our purpose.....And we have been following! However blindly, however zigzag the course, yet we have been moving toward it.
And looking about, we see there are results. There are signals, heartening little affirmations, unexpected proofs.
However humble our circumstances or undramatic our talents, our true purpose has been revealed. We were meant to make this particular contribution to the world.
And so we must do it well. Do it with faith and patience, with all our strength and passion. And in so doing discover who we really are.
Ephesians 2:8-10 Philippians 2:12, 13
I have several posts ready and will be posting them over the next several days. Thank you for reading...continue. I sincerely hope and pray you have found something useful in your walk with God in my writings. Please leave your comments or suggestions for further study.
May God Bless and Keep You Forever Walking Beside Him,
"JJ"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Jackie Pickels
http://community.adlandpro.com/forums/thread/456577.aspx
PrayerWarriorsUnite.com "Coming Soon"
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