I can hardly believe this month is almost over! I can't believe I've been so silent on my blog because God has really been doing a lot in my life lately!
In my last post I mentioned praying for a word for 2014, and I have it now! God gave me the word 'Obedience' and after quite a bit of struggling with not obeying something God was asking of me for a few months I finally went ahead and did it.
God had been asking me to give up a couple various internet sites that I spent a lot of time on - while there were neat and interesting things on there like art, cool stories and funny jokes, there was also a lot of violent graphic 'art', pictures, pop culture influence, awful sexual jokes and references and posts mocking Jesus. So very early this month I knew I had to quit cold turkey -and I realized this after a quote I read in 'Set Apart Girl Magazine' it said :
We cannot delay our obedience to Christ until it fits into our schedule or when it is convenient and easy for us
Which, was exactly what I had been doing...So from that point on I needed a plan of action, I complied a *very* short list of websites to go on instead of these other sites because I knew I would be tempted to go on them when I was online. The first three or four days were pretty tough as it was habit to go on these sites for my daily entertainment. But over these few short days my list grew... and kept growing with websites, testimony sites, missionaries and ministries to check out and look at instead of what I was looking at, so my list went from 5 sites (which don't update very often) to a whole page long! And thus far I haven't gone back on those sites in three weeks! Woo hoo! :)
It was also really neat how a couple days after all this internet site giving up I was at a friend's bible study and we were going over John 5.
We were going over verse 6 where the paralyzed and blind were hanging out by the pool, and Jesus asked a paralyzed man " Do you want to get well?"
It seems like a pretty dumb question, the obvious answer is Yes, of course! But I found thinking of my own situation... had I really wanted to give up something- almost an idol in my life you could call it- to be made well?
Answer: Not really, I was completely helpless like this paralyzed man, and still Jesus told him to 'Get up and walk' and the man could do it, because Jesus told him to do it, and he obeyed Him even though he probably thought it crazy to just stand up and walk after being paralyzed for 38 years. How amazing is that! So if he did something Jesus asked him to - that seemed so impossible how can I not do something He asked of me that was so easy?! So that's what I've learned so far this month!
Besides that, God has answered a couple prayers that I didn't expect Him to answer so soon or so...abundantly! So that's been really amazing to see! It's been a huge encouragement to just keep pressing on! :)
