I STAND AMAZED

Even when it’s hard, the Truth is always the answer! I stand amazed!

I have learned something that I needed to know from the parable of the “wicked servant.” This parable will shock you if you can wrap your head around it and understand WHO the unfaithfull servant truly is. It is ME and it is YOU!

It is not the unbeliever that Christ was talking about but those who are referred to as “lazy, wicked SERVANTS.” A servant is one who serves another. This is how it relates in my life. The Master is Christ and I am the servant! My reasonable service to Him is simply to put Him first, love Him, obey His commands, and love others. 

It’s really not a lot to ask of me considering the great exchange that happened when I became His follower. He gave me life for death, abundance for lack, and eternal life! PRETTY GOOD TRADE!!!

I can work daily on becoming more faithful to Him AND without fear of rejection based on the status of MY faithfulness. He is faithful to complete that which He began in me and I can totally TRUST HIM!  I will allow HIM to refine the gifts He has given me and in HIS TIME I will become ALL He has called me to be and to do. I will listen to Him.

All those who would stand in the way of my growth must be placed in God’s hands and I must move onward toward the goal of the calling Christ died to offer me. I will be called on to make some great sacrifices that will be painful. It is so hard to accept someone being removed from your life sometimes but like “excess baggage” they must go for they will weigh you down. Their purpose in your life has been fulfilled. That is another HARD TRUTH!

It continues to amaze me that the more I look at MY weakness’s, the less I see in others. I am learning to “righteously” judge MYSELF even when my insides are just screaming out for justice (or revenge) toward others! I am the weakest in the kingdom but so very grateful for God’s AMAZING grace! I think that by the time the Lord is done with me, I will be perfect!(just as He is perfect) That’s what He said.

BE ENCOURAGED today! Just like me, YOUR STORY is still being written and you have been given the talent and the power to write that story and MAKE IT BEAUTIFUL!