So this morning I am watching 'Curious George' with some REALLY special kids I know and the part that I really focus on used the caterpillar to the butterfly. And since I just edited a whole bunch of entries and finally posted them, I thought I would share it as well.
"God Calling" for today is titled, HEAVEN'S COLORS:
Looking back you will see that every step was planned. Leave it all to Me. Each stone in the mosaic fits into the perfect pattern, designed by the Master Artist. It is all so wonderful! But the colors are of Heaven's hues, so that your eyes could not bear to gaze on the whole, until you are beyond the veil. So, stone by stone, you see, and trust the pattern to the Designer.
I just thought the words were beautiful and I feel I could use some beauty in my life. I really don't know what has been going on lately, or really for that matter what it is GOD has been trying to speak to me. I don't feel like me. I feel as though I am grieving, like I have lost something or am saying good bye to something. Yet, I have no idea what that is. On the outside I look like me, heck with working out I am sure it is even a better me. However, the inside is a different story.
On top of that when I get down, being alone and longing for more of GOD also takes ahold of my heart. I have another book of daily readings that I began reading called, "every woman, every day".
As I was reading last Saturday's hit my heart with longing for more of JESUS. Let me share what it says:
Don't forget there's a Mr. Right who longs for your attention and affection, who stands ready to engage in a more passionate love relationship than you could ever imagine. He's already made enormous sacrifices to demonstrate His unconditional love for you. He comes from the strongest family you could imagine, and His Father set an example of perfect love for Him to follow. He owns everything in both heaven and earth and can provide for you beyond your wildest dreams. He has a great vision for your future together, which includes a never-ending honeymoon together in paradise. While you are single, won't you take advantage of every possible opportunity to bask in the incomparable love of Jesus Christ? (Every Young Woman's Battle, page 201)
And for fun I went to read the daily reading for May 31. It was a prayer that says:
As much as I'm able to love someone I can't see or touch, Jesus, I love You. I know You are real. I know You are here with me and even within me, but I have to admit that sometimes I just want someone with skin on to love and love me back. Forgive me for feeling that You aren't enough, Jesus. Would You let me feel Your touch? Would You let me know Your heart intimately? Would You help me hear Your voice? Be enough for me, Lord. Help me be satisfied in You.
This has been my prayer often to HIM, how awesome that it is the daily reading on my Birthday.
Oh, LORD I do love You and need You so desperately in my life right now at this moment. I feel like I am going crazy. What is wrong with me?
*I also read this devotion by Carrie Hudson in an email that I felt I needed to add to this entry. It is where my heart and prayer is also and what a wonderful way to think of this scripture.:
God Changed My Heart
"Now, one of the Pharisees was requesting Him (Jesus) to dine with him. And He entered the Pharisee's house, and reclined at the table. And behold there was a woman in the city who was a sinner; and when she learned that He was reclining at the table in the Pharisee's house, she brought an alabaster of perfume. And standing behind Him at His feet, weeping, she began to wet His feet with her tears, and kept wiping them with the hair of her head, and kissing His feet, and anointing them with the perfume." (Luke 7:36-38)
I think I have read over this passage of scripture many times in my life without giving it much thought. However, this past summer I read it again and the Lord touched my heart in such a way I cried from the first word to the last. I realized there was nothing I wanted more in my life than to be like this woman. The woman, who after hearing that Jesus was within her grasp, ran and got her best perfume to give to Him! To come without a gift…unthinkable! The woman, the sinner, who did not approach Him from the front, but stood behind Him, ever so humbly. The woman, who could not contain her emotion and overwhelming love, wet the Almighty's feet with her tears. The woman who used her hair as a towel to wipe away her tears from the King of King's feet. The woman who kissed the Lamb of Lamb's feet with her lips and anointed them with her finest perfume. This is the woman I want to be most like.
To give myself completely to the Lord. To serve Him and love Him with my very best. To know who He truly is and weep for my destitution and sinful ways. To love the Lord with all abandon and care not what the world around me thinks as I throw myself upon His feet. To serve Him daily and keep my focus upon Him and Him alone. This became my prayer, to be like her to love like this.
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