Confession #14: I just gotta write this down
3 days.
I know it doesn't always work like this when you resolve to pray about something, but because it did today, and I can sit and marvel at it, I want to write it down.
I had resolved to pray about something for 2 weeks. And I will admit it was a struggle to even come to that resolve because I didn't want to be patient to pray. I've been patient to pray before/already and it was/is a looong road. But even in the midst of what I'm certain is God teaching me SO MUCH PATIENCE, he also let me off the hook a little. Instead of 2 weeks, he answered my prayer specifically and better than I thought in only 3 days.
It just leaves me smiling at God and wondering why in the world he chooses to be kind and compassionate and interactive with humans - least of all me. EVERY TIME I see his interaction with me clearly in knocks my socks off. It's like there are these big, almost ironic moments and if you look at them right you find that you're actually looking at part of the glory of God.
I continually praise God for vastness, his goodness, and his compassionate character. As he showed Moses his glory as he hid him in the cleft of the rock and covered him with his hand he declared who he was:
"The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving inquiry and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and fourth generation."
As one chosen to receive God's steadfast love and faithfulness, how can I not be immensely grateful???
I know it doesn't always work like this when you resolve to pray about something, but because it did today, and I can sit and marvel at it, I want to write it down.
I had resolved to pray about something for 2 weeks. And I will admit it was a struggle to even come to that resolve because I didn't want to be patient to pray. I've been patient to pray before/already and it was/is a looong road. But even in the midst of what I'm certain is God teaching me SO MUCH PATIENCE, he also let me off the hook a little. Instead of 2 weeks, he answered my prayer specifically and better than I thought in only 3 days.
It just leaves me smiling at God and wondering why in the world he chooses to be kind and compassionate and interactive with humans - least of all me. EVERY TIME I see his interaction with me clearly in knocks my socks off. It's like there are these big, almost ironic moments and if you look at them right you find that you're actually looking at part of the glory of God.
I continually praise God for vastness, his goodness, and his compassionate character. As he showed Moses his glory as he hid him in the cleft of the rock and covered him with his hand he declared who he was:
"The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving inquiry and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and fourth generation."
As one chosen to receive God's steadfast love and faithfulness, how can I not be immensely grateful???
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