New month and it is about 30 degrees outside. Bitter cold. Well I spent the night curled up on my chaise lounge in my bedroom with my kitty, Romy, under a blanket watching Joyce Meyer on TBN. TBN reminds me of when I moved to Duluth, Georgia. Bible belt country...aw yes...and I would watch that channel all morning and into early afternoon as I readied myself for work. I would listen and take notes and study them. I recently found all the old notebooks and cannot wait to sit and read them all. God was so present in my life then and I was all alone, just with him. 800 miles from NJ, new home, new job, new state. I look back and I see how God just stayed with me through it all because it could have been a really scary time and yet I was so calm and focused on my new quest. I had such blessed assurance. The way to achieve that assurance is by living right for God. Keeping your eyes on Him, studying the word and applying it in your daily life. I knew I was in his perfect will then. I was in a bad place prior to that job move and God removed me from it and took me far far away to be alone with Him. To rededicate myself and my life. I was saved in 1993 but gave my life to God wholeheartedly on December 31, 1995 and turned my back on the things I was doing and I am here to give a praise report that I have remained true to my faith ever since. Now that is not to say our lives and our spiritual walk does not hit crooked paths and some cracks in the sidewalk. No. It is impossible to be perfect and to live perfect. But we are to strive to live as living testimonies for others so they can see that God is real. If all we had to do was believe in Jesus and admit He was real and ask Him into our lives, than he would take us to heaven and live with Him and be done. No, our "job" here on earth is to draw others to Him so that they too will have eternal life. If you are a Christian, you may be the only testimony someone at work ever sees. A neighbor, a friend, a classmate. It is not about us, it is about saving others. If we all keep that in our minds as we enter this day than we may just save a soul. Happy November.
Isaiah 61:1-3
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