The Little Things

Ever think that something small that is bothering you--- or something small that you wish or care about . . . is just too small for God?

I mean you'll ask him for the big thing . . . or what we perceive to be big . . . but often we won't ask Him for the small things, . . . like it's not worth His time?

The thing is . . . I think He delights, at times, to move in those very things.

Maybe you'd like to pass by that smart alec at work just once without him saying something that makes you quip back . . .

Maybe you'd just like to sleep an extra hour tonight because you've been so stressed lately.

Maybe you'd like to keep your house straightened up for a few days after cleaning and not have it obliterated the same night . . .

Or maybe you would like just one week not to eek out every penny you have for gas, but be able to fill up the tank ---just once . . .

I don't know.

A Pastor I had for a long time once challenged us not to ask for anything for ourselves. & When I looked at my prayer back then, there had been so many , "Lord help me's . . . " so I took the challenge and it was amazing what changing your focus can do.

I started changing from "Lord help me do this------ to "Lord help so and so with . . . " etc. Liberating!!!! & Still, even now, I try to keep it outward. Keeps things a lot less about me and a lot more about what He wants to do . . .

Still, . . . in James the Word says, "You have not because you ask not." Hmmm---

Maybe a happy medium?

So I leave for work one day and I am beat tired. Before I left I kinda speak to God silently that I just need some help, some energy, motivation . . .

Leaving my back door I see a bird perched on the fence looking at me. I kinda smile. I get in the car and start driving and notice the sky is turning a brilliant hue. I get to Tim Horton's and the lady says, "Hi Mya" and gives me my decaf with a smiley face on the lid--that she drew. I thanked her. Then I went on to work, with a quickly improving attitude to be greeted by my boss, "Good morning Mya, how are you?"

"I'm good. And you?"

Back in 2008 there was one time inparticular I remember. I was leaving a house I lived in then to go to town. I was a mess. My nerves were gone. A lot of things were going on I did not understand. I was completely confused about something that was failing miserably and I did not understand what I had done to fail that time around . . . I wasn't even heartbroken . . . I was confused and numb. I started bawling when I hit the interstate to get to town. I remembered some things dear to me . . to my heart, and that just made me cry harder. Started to get off on an exit just to be more upset because It didn't want 309, I wanted 95, ugh . . .
So I crossed over . . . and went up an exit on the other side to continue down the road. As I entered up the new exit . . . I drove right into the end of a rainbow!!!

& At that moment it just felt like God's love washed over me . . & He reminded me of HIS promise to me . .and even little particular things . .from now long ago . . . :)

& Now I still wept, . . . but in this sweet kind of joy . . . relief . . .

He knew right where I was--------and just what I needed-----------
and He made sure to let me know He was right there . . .

Sometimes in our hurt or anger . . . sometimes in our effort to try to stay focused on Him and all the "right things" . . . we leave out us . . . and those small things.

I am not encouraging anyone to be all about yourself. No.

I AM encouraging all of us though- to be just "real" with God. I mean, after all, He knows.

When we can be real with Him, He can work wonders in our lives. He can do flat out miracles in our lives that years later we're STILL thinkin'--------had to be God, had to be God.

So, even when it is small and seemingly doesn't matter to anyone but us . . .
believe me, . . . it does matter to Him too.

:) He'll just sit in a porch swing with ya---if ya let Him!

GOB BLESS

Without Him In Me

Without Him in me-
I can do nothing

I might see plights and blight
But my power to help is limited

Without Him in me-
I can do nothing

I might hear the cries of unborn children
but be nothing more than a voice, a cause

Without Him in me-
I can do nothing

I can feel empathy or sympathy or concern
but provide no real and lasting answer

Without Him in me-
I can do nothing

Can have the most charismatic speeches
And woo many but only temorarily

Without Him in me-
I can do nothing

Achieve great things
That in the end will all burn

Without Him in me-
I can do nothing

Say to that mountain- BE moved!
And then stare at that mountain still . . .

Without Him in me-
I can do nothing

I can claim to know Jesus . . .
But never see another soul enter His kingdom . . .

But the Word says:

"I can do ALL THINGS through Him that strengthens me."

Me in Him and Him in me . . .

Anything else isn't anything at all . . .