This week I’ve been doing a lot of re-learning, while experiencing the frailty and incompetence of my own human strength. I’m re-learning that I must daily align myself with God and his truth and ask daily for his strength to empower me.
This week has been anything but bliss, from the beginning of the week - my auto immune disease started flaring up causing me to be achey and exhausted, to an emergency room visit, to mental exhaustion I’ve seen how my own “strength” comes nowhere close to God provided strength. I’ve realized how push my mind and body farther, than the actual amount of gas I have in the tank. My selfish pride tells me to just keep going, you got this on your own. And so each day I’m find myself running on empty, unable to give to myself or to others. I get caught up in the day to day chaos, I get caught up with deadlines and grades. And I grab the easiest aid to each of those problems, which I find; fail me each time. This is how my week went - I start off the week with my body feeling sick and simply put - meh. I’m running on half a tank, throw in some school work deadlines chaos, than a mid week and emergency room visit. And each slice of chaos thrown my way, I’m depending on myself to get me through. Instead of aligning myself with God, His word all while seeking His strength. Later in the week, I finally sit down and have some much needed bible time and God speaks and say this to me- “Mikayla stop it, stop trying to have it altogether. I am already enough for you. I am your strength, let me renew you” And there I realized how easy it is to be distracted by each day to day trouble. And how we run to the easiest aid for our chaos, instead of settling down, tuning out the world and all the loud voices, and seeking his peace filled tender voice. And asking him for the renewal of strength and perseverance. Life can be messy, unpredictable, and unsteady. But God is steady, He is a rock and a solid foundation, He is faithful and He is true in the midst of all the unknown, in the midst of all the chaos his steady peaceful voice reigns even in the darkest of nights. I urge you to settle down, pray fervently, worship passionately, read his word with an endless hunger and allow him to enfold you into his presence while he renews you. Just say admit this with me right now “God, I admit I don’t have it altogether. God I need you!” - when we are incapable, He is far more capable than we could even imagine. So friends, rest in this. You do not need to have it altogether, let that pressure fall off your shoulders and allow grace to step in. What a praise that we don’t have to run on our own frail human strength, but that we have a God who provides a strength far better than all we could ask for or imagine. He has it altogether. He’s magnificently perfect, and he will meet you with his strength and perseverance. Just humble yourselves, because where you lack greatly, He is made perfect. I pray that this blog is a blessing to all who read it today. I pray that a weight would be lifted off your shoulders and that you will go spend some much needed time with God. God bless you all, Mikayla Kent- P.S read Psalm 91 below ⬇️ Psalm 91 1 Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. 2 I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” 3 Surely he will save you from the fowler’s snare and from the deadly pestilence. 4 He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart. 5 You will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day, 6 nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that destroys at midday. 7 A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you. 8 You will only observe with your eyes and see the punishment of the wicked. 9 If you say, “The Lord is my refuge,” and you make the Most High your dwelling, 10 no harm will overtake you, no disaster will come near your tent. 11 For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways; 12 they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone. 13 You will tread on the lion and the cobra; you will trample the great lion and the serpent. 14 “Because he[b] loves me,” says the Lord, “I will rescue him; I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name. 15 He will call on me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him. 16 With long life I will satisfy him and show him my salvation.”
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Ck
9/30/2018 09:48:55 am
So so beautiful. Thank you for constantly spreading God’s love and being so vulnerable with your struggles. You are so real and raw <3
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