Keep Your Eyes on the LORD!

I wrote this back at the beginning of ‘08. We had ALL been through some tough stuff. Difficulties don’t end just because we are children of the King. But GOD shows us that HE is with us THROUGH the trials! We serve an UH-MAY-ZING God!! So I have tweaked this just a bit!


It should be sooo easy for us to keep our eyes on the Lord, because he is so good to us! Why should it be so difficult to keep my mind and heart constantly stayed on the ONE true, loving and merciful God? I try and try to keep my eyes on the Lord, but my flesh sure wants my eyes stayed on circumstances (whatever they may be). No WONDER Paul said he had to die DAILY! Some days I die hourly or minutely!!

I KNOW in my heart that I need to bring my thoughts into captivity, but my FLESH wants to let my thoughts run wild and focus on all the junk and battles of the flesh. It IS such a battle. But the GREAT thing about the battle is this ONE, simple fact; Jesus has the victory over EVERY battle we face!

The ENEMY wants to use the battle to get our eyes off the Lord and onto the circumstances. The battle might something as simple as the overwelming tasks of laundry, bills, hurt feelings. JESUS uses that battle (whatever our battle is for any given day, no matter how big or how small) to show us that HE is all we need. He is ENOUGH; our supply, our breath of life! The Lord allows ALL the battles in our life to grow us (remember how painful growing pains were when you were a kid?) and strengthen our faith. Growing hurts, but if it grows our faith and our relationship with our Lord and savior, then that pain has served it's purpose! It has brought us exactly where God wants us!


Psalm 37 is AWESOME!!! READ THE WHOLE CHAPTER!!! Here are just a few verses....
1) [[[A Psalm] of David.]] Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
2) For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
3) Trust in the LORD, and do good; [so] shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
4) Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
5) Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring [it] to pass.
6) And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.
7) Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.


Our God is good! He is faithful. He ALWAYS loves us and never gives up on us (even when we give up on each other) Nahum 1:7 says....The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.

No matter what we go through...he is there to help us! Where is YOUR battle? Home, work, personal, spritual, marriage, kids?

GOD IS THERE TO HELP YOU!!!
Don't go to him LAST!
Go to him FIRST!!!

We love you ALL! It is a privelege to serve you!!!