I woke up to the word trudge in my head this morning. Trudge means to walk in a laborious, heavy-footed way or a long, tedious walk. I am going in for an extensive sinus surgery in the next few days and if you remember from my last post I commented on training for a marathon. My sinus' are so messed up that I have had to halt all my exercise efforts. Everything I do is slower now. My energy is slow and my body does not function the way it used to. I feel like I am trudging through life just waiting for my surgery to be over and to have my life back.
I had the opportunity to listen to an amazing testimony at a woman's event from a lady that was in one of my classes earlier this year. She was a brand new Christian when I met her and we spent a lot of time talking through all that she was experiencing. To see her now is such a blessing. I can see the weight lifted off her shoulders and hear the love and excitement of Jesus in her voice. I had to stop and reflect for a moment about how I used to sound like her. I used to be so excited about what God was doing in and through my life.
Both of the stories I just shared with you can relate to all of us. We can see others around us so on fire and excited for God. We can be moving along so great and then all of the sudden something happens and we lose our energy, our spark. We begin to trudge through life and our walk with God. It happens to all of us.
One of my favorite passages in Scripture is 1 Corinthians 1:26-29,31
"Brothers, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things-and the things that are not- to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him... let him who boasts boast in the Lord."
Bad things happen and for so many of us life gets in the way. But is this what God wants for me, for us? To just merely exist? As the Scripture above states it has nothing to do with who we are, what we have done or where we are in life. It is all about grace and true love. We can turn our sorrow into dancing, we can turn our trudging into running.
I am so excited to see where God is going to move with this ministry and I pray for all of you daily and the impact it will have on your world and the lives of those around you. Let's make a pact to live for more. Let us take this time as we go into the holiday season to fall in love with Jesus again.
Remember God wants you. He loves you and you are a cherished child of the living God!
