Day 6: Leslie Workman
Galatians 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
My Boast in the Lord is a bit strange, since in the physical, I’ve had an awful year, filled with months of pain so bad that led me to receive care from a pain management specialist, all the way to having two hip replacement surgeries: one scheduled and one done on an emergency basis from bone and soft tissue damage as a result of a fall.
My question was where were/are you, God? I see You in the little things, but what could I boast of You in this “bad” year?
His response has been clear, although perhaps not entirely to my liking! The fruit of the spirit includes patience (or longsuffering); an attribute that not all of us have in abundance, especially me. His call to rest in Him could not be clearer, nor His kindness to me that He will always remain by my side and not give me more than I can bear.
Was this year His response to my concern expressed a few years back? When I was losing hope about many things in my life? Maybe. God’s ways are not our ways, rather, they are far above ours! I know that He heard me and I believe that even these physical ailments are being used by Him to expand my perspective in life.
As a result of this year, I have more compassion for those physically challenged as well as hope when I see and experience the love and compassion of others who are kind, in both word and action, whether saved or unsaved, towards my challenges. To others, I marvel that He has made me a beacon of hope, an encouragement to friends and even strangers who approach me to comment on the light they see in me.
Have the circumstances that make me feel hopeless at times changed? Unfortunately, no, but God is giving me a better perspective and ability to walk through life’s difficulties, to cling to Him through it all and to know that He is with me and will not leave nor forsake me.
So where is my Boast? It’s in the ultimate victory I already have in Christ Jesus. I am reminded of 1 Corinthians 15:54-55; 57: “When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Prayer
Yes, praise be to God for His Son, Jesus Christ, who has brought us from death into life; rich, abundant life forevermore. My Boast in the Lord is for His goodness and faithfulness to me, the daughter of a king, the King of Kings, who loves and cherishes me beyond measure. Truly, as I am able, I marvel at His goodness and rest in His loving arms.
“For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 8:38-39
My Boast in the Lord is a bit strange, since in the physical, I’ve had an awful year, filled with months of pain so bad that led me to receive care from a pain management specialist, all the way to having two hip replacement surgeries: one scheduled and one done on an emergency basis from bone and soft tissue damage as a result of a fall.
My question was where were/are you, God? I see You in the little things, but what could I boast of You in this “bad” year?
His response has been clear, although perhaps not entirely to my liking! The fruit of the spirit includes patience (or longsuffering); an attribute that not all of us have in abundance, especially me. His call to rest in Him could not be clearer, nor His kindness to me that He will always remain by my side and not give me more than I can bear.
Was this year His response to my concern expressed a few years back? When I was losing hope about many things in my life? Maybe. God’s ways are not our ways, rather, they are far above ours! I know that He heard me and I believe that even these physical ailments are being used by Him to expand my perspective in life.
As a result of this year, I have more compassion for those physically challenged as well as hope when I see and experience the love and compassion of others who are kind, in both word and action, whether saved or unsaved, towards my challenges. To others, I marvel that He has made me a beacon of hope, an encouragement to friends and even strangers who approach me to comment on the light they see in me.
Have the circumstances that make me feel hopeless at times changed? Unfortunately, no, but God is giving me a better perspective and ability to walk through life’s difficulties, to cling to Him through it all and to know that He is with me and will not leave nor forsake me.
So where is my Boast? It’s in the ultimate victory I already have in Christ Jesus. I am reminded of 1 Corinthians 15:54-55; 57: “When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Prayer
Yes, praise be to God for His Son, Jesus Christ, who has brought us from death into life; rich, abundant life forevermore. My Boast in the Lord is for His goodness and faithfulness to me, the daughter of a king, the King of Kings, who loves and cherishes me beyond measure. Truly, as I am able, I marvel at His goodness and rest in His loving arms.
“For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 8:38-39
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