Hi ladies, I have missed you! Ready to get started....again? RE-START. Begin again. I always need new fresh starts. I know we all do. I'm gonna try to make this short.....so you can read....and then post your wonderful verse for the month!!!!!
I am tempted to sometimes look back on how things used to be .......and then grieve the loss of the good things of the past that are no longer a part of my present. Missing old friends, family who are no longer here .....just a plain old.....
"Those were the good old days".....mentality.
I work to push those thoughts out of my mind and heart. And try to focus on the awesome work of God present in my life. ........ I know that we all struggle with those thoughts from time to time ( and especially after great loss of some kind.) We wish it could go back to the way it used to be when, ....." my health was better, or I had more free time.....or a that same job , before my friends moved....or I moved or when "so and so" was still living." And the list goes on.
I have a great verse that reminds me to live in he present....in the moment.....in today. With lots of Hope for the future. (It's the one I have been trying to learn since school started for Miss Emily and Amy......but now I get to do it with you girls and "get-er-done!!")
So my verse.......
" Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing!
Now it springs up: do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness
and streams in the wasteland." Isaiah 43:18-19
Love His promises.......! So glad I have you to do this with me......to keep me accountable too! Place your pretty 3x5 cards in your car.....kitchen counter....on your desks and lets let HIS WORD dwell in our hearts! Don't forget to post your verse!
Here's my verse....
ReplyDeleteIsaiah 43:18-19
" Forget the former things; do not swell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland."
Let me hear why you've chosen your verse too!
Robin Cahill - Hi Barbie! So good to be back, I also have missed posting on Scripture Sisters. The timing is perfect and so is our Lord. I love your verse and was recently thinking about the former things and dwelling on the past, like where I was a year ago and how I miss friends, homeschooling, a store that is closer than 30 miles away. But when my kids starting to say how they missed the way it used to be I was reminded of how the Lord has blessed our family by allowing to spend a whole lot more time together. We can lose our focus so quickly when our eye our not on Him. So Here's my verse...
ReplyDeletePhilippians 3:13-14 "I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead. I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus." That is why we are here on this earth, to do what God has called us to and to make a difference for Him right where we are now.
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ReplyDeleteGreat time to get back in touch again. I'm doing a study on the book of Daniel so those scriptures are really speaking to me lately. Early in the study and each day since we began this verse has me thinking about each decision I make and how it's affecting both myself and God's Kingdom.
ReplyDeleteDaniel 1:8 "But Daniel resolved not to defile himself..."
Daniel was around 15 years old at the time he made this declaration and had just been taken into captivity in Babylon. Wow he was brave...Lord, let me be a Daniel!!
Trusting You is all I want to do!!!
Love ya Barby,
Nancy
Keep the "Son" in your eyes!