liars, cheaters and self promoters

you know what i hate? liars! especially the kind that accuse someone of something that they are doing themselves! know what else i hate? people whose goal is to elevate self. my discerning spirit tells me that both happen much more frequently than i am willing to admit and that both are happening right under my nose. over the last few weeks i have watched people's personality change right before my eyes and lucky for me, there is "something" in me that allows me to pick up on it quicker than a blink. all i have to say to that revelation however, is...your's is coming! when you say things and respond to others based on that bad things they did, don't go there yourself. it'll come back to bite you on the butt! once again its about that principle of sowing and reaping. when you sow good, you reap good. when you sow lies, guess what???!!!!
i know that it is not the american norm for us to "consider others more important than ourselves, but last year, i watched someone get torn down just so the one doing the tearing down could take their place! you know the old adage, "history repeats itself"! i promise it does!! all of it, the good and the bad! so if you've seen bad repaid with worse, take heart, it's gonna happen again! get ready, this time, it'll be you! funny how we pass the same folks going up that you pass going down! yes, i'm talking about you!

This morning I was spending a few moments in the Word before getting ready to go to work. It was about 6:30 and I was looking at Galatians 6:9. It says "And let us not grow weary in well doing for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart." Reap is a agricultural term that refers to fruit or harvest we gain from the seeds we plant. God uses something as practical as planting seeds and reaping the harvest from those seeds as an illusration to teach us!

Do you believe that God has a timetable? It's not unlike the timetable of a farmer. In due time all seeds we plant will grow. Some will have a quick return and we will see the efforts of our planting right away. Some will have a much slower return and the fruits of those seeds may take years, even a lifetime. It may actually be our children or our children's children that will reap harvest from that seed we planted.

But, herein lies that BIG question. What kind of seed are you planting? What sort of reward do you expect to reap? If we sow wisely, we can expect to yield good fruit, but if we do not, we can not. Too many people spend years sowing the type of seed that produces fruit that really should have never been planted and they have waited and expect to see real fruit from their planting, we call those people disillusioned. Verse 10 says "Therefore as we have opportunity let us do good to all especially those in the household of faith." Most of the times, its our brothers and sisters, our family that we treat the worst.

While we wait for the fruit, we must not grow weary, but keep on keeping on. Refuse to be discouraged. Give and keep giving, love and keep loving and know that God's harvest is guaranteed! No rain will ruin His crop. We have to live and walk in expanctancy that we will see our planted seed yield.

Don't believe that I have been successful in always planting good fruit or that everything I plant has sprouted into a boutiful harvest, that would be far from truth! I am however working daily to grow in God that I might be able to recognize easy and quickly when I am not producing as I should!
Be Blessed!

Riding the Waves

Okay, the trouble with being older is it takes a while to figure these things out, but not to worry, I've gotten the hang of it!

I just wanted to say...you just never know! You just never know what God has in store for your life! I've never really been one for big surprise, so the fact that someone else has control of my ultimate destiny hasn't been my favorite cup of tea, but the fact that God has me in the palm of my hand and even though I have no clue what surprise is around the corner, He knows! He knows and He sets me up! I just imagine that He's up there looking down at me and poking Jesus with his elbow saying, "Jesus check this out, look what I've got in store for Wanda!"

There have been a few surprises around every corner these last few days and I really can't say why, what I can say, is the Big Guy has got my back, He knows what's up, He has a purpose in everything and I am not going to question His plan. Today, I'm gonna just ride the wave!! It's taken a long time for me to get the place of being able to just hang on the board and ride in out but, take it from me, it's the best way. Sometimes our nature wants to try another approach or swim back out and see if we can get a better grip or wait for a bigger wave, but the truth is, once we learn to ride what's coming at us, He can teach us all the tricks we need to know in order for it to be the best ride we've ever taken. Ain't that something!!

God is good and if we give Him control, there is more fun in store than you ever bargained for!

Only the beginning

Hi, just checking in to say this is only the beginning. I am extremely busy, but my daughter says I need to take the time to blog!