I'm humbled to see how God loves us. He is so strong and brave. He fears nothing. He is such a wonderful daddy. I'm learning that God is a daddy that loves us so that He desires to build us into people that are whole walking with Him. He made the foundations of the Earth and made elements in their purest most whole form. I believe He desires for us to be daily renewed and ultimately transformed into wholeness and purity. I think sometimes in our walk we think, I've got this! I'm doing EVERYTHING right... just the way i know i'm suppose to.. I'm going to church all the time.. i pray every morning.. i'm reading my word.. i'm witnessing.. i'm taking care of my family AND i am set in the calling God has placed on my heart. Then something happens and our foundations begin to shake!? This human mind thinks back... oh no... What am i doing wrong.. Why are people responding to me this way? Why aren't things working out? How did i let things slip through my hands? What did I miss? It's like a child building a building out of blocks and they think they have almost completed their master piece when Daddy comes in and says, "Child, time to put up the blocks!!" Maybe it's time to eat or maybe it's time to learn how to ride a bike. ONLY God knows what time it is ultimately but KNOW that when you don't drop your blocks and come to Him.. Daddy will come in and PUT the BLOCKS up for you!! Especially if you have given Him those rights in your life!! It amazes me that we turn over our rights and then freak out when He uses them. Remember that He knows what you need to be whole. Sometimes he has to take away all the things we are good at and called to so that we may be developed in other ways!! To become whole mature men and women of God.. Take joy in trial.. for they bring perseverance so that you may FINISH your race and that you may become mature not lacking anything!!! I know this is easier said than done and easier read than practiced, but rest assured that though it might feel as if He has picked you up from your blocks and set you in a foreign land ... HE is still your daddy and He knew where you would be THIS day when He gave you your dreams and your promises. He just wants to develop other sides of us. This isn't fun and sometimes it hurts our pride so much because we put SO MUCH TIME, EFFORT, AND PRACTICE in building OUR STRUCTURE. KNOW this day that just like any mature adult can go in and build a tower of building block that looks amazing to any child in little of NO TIME. He can rebuild any structure you found amazing as well... in NO TIME! When we have finished our race ... the crown of life is waiting :) -khristen
