I’m going to share a little something personal this morning.(That just made me lol. “ME” share something personal?)
This is something that I ran across this morning from 2012 and it warmed my heart. But besides warming my heart for my kids that I wrote about, the Holy Spirit made me take note of the DATE. And then taking note of the year this idea of being passionate and seeking popped in my mind. It was unexpected affirmation.
You see, I have naysayers.
I don’t want to focus on THEM, but SOME people along my path have had resentment toward my passion, and even had someone I really looked up to who knew nothing about me, basically tell me that my passion was a condition that happens as a result of losing (only 3 years ago) a loved one. Of course I knew and know better.
Naysayers.
If you are passionately following God with ALL your heart… you are going to have them. You will have friends who drift away and just don’t get it.
And that’s OK.
I hear God whisper all the time to me, “Erin, where does your identity come from? Are you going to get it from THEM or ME?”
I make up my mind in that very second.
It’s my thought that if we are not standing out then we might just be blending in.
I’ve been relearning a lot, by no coincidence lately, about being BOLD.
One of the boldest things I try to do on a regular basis is share my faith. And I do it because God wants us to.
When we share our faith and our testimonies we encourage others and we are testifying to the goodness of God in our lives.
My passion, that has even annoyed me over the years, is a gift that I’ve learned to embrace.
It’s MY gift. It’s who God made me. It’s for the purpose in my life and it’s my job to use it for His glory.
I will admit that I can learn to make better use of it and channel it better as with any gift, but I was definitely born with it and given to use it.
We FIGHT this fight and journey with Him daily for the JOY set before us!
Don’t even gaze at the people who will try to squelch your zeal. Keep your eyes on Jesus. Stay the path. The BEST IS yet to come.
— February 13, 2012
This morning my heart is about to explode with joy. Just pure joy and thankfulness. I was talking to my babies about being “doers” of God’s word, and Holy Spirit just took over. You know when you finish speaking and you have no idea where such wisdom came from! That happens to me a lot. I’m so careful what words I choose with them. I want so badly for them to have a fire for living God’s word, but I don’t want to overwhelm them, or have them resent me. I want it to be out of love, so I always ask the Holy Spirit to speak through me to them…in His perfect timing…in His perfect words, and this morning He did. Boy did He speak, and I know that they will never forget His words! It’s moments like these…when I SEE Him at work, that I almost can’t contain the love for Him in my heart.
Doers…I want to be a doer. Today and everyday. I want my babies to be doers. I want my babies to WANT to be doers. I feel it in every once of my flesh that God has something special planned for all three of them, and how lucky I am to get to be the one getting to plant His seeds.
When you ask the Lord to open the eyes of your heart…be ready to have the eyes of your heart opened.
And “Once our eyes are opened we can’t pretend that we don’t know what to do. God who weighs our hearts, and keeps our souls, knows that we know, and holds us responsible to act.”
Proverbs 24-12 I memorized that!!! ❤ Yes I get excited over little things.
Eyes Of A Lion 