As only God does, He turned the angst of yesterday into times of blessing. In each case that I wrote about yesterday, He had already been working. The together times we had were used to put plans in place for our living in God’s obedience instead of wanting to live there, but still choosing pathways of flesh.

The reality that God’s discipline is always to teach a lesson is so very true. In each of these cases, once man’s eyes were off of self and onto Jesus, the problems being faced grew into steps we can now grow from. Instead of hiding from things done, putting them right in front of us allows those problems to be the reminders and motivators for following God’s plan rather than that of our flesh.

Once I brought all of the secrets of my past out in the open, God was able to begin for me the lessons he wanted me to learn (and He is not done for I am of my own flesh). Yet, God never stops working with us as long as we keep our eyes focused on Him, our ears open to His teaching–His Spirit’s Voice within us, and then obey. The desire of my heart is to TRUST AND OBEY–for there’s no other way to be happy in Jesus, but to TRUST AND OBEY.