Slowly Fade Away

Tonight's lesson at TREK was about slowly fading into sin. We often find ourselves slowly fading into sin, it's not something that we do on purpose but we let our guard down and it happens. Satan is like that, he attacks and slowly sneaks in taking our innocence a little at a time. He doesn't just come in and take it all, it's one step at a time. God takes us and meets us where we are at. We have an almighty Father, Creator of Heaven and Earth, that picks us up and rescues us from all harm. He meets us where we are and when we are guarded with his armor on a daily basis, he fights off satan for us. How wonderful it is to know that the Lord will protect us from the one who chooses to destroy us. Praise the Lord for your new mercies each day!

Life in General

Today is tax day, oh what joy! The bible tells us to render unto Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's. I'm going to try and do better about giving to God what is God's, but I really don't like having to give Caesar what is Caesar's. I don't know why I always have such a hard time giving to God. It's not that I don't want too, it's just there are so many things to take care of and when I finally think about it, it's to late and there isn't enough left to give. I feel like I give by giving my time to the youth and all the ways that we help out others. Sometimes I feel overwhelmed by the amount of money we never have.

I've tried to be really positive about it for my husband's sake, but like him there are days where I just feel enough is enough and we need a break. However, I also know that there is no one like our God and that he will never give us more than we can handle. I want to have the faith that when I give that money, it's out of my willingness to surrender my all to God. I have to ask myself, have I really done that? Have I laid down all my hopes, fears, anxieties, joys, sadness, possibilities and placed them in the Lord's hand and said you take them and do what you will? I don't think I have done that lately. I believe that there are times you have to do that everyday under different circumstances.

I want today to be that day for me. Lord here is everything I have and I give it to you. What a joy it is to have the ability to praise God and know that no matter what, he will take care of us.