Here's the Truth.... Proverbs 31 OBS Blog Hop { Day 44 }

Here's the Truth

When Jesus and His truths are at the center of my life then everything around me will be grounded with Him.  

I’m an early riser.  I like to wake up while the rest of the world still sleeps.  I tiptoe (sometimes while holding my breath) down the stairs because if the stairs creek any…little ears will hear and whisper, “Mommy?”  Honestly, I think they can smell me as I pass their door.  But, I do this because I need this time alone.  Just me, Jesus and my coffee.  That’s priority for me.

  

When I choose to make other things my priority…my center…then I am worshiping whatever I put there.  Whether that is food, exercise, work, school or social media…it becomes something I worship.  And it will never satisfy me.  It may temporarily but it will never truly satisfy me the way His truths will.

God created us in His image…it says so in Gen. 1:27.  His law is written on our hearts and we have free will to choose to love Him. 

The truth is…if God is at my center then everything I do will include Him. But that is not always easy.  

Sometimes it is easier for me to believe the lies I say to myself first…those I’m not good enough for this or I’d never be able to do that…or whatever it is.  I can believe those first because I know how to beat myself up.  I know how to hold on to something and bring it out when I need it as a weapon.  The tongue is a powerful weapon and it can build you up or bring you down.  I know how important it is to speak life to my children but I need to speak life to myself as well.

I will start to believe my statements and not the ones that are whispered to me day in and day out. The ones that are right in front of my face but I’m too blind with myself to see.

The freedom that God is offering is right in front of me…right there for the taking!  I just have to remove the scales from my eyes to see…see His truths…grab hold of His hand and let Him speak to me….let His words sink deep into my soul. 

Speak life to myself and listen to the Author of Life that speaks His truth over me.

“You have circled this mountain long enough.  Now turn north.” ~Deut 2:3

In our verse this week it says, “But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’  Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.” 2 Cor. 12:9  

 

So that’s what I am doing…speaking His truth over me.  When a negative thought comes in…I speak His truth.  I speak it until I believe it.  Day by day those things I used to say to myself get smaller and smaller and He gets bigger and bigger.  He becomes my center. There is freedom in that.  

When Jesus is at my center…I’m looking for Him in my life all day long.  When Jesus is at my center…I’m feeling joy, peace and love and in turn that is what I am giving to others.  Truth…freedom.

“Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you?” 2 Cor. 13:5

His truth at my center equals balance in my life.  By believing in His truth then all I will see is Him everywhere.  Even in the mirror.