Today marks the final day of September and concludes month nine of walking this new line. I mostly care to fill you in on just how incredible this process has been and how obviously the Lord has accomplished so much with very little. However, I wouldn't be honest if I didn't tell you that there has been a price required for a walk of faith that believes God to be all-powerful, all-knowing, constantly loving, and desperately longing for His children to walk humbly before Him. Though I have mostly learned to "rejoice in the Lord" during these months, I have experienced waves of doubt, questions on God's perfect-will and timing, wondering whether I misinterpreted the Lord's call on my life, etc. Yet through every low valley and muddy pit, my position could not be more clearly stated than what King David wrote early in the Psalms:

Let all those rejoice who put their trust in You;
Let them ever shout for joy, because You defend them;
Let those also who love Your name be joyful in You.
For You, O LORD, will bless the righteous;
With favor You will surround him as with a shield. (Psalm 5: 11 - 12)

I have experienced the shield of the Lord constantly surrounding my heart as He daily guides me away from myself and closer to the righteousness of Jesus. Never would I trade even an ounce of these struggles for the great potential I see the Lord building all around me.

 

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