As I have been going through the past couple of weeks things have been seemingly getting harder and just more distracted in my mind.  Everything has had to have more effort and more energy to get done.  And I guess you might have noticed that I have not blogged in a couple of days.  

Now those of you around me and have asked how things are going and I responded fine…don’t be offended.  I really did not have an answer to give you as I did not know what was going on per say in my own mind.  I figured it out this morning though and I wanted to take time to share with you guys as I hope that I can help everyone avoid the same struggles that I have (yet I know you do and will so hopefully we can just learn from one another).

I, in my quiet time this morning (hint, hint if I didn’t blog, I missed a quiet time (accountability partners you know who you are)) was reading in the Gospel of John and the Lord really spoke to me when I read:

John 14:21 (New International Version)
21Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him.” 

And I realized that I once again have taken up my own yoke and have walked away from the presence of my Heavenly Father.  I think by far this is one of the biggest things that I struggle with in my life in that my pride starts to kick in and I begin to try to handle everything in my own power instead of picking up His yoke as we are commanded to do.  So based on the scripture that I shared above I have his commands but I was not obeying, therefore I was not in a place where God could show himself to me.  Now I still saw God working around me but I was not prepared for it or just flat out ignored it because I had my own issues to deal with.

 I have a conversation with my earthly dad all the time about when you are a child you don’t know how good you have it because everything is taken care of for you.  But in reality this is the same for us adults.  Yes, we do have to pay our own bills and manually take care of things now but we don’t have to worry about how things will be supplied either the same way my children don’t worry if there is going to be food in the pantry when they open it.  God wants us to be obedient to His commandments and then He will show himself to us through provision and blessings and works in our lives.   So who wouldn’t want that? 

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