To Endure without Yielding

“The seasons change and you change but the Lord Abides evermore the same and the streams of his love are as deep and as broad and full as ever.” - Spurgeon's

That is how I wanted to start. I did not have a pretty entrance, fancy words, or a story to pull you in. Just a quote from a podcast that made me go yes, that is it.

A few months ago, God tugged on my heart. An idea came to mind that I know was not from me. I was scared. Yet I’ve learned, God often tells us to leap when we are liking the casual walk. This is a leap for me. The fact that I shared this, and the fact that you clicked on it. It might be surprising, considering blogs are something I used to write for fun. This time it’s different.

A few months ago I felt like God wanted me to get back into the writing, and I said okay God, you tell me what you want me to talk about and I will post it. I had a feeling it was more than just a blog. One night, researching something I thought wow. Nobody talks about this, but man does it hurt people. Doesn’t everyone feel like this sometimes. So that’s the vision. A vision of figuring out what the bible says about the hard things, the things that we do not want to talk about.

Know that this was prayed over. Know that these blogs I will share in the coming weeks were discussed and typed, redicussed, prayed over more, and typed again before they would ever be shared.

As you can probably tell, the word that could not leave me when thinking about what this blog would be, is Abide. I want to see at what it looks like to Abide within the Lord, in different circumstances, in different situations, in different struggles. The hard stuff, but the real stuff.

What comes to mind when writing and thinking about this blog is the definition of the word abide: to endure without yielding. If I could hope for something, for my entire life, it would be that I would endure in what God says without yielding. Without question or concern. That I would abide in The Lord’s  promises and never waver in that faith. I will be the first to tell you, I’m not good at that yet. I hope that while searching what the Bible says about the words and topics selected in the next few weeks, I will grow in that. That anyone reading this, will grow in that. My prayer is that these next few weeks or even forever that  I/we learn to Abide.

I want you to know if you read something that you don’t think stands with what the bible says, tell me. If there is something you wish someone would talk about, send it to me, anonymously, not anonymously, in the mail, in a snapchat, & I’ll get researching.

I am thankful for you. I’ve been praying for you.

xoxo

Rachel