The amazing thing about life with Christ is He always seems to throw curve balls when we least expect. Many people that know me personally know how much I love baseball. Today I went with two of my hopefully future roommates to watch the Aggie baseball players scrimmage today. Gig Em. As I was there watching the pitchers throw the ball It reminded me of Christ. Sometimes a player will throw a change up, a curve ball, or just throw a flat out bad pitch. Isn't that kind of like when we are in Christ. Many people come into Christianity thinking your life will be made. You know Christ now. YAYAY. Now God will give you all your hearts desires, you will be showered with blessing everyday, and life will be pretty easy now. WRONG. Yes, of course God showers you with blessings, yes if you have your heart in Christ he will give you the desires of your heart but that's not all. God puts each of us in situations to build us up. Sometimes he might have to throw those curve balls at us to waken us up. You can go up to the plate of life with all the pride in the world that you will get that home run but sometimes God will change up your life in such a way you will not be able to know which pitch. I have no idea if I am making much sense specially if you don't get baseball but let me break this down.
Have you ever wanted something so bad and then somehow everything gets all messed up? Have you ever fought so hard, and felt every great effort you mustered up went to waste? If you have then you must know disappointment. That's life. I have gone through this day being blessed with many things, but I still felt "blah." That's how humans are. We can have it all in life but somehow want more. I pray over each one of yalls heart. That you would have peace in the fact life wont go the way you planned. That life will get all messed up, and sometimes make NO SENSE. All the while God has orchestrated a better plan. Why should each one of us settle for the things that hurt us, and not hold on to Christ that showers us with love. I have known so many people who have trusted in Christ who never regretted it, but then go back to do the same old sin. To be honest I have done that very thing. Why would anyone do that if we know God's deliverance is truly breath taking. Its probably cause we "feel" it is right. Its probably because we doubt Christ will deliver us again. In times I feel like stepping back into the past, or do something that will only hurt me in the end I remember God. I remember that He has gotten me through so many things before, and so He wont stop now. Philippians 1:6 says, " And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns." How beautiful is that vision. That the perfect king above will not stop doing what he is doing in us until His Son returns. When you feel pain, when you feel restless, and tears will not stop running know this: YOU ARE LOVED. GOD IS WORKING IN YOU. Do not be afraid: do not be discouraged (Joshua 1:9). This also reminds me of the age old saying that anyone who is reading this has probably heard : "If God brings you to it, he will bring you through it."All I have to say is Wow. Each thing God does in our life is for our good. It is to sanctify us, or to wipe away all things we try to build up so high that becomes higher than Him.
The last thing I would like to say is how unbelievably imperfect I truly am. I am not doing this to show how Godly I am. I still have a lot to learn about life, and Christ. Not that any of us are ever going to understand Christ fully, but I am still taking steps at understanding lots of things. I still struggle with my appearance, and feeling whole in Christ. But take Paul in the bible. For those that do not know Paul he was in charge of killing people in the bible before he was struck by Christ on the way to a town called Damascus. He had all the knowledge in the world about a lot of things, but still he was lost until He was found. You can know all these facts about Christ but never truly know Him. Thats why I am doing this. I want to try and be an encouragement. I want to encourage those to pursue Christ. This blog may never be seen by anyone, or only one. If that person even thinks of Christ thats all I want. I may not have it all together but I know I have Christ. Thats all that is needed. Now I am taking the steps to trust in Him more daily. My path of life has been rough, but through that I have been enriched by Christ. My title for this blog is called, "Pour Down Like Rain." I named it this because each day of my life lately has experienced some type of down pour. Whether it be sin in my heart, or not truly trusting Christ with EVERYTHING. I want Christ to pour down in my life like rain. He is always by our side. He is always pushing us more and more towards righteousness. To our calling. All you have to do is listen. Hes ready to speak into your life through your struggles. Will you answer?
Be Blessed,
AnnaCaroline
Word of God speak
Would You pour down like rain
Washing my eyes to see
Your majesty- Word of God Speak-Mercy Me
Hebrews 11:3
"Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear."
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