At The Feet Of Jesus

           Constantly my Heavenly Father is always being faithful to me, He is so good. Even when I really feel like I messed up, or when im totally faithless, the sinner that I am, He still loves me with a faithful, steadfast love. I am so grateful that He keeps me, I don't know where I would would be if He didn't hold me in His hand. It amazes me that He wants us in our brokenness, in those times for me its so apparent that I need Christ, who am I without Him? I am past Nothing, He is my righteousness, my advocate. That's always amazing to me, but I find alot of times its in my brokenness, my weaknesses that I can see that more clearly, with my own self righteousness out of the picture I just see Christ.

        This morning in my devotional Charles Spurgeon says this,"Deep love of Jesus.... Lift up my earth bound soul, and float it right up to my Lord's feet, and there let me lie, a poor broken shell, washed up by His love, having no virtue or value; and only venturing to whisper to Him that if He will put His ear to me, He will hear within my heart faint echoes of vast waves of His own love which have brought me where it is my delight to lie even at His feet forever."  Beautiful this is! oh to lie at my Lord's feet. The nail pierced feet. I always hear "Cast your burdens at the feet of Jesus." But 99% of the time I am my own burdens, must I cast myself at the feet of Jesus? Yes, and with gladness I do. How unworthy an I to lie at the Kings feet, yet because of those nail pierced feet I can.

                                                 With Love,

                                                       Leah.

A Fight For Contentment

     I always knew that, like most people, I can be discontent.  I often would ask the Lord "Why me?" or "Why not me?" I knew of a specific area in my life where I would notice this most, and my disciple would tell me, "We must be content. We must fight for contentment." Honestly it wasn't that hard because the Lord ended up taking away what I wanted, I'm so thankful for His graciousness. It is a amazing thing to get to the point when you can say Lord your all I want and need. But creeping up behind me came my own selfishness, forgetting the goodness of my Lord and back to focusing on myself.
     I remember reading about the Israelites thinking "Wow, there so unthankful, the Lord provides them with food and the next second they want something better." Oh man how I would hate if someone wrote a book on my life because you would see the pattern of the Israelites over and over again. My discontentment is in so many ways connected in Unthanfulness. The Lord in His mighty grace give me a good blessing, and the next day I completely forget about it, I want something different, something, in my mind, better. Psalm 92:1 says "It is good to give thanks to the Lord." Its so good to reflect on all our good Father has done in our lives, to be thankful and focus on Christ not on our self.
       A fight for contentment. Finding contentment in Christ alone can be so difficult. For me its always  coming up again, and again. When a new situation comes up, discontentment fallows. Looking back on my walk, I can say I have been most content when I'm in close fellowship with the Lord. He is my contentment. In Christ is all that my heart truly desires. That famous John Pipper quote say "Christ is most glorified, when we are most satifyed in Him." That being true, then we must fight for it, because Christ is glorified! Our purpose is to glorify God, and enjoy Him forever! "I can do all things through Him who strengthens me."
                             

                                         With Love,
                                              Leah.