so a couple weeks ago, as i was praying the Lord impressed upon my heart the word "abide". i remember texting a couple friends that the Lord gave me that word during the morning and asked for prayer. in john 15 before it talks about abiding, it talks about pruning. as i think about pruning, i think about my post from yesterday... pruning sometimes is about the "hope deferred", it could be painful. i think of all the times that God had to prune me from... even the evilest of sin that i needed pruning in was a painful process, but at least then i knew that it was because i needed that out of my life... sometimes the good is pruned from us because the Lord sees it unfit for our lives. today the Lord brought these words back into my life through my professor during my spiritual formation group.
i go back to the abiding and the second part of the verse of "hope deferred". you see at times of the pruning, it is so important that we are abiding in Christ... that our source is deeper and fuller than the part that is being pruned off and that life is fulfilled when our desires are met... and that desire is met only in Christ. what an important word for us to remember!
as A and i awake from a good afternoon nap, i pray this over all of you... that your lives will be abiding in Christ to experience His fullness and richness and when times of pruning do come, that your source of life would be much deeper and fuller than that part that is being pruned.
i just want to emphasize that i am so thankful that i could experience God's faithfulness and sovereign hand in my life!! WHAT AN AWESOME GOD WE SERVE!!!
