Don’t Stay Stuck in an Empty Life
I drove to church the other night in a dense fog and knew right away that no one was going to attend the class I had to teach. Who would want to go out on such a dark January night in pea soup? As I write this, it is now a frigid but bright January day with not a cloud in the sky to impede the breathtaking view of the snowcapped peaks of Glacier National Park.
My Bible reading yesterday was Psalm 16, and I paused at David’s words, “You have made known to me the path of life.” This was a statement I could make for myself. In every direction of my life, the Lord has led me out of the dense fog of the enemy’s attempts to destroy me and onto his bright-as-day path. I’ve walked with the Lord since May of 1977. Oh my goodness, almost 50 years! I testify that he has made known to me the path of life, not just in the long view of eternal life but in every category of my earthly life as well.
God has helped me move from unhealthy eating to the joy of good nutrition and the benefits that come from eating well.
God has helped me go from being a self-centered young married woman to finding delight in serving my husband of 34 years.
God has helped me go from being a person in debt and crying daily over the checkbook balance to a woman who has no debt but an emergency fund instead and who keeps a careful budget.
God has helped me go from not knowing how to cook much and buying fast food all of the time to a woman who makes most meals from scratch at home.
God has helped me go from being a pretty lazy housekeeper to a disciplined housekeeper with good rhythms of cleaning and organizing.
God has helped me go from someone who felt far away from him to someone who can’t go a minute without talking to him and enjoying his presence in my life.
The farther the Lord leads me down the path of life, the more ridiculously confident I become that he can and will completely transform me in every area of my character, habits, skills, and values as I build my home. In the light of Christ, hope expands and the socked-in fog of failure and despair burns away. With him there is no such thing as being stuck in an empty life. I praise him for his faithfulness to deliver an abundance of life that is beyond anything I could have asked or imagined.
If you want a full and overflowing life, follow Jesus. He will make the path of life known to you.
Beautiful! I may put a link to this post on my own blog (https://prairielucasfamily.blogspot.com) Thanks for writing!
What a beautiful family you have. And thank you for the kind words. May God bless you in your own writing.
I would have came to your class if I didn’t live in Arkansas. Transformation is my word of the year and I’m praying God does wonders with me. God bless!
Awwww! I wish you could have come to my class. And by this time next year, I pray you’ll have a beautiful testimony of how God has transformed your life. He’ll do it.
I always love your posts–I relate to so much you write “God has helped me go from being a self-centered young married woman to finding delight in serving my husband”! I am also challenged and convicted by the faithful “one” who showed up on that dreary night. I’m a cold weather wimp and can so easily talk myself into staying home. But as I read this, I thought, I want to be that “one”, who thinks not only of myself and the comfort of home but the leader making the trek to Church. There’s something beautiful about that kind of faithfulness, to show up.
So true! In a generation that tends to show up if they feel like it in the moment, that is an admirable desire.
My favorite quote of the day: “The farther the Lord leads me down the path of life, **the more ridiculously confident I become that He can and will completely transform me** in every area of my character, habits, skills, and values as I build my home.”
I’m finding, through the Holy Spirit, a fresh take on all this myself!! The LORD is so good!!
Thank you, by the way, Christy, for your offer to help with taking charge in my kitchen!! I will probably take you up on that soon; I’ve just been focused elsewhere for a bit.
Thank you for this beautiful, inspiring post!! Did anyone show up for your class? 😀
♡tina
One person came, and one person is worth the time.
I full-heartedly agree!!! 💖
I LOVE “…ridiculously confident…he can and will completely transform me in every area of my character….”!!! AMEN sister! Reminds me of Jesus’ words in John 10:10 “I’ve come that they may have life, and have it abundantly.”
So, how many were at the Bible Study on that “dense fog night”? 🙂
One. But one always matters.