Tag: lost

Seeking the Lord

On By vickleaIn Scripture1 Comment

When you are seeking something, you are looking hard for it, not just with your eyes but in your mind and heart, trying to find out the last place you saw it and may have put it down.

I love this Scripture verse because it encourages us to seek the Lord, but God shed more light on it for me as I meditated on it this morning. God is NOT the one who is lost! We are. We seek Him so that we can get back on the right path, not so that we can boast about finding Him. He never left, never moved, never was not exactly where He has always been. He is as close as your next prayer and as far as you try to push Him out of your life. God is nearby if that is where you want Him to be, but sometimes in the deepest part of our hearts, we relegate God to a lower place than He deserves and desires, and that is why we need to seek Him daily. I need to put Him on His throne repeatedly and take myself off of it. I think, in my human pride, that I am okay in my life and all is fine…and then, something happens and I know that is not true. When God is not on the throne, when I am not seeking Him daily, then I am the one who is lost and needs to find my way back to where I left Him. Because the truth is that He never leaves me…or you.

A Wonderful Life

On By vickleaIn Scripture4 Comments

One of my favorite holiday movies that I have watched since I was very young is “It’s A Wonderful Life.” Clarence, the angel, is my favorite character as he guides George Bailey into accepting the fact that he is important to others in his life. I just want to say that I haven’t needed an angel to know that I have a wonderful life. I have found the Lord and He has found me, and together we have made my life wonderful.

I was lost in sin and darkness, hopelessly facing a future that was scary and intimidating. Once the Lord came into my life, no matter what I have faced, I have felt loved and cared for. The challenges have been plentiful, but the Lord has always been up to the task of helping me through them. I am an overcomer because of my relationship with the King of Glory!

There’s a lot of “shaking” going on in this old world, but God is the mountain in my life that won’t allow me to be shaken along with everything else. With my eyes fixed on Him, I stand firmly and wait for the shaking to cease.

I love the word picture from this Scripture! A well-watered garden is exactly what I want to be and I go daily to the spring of life found in God’s Word in order to receive the water that I need for that day. It is in Him that I have found the wonderful life that I craved but dared not hope for in my youth. Now I am old and I can look back and see the battles that I have fought and won, with God’s help.

Have a blessed day and remember that you, too, have a wonderful life in the Lord! He is sufficient and always will be.