Tuesday Writing...12/11/18..."The Ordinary Stone (PT. 2)"

Good Morning,

Today we have Part 2 of a really wonderful devotional about how we can receive thoughts that bless us from ordinary things that God puts in our lives. When we are stuck between a rock and a hard place God gets our attention in the most beautiful ways. Lynda wrote, "I can speak boldly with kindness and generosity as I share the reasons for my joy and the work that the Lord has done and is still doing in me.   Logic is the world’s way of thinking.  Faith can grow when the world sees me forgiving, loving and trusting the Lord – every day."

Look for God's leading in small, ordinary things such as an ordinary stone.

Lynda

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Today's Devotional 

"The Ordinary Stone (PT. 2)" 

Written by 

Lynda Kinnard

The first half of this writing tells of the writer being on a walk. Out of the corner of her eye she spied a rock which she thought was unique and special. She picked it up and began to study it. She started to realize that it was bringing thoughts to her that had lessons in it. She brought it home and put it on her dresser. Here is the rest of the story. If you did not read

PT.1, and should you wish to read it, here is the link...                                                                                     https://womensfocusministries.blogspot.com/2018/12/monday-writing121018the-ordinary-stone.html

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Part 2

The thing that caught my eye was the size.  It was a bit larger than most of the others and
was white, with black marbling.  Not absolute black, but clearly defined in the moment my eyes turned the object into a thought.  We had just gone through a series of teachings about, “One Shade of Black”, so this may have been a continuation or expansion of that lesson.

The truth is the truth.  And sin is sin.  Yet, I was given a picture of myself in that stone.  Mostly “good”, or at least heading in that direction; but still the sum of the things in myself that I need to submit and surrender to the Lord.  A statement that I have made countless times, and still falling short, reaching back, slipping and sliding along that downward slope whenever I try to take charge of myself.

Then, I heard the Sweet, Soothing Voice Within.  The Voice that reminds me that He has already forgiven my past every time I asked Him.  The marbling is my testimony, not my shame.  My rough and bumpy parts are the lessons that I can share with those He places in my path.  I do not need to bury, hide or deny things I have done, or what has been done to me.

I do not need to memorize fighting words from scripture to corner folks and wrestle them into submission. I can speak boldly with kindness and generosity as I share the reasons for my joy and the work that the Lord has done and is still doing in me.   Logic is the world’s way of thinking.  Faith can grow when the world sees me forgiving, loving and trusting the Lord – every day.

We are all living “between a rock and a hard place”.  But that ordinary stone is showing me that the hard place is here and now.  

  

 He brought me into a spacious place.  

The Lord is with me; I will not be afraid.     

What can mere mortals do to me?” 

Psalm 118:4-6





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Elevation Worship
singing
"The Lord is My Rock"

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Yes sometimes we find ourselves between
a rock and a hard place!

But our God is always with us 

to teach us and guide us as we work ourselves

and out lives out of the space we are in.

With God we are never stuck or trapped there.

The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; 

my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, 

my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
Psalm 18:2

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