Little Blessings
I feel so inspired by God’s goodness, as if He has wrapped up today as a gift to me, and I just wanted to write about it.
The background is that for a little while I have been feeling spiritually dry. Just really parched. Lots of questions for God. Really busy. Feeling a little down. That kind of thing. If you’ve been able to see the slide show below, there was that one photo with the dry, dry earth and that scripture that says, ‘my soul thirsts for You, my flesh longs for You in a dry and thirsty land’ Psalm 63:1. As I prepared that photo I thought how much that sums up this past while spiritually.
So today, I heard one of my favourite teachers was in town. He used to live in my home city when I first became a Christian, and his testimony and his passion for God always stirred me so much, so I knew that no matter what, I had to be in church today.
It’s hard to put into words the effect his teaching had. People talk about ‘spiritual food,’ well today I learnt what that meant. It truly felt my soul and my spirit was being given food, and I never even realised how starved I was. God reminded me of Psalm 63:1 above, about our soul and our flesh thirsting for Him, being so in need of being satiated by Him.
It had such an effect on me that I decided to go to the evening service as well. This time is was on the outskirts of the city, and as I don’t have a car, it was amazing to find some friends who could drive me at short notice. So I went again this evening, and once again, God Himself was there to minister to me.
The blessing was not only hearing this wonderful blessing of a teacher, and being nourished by God, but actually coming face to face with Him again. How easily we can get off track when troubles come, and question and doubt, and feel heaviness set in, but God in His complete goodness, drew me back, and more than that He said to me, ‘I am here, I am real and I am good.’ As the teacher said, He may not be tangible to touch, but His effect in us is tangible.
I came out of church, feeling so content in Him, and as if that wasn’t enough, God blessed us even more. As we walked through the doors and into dark evening, it was like God opened the window of heaven with a shower of snowflakes. I was arm in arm with a dear friend of mine on this gorgeous cobbled street, as the snow softly fell on our hair, and on our faces. It was beautiful, I can’t tell you. This very rarely happens where I live, so it really felt special. Even now as I look out into the dark winter streets, the pavement is thick with white. I feel God’s goodness and His loving kindness as a Father wanting to fill His daughter’s day with little blessings. How good He is. He is so good!
Don’t ever forget it girl….God is good …when?…all the time! And…we can trust him! Look forward to spa-ing with you tomorrow and some more God chats! Maybe we should build a snowman in Green Park before hand…ha-ha!
Ha, ha, ha, love it! Yeah He really is so good, huh. Love you Sands, see you tomorrow.
so beautiful :) and so good how He gently draws u back in with open arms.
I know exactly what you mean Birgit about understanding for the first time how He fills us… like food. how we NEED and thirst & hunger for Him… I just recently have been reflecting and undersatnding that as well. I have realized so much how many cravings I have for food — flesh food and how that cravign really is for Him. I haven’t been “fasting” but I have been purposely eating less as a resolution the past weeks… and any time I am hungry — I pause adn reflect — am I flesh hunger or just hungry for Him. So many times I was mistaking that and filling myself with food only.
anyway just rambling. so now I am turning to Him and letting Him fill me and it’s amazing how He raelly is enough!! unlike food which never never never fulfills the cravings!!!!! :) so it’s helped me lose weight and be so much healthier and much more than that —- He is filling me with Him..
anyway! :) hope that made sense i’m a bit rushed.
love!!!
What a beautiful story, Birgit. Comparing the end of the day, with how it began….I would say that God opened the floodgates of Heaven…and poured your cup full to running over….
Please go to my blog and read Found-My Best Friend. I too feel like God wrapped up the day and gave it to me as a present. He is GOOD all the time but some days we just feel it so much more! Shepherdsheart.wordpress.com
feeling the parched, dry, wornout thing…and asking HIM to fill me again…do you think this is just the norm..you know so that we will thirst for HIM..seems like it to me. don’t know. But waiting on HIS goodness to wrap me up, and I will take the day if HE gives it to me.
Randi, it makes perfect sense, it is so good to hear about what God is doing in your life in this area. Good on you! I know what you mean by this actually, mistakening spiritual or emotional hunger, with physical hunger. I think it’s wonderful how you are making the effort to distinguish and then seek after God when you realise it’s Him you are craving! :) So good, love and blessings to you.
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That is a beautiful way to put it Dwight, and yes, that is very much how it felt, God is good!
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Hi shepherdsheart, welcome, and thanks for your reply. Thanks too for the invitation to your post, I’ll look forward to reading this as it sounds like God has really blessed you. I know what you mean, sometimes we really experience His goodness in a really special way :)
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Darla, it sounds like you relate to the dry feeling, I hope you are OK, you are always so caring in the way you pray for others, please know I’ll be praying for you. Is the dryness the norm? Good question. I’m not sure how others experience it, but I experience the dryness a lot, but you know, I would love to think God is growing me so that I am walking refreshed in Him more and more :) I would so love that, I’m not quite there yet, but I’m so hopeful with God. As I’ve been writing this, that verse from the Psalms came into my heart, you know in Psalm 1, where it talks about us delighting in the law of the Lord, and how we will be like trees planted by rivers of water, whose leaves will not wither. I just had to look that up, ha, ha. What beautiful pictures our God gives us, huh. That gives me hope, that verse. So yeah maybe He does allow the dryness so we go to Him more and more with our thirst :) lots of love.
This reminds me that God is personal and cares about the details in our lives. So wonderful how He blessed and refreshed you:) He meets us where we are.
I saw on the news the UK has had very heavy snow now. Must be a pain to travel in, but beautiful to look at! Blessings
Snow is mysterious and intricately laced with the wonder of who God is in His beauty and faithfulness. Thanks for sharing your day.
So true, Rain, He does meet us exactly where we are, and He cares so much for us. Yeah, the snow has been beautiful. It also meant we were house-bound yesterday, as our local transport came to a stand still. Quite an unusual thing :)
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Hi @ngie, I really know what you mean. There is such beauty to snow, such a peacefulness about it. Because I see it so rarely, I am always so blessed by it.