It's not just any Mondy meeting, it is "Meet with Jesus Monday!"
Back in the days when I was working full time out of the home; Monday meetings were always a time to get on the same page with everyone involved in the projects for the week--touch base before the week's appointments and tasks.
Well, I've decided to focus my week--my Mondays from here on out with Jesus. I have chosen to begin my days with Him, for it is His love that inspires and compels me to love. I've decided it best to touch base with Him and blog about Him to start off the week. I hope and pray that you will join me. I love to have girlfriends around to share in the FUN and we can learn together!
We learn about Jesus by reading about Him in His Word. Please don't just take my word for it, but read it for yourself. I would love to read to you, but my hands are full with reading to my 10 month old--yes, I am already reading to him about how much Jesus loves him with a little devotional and this is also one of his favorites...."Animal Sounds."
He loves to hear me say the animal sounds and tickle his belly when the bee goes buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...
Okay--back to our Monday Meeting:
I recently read John 11 and underlined the words "Jesus wept." Oh, how I long to see my Jesus weep or at least get teary-eyed over some of my heartaches in this life. Don't you just love it when a girlfriend feels your pain and she can't help but cry when you cry and hurt when you hurt.
The truth is--Jesus gets us and our pain, even better than any BFF!
So I read John 11:1-37 and like I said, verse 35 jumped off of the page,"Jesus wept." Then the two verses following it spoke to my heart, for just as I can tell that my girlfriends love me when they cannot hold back their tears, the Jews saw and spoke out loud, "See how he loved..."
Then there were those who chose to focus on what Jesus did not do...and pointed out that He could have stopped this painful act of death and kept His friends from experiencing this pain.
Many times I know I have sat confused asking God why He did not stop the pain from suffocating my heart. I did not feel love in those situations...I did not see that Jesus was weeping with me.
So often I want to ask God why? Why did you allow this?
You could have stopped this--why did you allow this pain to hit my heart?
Oh, I wish I could say I said more often, I see and feel Jesus weeping with me--He is sad that this is what is before me right now. I meditated on these scriptures a while and I believe God showed me something back at the beginning of Chapter 11 in verse 4...
"This sickness--this trial--this struggle--this pain will not end in death--no it is for God's glory so that God's Son may be glorified through it."
I hope you can read this and take it as if Jesus is speaking to you too...
"[insert your name], this sickness--this trial--this struggle--this pain will not end in death--no it is for God's glory so that God's Son may be glorified through it."
All I can muster in my heart is a great big THANK YOU JESUS!
No matter what comes before us, may we choose to see Him weeping and see that He loves us!
Just as I type this I am at the park typing with my little guy and we are watching the ducks in the pond. These are the first real ducks that my boy has seen. Like I said, I have introduced them to him through the book, "Animal Sounds," which I read to him just about every day..."What do the ducks say? Quack, quack, quack, quack!" As he giggled seeing the ducks I sense God telling me in my soul that it is that easy...read about me in my Word and then look for me in your days. He will bring life to our days--and not just on Mondays!
Join me girlfriends--let's dare to see Jesus at least get teary-eyed over our heartaches and say without a doubt, "Jesus loves us!"
Back in the days when I was working full time out of the home; Monday meetings were always a time to get on the same page with everyone involved in the projects for the week--touch base before the week's appointments and tasks.
Well, I've decided to focus my week--my Mondays from here on out with Jesus. I have chosen to begin my days with Him, for it is His love that inspires and compels me to love. I've decided it best to touch base with Him and blog about Him to start off the week. I hope and pray that you will join me. I love to have girlfriends around to share in the FUN and we can learn together!
He loves to hear me say the animal sounds and tickle his belly when the bee goes buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...
Okay--back to our Monday Meeting:
I recently read John 11 and underlined the words "Jesus wept." Oh, how I long to see my Jesus weep or at least get teary-eyed over some of my heartaches in this life. Don't you just love it when a girlfriend feels your pain and she can't help but cry when you cry and hurt when you hurt.
The truth is--Jesus gets us and our pain, even better than any BFF!
So I read John 11:1-37 and like I said, verse 35 jumped off of the page,"Jesus wept." Then the two verses following it spoke to my heart, for just as I can tell that my girlfriends love me when they cannot hold back their tears, the Jews saw and spoke out loud, "See how he loved..."
Then there were those who chose to focus on what Jesus did not do...and pointed out that He could have stopped this painful act of death and kept His friends from experiencing this pain.
Many times I know I have sat confused asking God why He did not stop the pain from suffocating my heart. I did not feel love in those situations...I did not see that Jesus was weeping with me.
So often I want to ask God why? Why did you allow this?
You could have stopped this--why did you allow this pain to hit my heart?
Oh, I wish I could say I said more often, I see and feel Jesus weeping with me--He is sad that this is what is before me right now. I meditated on these scriptures a while and I believe God showed me something back at the beginning of Chapter 11 in verse 4...
"This sickness--this trial--this struggle--this pain will not end in death--no it is for God's glory so that God's Son may be glorified through it."
I hope you can read this and take it as if Jesus is speaking to you too...
"[insert your name], this sickness--this trial--this struggle--this pain will not end in death--no it is for God's glory so that God's Son may be glorified through it."
All I can muster in my heart is a great big THANK YOU JESUS!
I will not die--you sweet girlfriend will not die because of this--
because of the love Jesus has shown us--we will live!!
Just as I type this I am at the park typing with my little guy and we are watching the ducks in the pond. These are the first real ducks that my boy has seen. Like I said, I have introduced them to him through the book, "Animal Sounds," which I read to him just about every day..."What do the ducks say? Quack, quack, quack, quack!" As he giggled seeing the ducks I sense God telling me in my soul that it is that easy...read about me in my Word and then look for me in your days. He will bring life to our days--and not just on Mondays!
Join me girlfriends--let's dare to see Jesus at least get teary-eyed over our heartaches and say without a doubt, "Jesus loves us!"
2 comments:
Love reading this, Julie - it truly spoke to my heart this morning :) love you!
Thank you for your comment Jeni :) Praying for you and asking Jesus to make His presence known to you today and the rest of this week. Let's go live like we are loved today, tomorrow and the next day, and the next....
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