Praise the Lord for the freedom in Jesus! I had to laugh as I got several emails about how honest I am and what I am willing to say…yet some of the same sisters not only think what I say but relate with me in so many ways…awwww the freedom in being honest and open. It is now that the Lord is calling me to be even more open and honest that I have been before. I have moved closer to Him and He is calling me to empty it all and let everyone know how awesome He truly is to me.
It is something as I look over my life since starting to write these less than a year ago but the growth that has come in me from doing so. I have to say that it is freedom that I never thought I would have ever had. I am thankful to the Lord for opening the doors for me and keeping me in Him. There is so much more of me to release and so much more to do and go to do!
So the honesty of today is Jealousy…ohhhhh the jealousy that we can hold in our hearts over the dumbest things. There are sisters in the Lord that I USED to be jealous of because they wrote better than me, or they looked better than me, or they spoke better than I did, or their ministry work seemed so more together than mine. It was not a rage of jealousy, it was more like pang of jealous…more like why me not me Lord…why them and not me…LOL Yet the Lord still loved me in those thoughts – THANK YOU JESUS!
As I started to open my heart, ears and mind to the Lord, I have come to understand that my walk is not their walk, my thoughts are not their thoughts, my goals are not their goals, and truly the direction from the Lord is not what their direction is. The Lord has a purpose for me and my purpose is in Him. In my questioning of the direction in this life and what God wants me to do, the Lord has blessed me to seek Him more, to look to Him more and to be still and hear from Him. In doing all of that, I have learned what my purpose is, what my path is and what He wants me to do for now. I have learned that all things come as He wants them to come when I submit myself to Him and in this I am blessed in Him. I know that God is keeping me more in Him as each day passes by. I know that all things will work to my good no matter what I think or what it looks like.
So let me encourage you to not look at what others have or do not have, not at what you have or do not have but look to the Lord in all things. Sure we will fall short, but even in our falling short it will work to our good…let us keep striving to walk with the Lord in all things and know that the Lord is with you through it all.
Until tomorrow…let us continue to walk with the Lord and be free in Jesus!
Love your sister in Christ,
Sister Alissa Lynne
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