I woke up later than normal wanting and hoping that I would wake up with a marvelous, Facebook post-worthy “Waking Thought.” I woke up and headed to my computer but no marvelous, post-worthy thoughts were surfacing. I tried to force one and it was a complete failure. Opening Pastor Eric’s Weekly Devotional I was thinking to myself “Kimi you need to grow up spiritually and not be so dependent on others.” Then I thought “Kimi you are AWESOME, I am pretty sure we were all made differently each with different gifts. You may have the same gift as another Christ-follower, but does it look the same? NO WAY! If it did we wouldn’t be blessed differently by all of the Churches in this city, so keep on doing what you do best because someone might be touched. I’ve been struggling with the idea of having new friends….oh no, do I have to wear a façade, be who I’m not with these friends? Then I thought about yesterday and of how my friend and I had the best facade-less conversation! I’ve been praying that I would meet a great group of Christian friends for a while (a benefit of keeping a prayer journal is that I can pinpoint exactly when I started praying about this). Even better is I recently was given the opportunity to hang out with the original group of great friends (that I felt like I had to wear facade around) and they are still awesome! The best thing was I was facade-less! This was peace that couldn’t seem to come fast enough. How quickly I forget that Jesus is right on time!!! I read this and laugh at myself....I often think I'm having to wear a facade when in actuality the ""facade"" par say is the nervousness of making that first impression. Nervous? Me? Believe it or not, it happens!
WEEKLY DEVOTION FROM PASTOR ERIC
“Now may the Lord of peace Himself
give you peace always in every way.” II Thess. 3:16
This has been an interesting week in
regards to experiencing peace. One night I found myself resting so securely in
God’s peace. Then the next night I was up late wrestling with my pillow and the
numerous things on my mind. Maybe you can relate? This is why I found this
verse to be so encouraging. Jesus is the Lord of peace. Not our logic,
resources, or answers. He rules and reigns over all things. All things are
truly under His feet. He has conquered sin and death providing eternal life.
Though we can be in a place where we are perplexed, we can experience the peace
of God as we draw near to Him because our trust in Jesus Himself is the source
of our peace.
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