True Truth...
I'm sitting in the recliner-reading...and enjoying this rainy day. It is early in the morning, and I have the fireplace cranked up. It's supposed to hit sixty degrees today...but not yet! I just need some 'coziness' for what feels like a chilled body. Listening to rain pelt against the window panes has always been a pleasure for me, and today is no different. Maybe it's the steady drumming of the raindrops creating a soothing, almost hypnotic effect over me. All is right in my world-at least in this moment.
My mind drifts to a recent conversation I had with a dear friend. She asked me if I had received results from a pathology report done on an area of growth removed from my neck. I told her 'not yet', and that I wasn't the least bit concerned about it. Honestly, I hadn't even thought about it. I said I was convinced it was nothing, but even if it did turn out to be 'something', I would be so okay with that. I joked with her that I just wanted to live long enough to be debt-free when I die-don't want to leave a legacy of debt! (Big laugh...)
Later that day, I began to think more seriously about the potential outcome of that pathology report. What if the results were serious...even life-threatening? Would I really be okay with that? As I continued in this new direction of thought, I found myself admitting to the Lord - "I'm a coward!" Now I really began to question just how I would handle such a truth. Could this be 'fear' now creeping in...threatening to bombard me?
Thankfully, I realized that all of these new thoughts were merely that-thoughts. They were not my current truth. My current truth was that I did not know for a fact just what had been taken out of my neck. My current truth was that I had been given this day, this time, this moment that the Lord had made-and I would rejoice and be glad in it. There is no harm in me thinking about 'possibilities', but there could be great harm if I turn those 'possibilities' into 'truths' that don't actually exist. Doing so tarnishes my point of view and keeps me from thinking clearly and hopefully.
I may not yet know the truth about that place that was removed from my neck, but I know THE Truth-Jesus Christ. He is all-knowing, all-powerful, and in control of all things. He both knows and holds my future. I must choose to live in His moments of true truth and not conjure up my own version of truth based on unknowns or wishful thinking. I must allow Him to help me live out the truth of Philippians 4: 4-7... "Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus." (NIV)
Libby
My mind drifts to a recent conversation I had with a dear friend. She asked me if I had received results from a pathology report done on an area of growth removed from my neck. I told her 'not yet', and that I wasn't the least bit concerned about it. Honestly, I hadn't even thought about it. I said I was convinced it was nothing, but even if it did turn out to be 'something', I would be so okay with that. I joked with her that I just wanted to live long enough to be debt-free when I die-don't want to leave a legacy of debt! (Big laugh...)
Later that day, I began to think more seriously about the potential outcome of that pathology report. What if the results were serious...even life-threatening? Would I really be okay with that? As I continued in this new direction of thought, I found myself admitting to the Lord - "I'm a coward!" Now I really began to question just how I would handle such a truth. Could this be 'fear' now creeping in...threatening to bombard me?
Thankfully, I realized that all of these new thoughts were merely that-thoughts. They were not my current truth. My current truth was that I did not know for a fact just what had been taken out of my neck. My current truth was that I had been given this day, this time, this moment that the Lord had made-and I would rejoice and be glad in it. There is no harm in me thinking about 'possibilities', but there could be great harm if I turn those 'possibilities' into 'truths' that don't actually exist. Doing so tarnishes my point of view and keeps me from thinking clearly and hopefully.
I may not yet know the truth about that place that was removed from my neck, but I know THE Truth-Jesus Christ. He is all-knowing, all-powerful, and in control of all things. He both knows and holds my future. I must choose to live in His moments of true truth and not conjure up my own version of truth based on unknowns or wishful thinking. I must allow Him to help me live out the truth of Philippians 4: 4-7... "Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus." (NIV)
Libby
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