Definitions..............

Definitions..............

There's the dictionary definition, and there are also words, and concepts that we have our OWN definitions for.
How I define love, or protection, or provision, or safety or security............may not be the same as how you define those words.
This week, I had a "letting go" of my definition of certain words and it has been freeing, and yet adds more unknown.
I know, I'm not really making sense.

Let's take the word: provision....provide.
I have wrestled with God on this word, because I have MY definition of what God's provision, or how God should provide "looks like".  If the measure of God's provision in my life, circumstances, etc. hasn't met what I determined needs to be provided for.........it has been a source of "defeat" for me.

Just what the "enemy" wants!  He would want nothing better than for me to be defeated my relationship with God. 
No more! 

So, instead, every time I catch myself  thinking God's love and care for me is measured by how I define love, provision, security, or safety.............I will stop myself. 

OH, how I love the verse in 2 Corinthians 5:7 that reminds me that we walk by faith and not by sight.  We need to live  knowing and believing the truths in God's Word, and not let our feelings hinder what we know to be true.

If you have written your own "dictionary"----put it away. 
God loves you. 
Remember what the first chapter of James says....the trials are to test our faith and produce perseverance. 
They are to make us mature and complete, lacking nothing, AND if we persevere under trial, we will receive the crown of life, reserved for those to love Him.

THAT is worth enduring for....struggling for....believing, hoping, trusting, and having faith for!
God is writing the story of my life, and I will daily give up my definitions, and know that I see in part, but God has the full picture!

Have a blessed holiday weekend!