Walk By Faith

I'm not sure that anyone has noticed but it has been almost two months since my last blog. You see, I began to think as the world does. I wanted to feel important. I wanted to be recognized. I wanted others to respond to my posts. I wanted to feel like I was making a difference. You'll see that there was a lot of me wanting to take the credit for what I was writing here. I had to take some time off and think about what this blog is about-His Glory, not Cherrie's glory. Plus, I had to admit I was a little disappointed. I had felt God tugging at my heart to write these blogs for quite a while and I had expected something dramatic to happen if I answered yes. Perhaps someone would be touched by my blogs and come back to the Lord. Perhaps a person would be brought to faith. Maybe someone would react in a different way than they normally do. Maybe others would read the blogs and feel they could go on with life as they relied on Jesus, not on themselves.

I began to feel like my blog was not that important. So over the past two months I have been thinking and listening to God. This is what I have discovered. First of all, this blog is not about me. If I can't make it God's then I don't want to blog or at least not under the name of "His Glory". Secondly, it is not up to me to make things happen. God is the one that will open hearts and change people-not me! He might do it dramatically or he might do it quietly. I may never know the way he uses the words I write here. What it amounts to is that I will do what he asks and he will take care of the rest. One of my favorite songs is "Walk by Faith" by Jeremy Camp.
These words remind me I need to walk by faith and not by sight.

"Well, I will walk by faith
Even when I cannot see
Well, because this broken road
Prepares your will for me.

Help me to win my endless fears
You've been so faithful for all of my years
With one breath You make me new
Your grace covers all I do."

God also reminds me in his Word that whatever I write in his name will not go forth without results. He tells us this in Isaiah, chapter five, verses eight through eleven.

"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. As the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: it will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire."

So, I will continue to say yes and write for His Glory and He will accomplish what is needed and I will walk by faith. Thanks be to God!