The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his Lord. Matt.10:24 This verse is the basis's for the thoughts here in this post. What He has experienced is an example of what we could experience and why then are we so surprised at trials? Our journey begins when He calls us unto himself and we by faith reach out and touch the hem of his garment as the woman did in Matt. 9., we confess to him that we need him, we are sinners, and he cleanses us through his blood. Then in Mark 10:50, and he casting away his garment, rose and came to Jesus, we are to put away the old life and put on his garment. Acts 12:8, ....Cast thy garment about thee and follow me. So then we follow and thus we are new born babes in Christ, we are wrapped with his garment again, in a sense in swaddling cloth, growing in grace and knowledge of the Lord. As we are on this journey of faith we will likely have many garments to put on, sometimes it shall be a garment of praise, Is.60:3, ...a garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. Should not we wear this one often, offering thanks in all things? It's hard! Now as we trod forward there are so many days, years that we shall wear the garment of light, maybe all seems so simple, Ps.104:2, Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment. As Christ had to wear a scarlet robe, Matt. 27:28-31, and put on him a scarlet robe...and they spit upon him...and after that they mocked him, it was a garment of such that entailed mocking and scouragings, remembering we are not above our master, therefore we too might have to endure railings and mocking from others as we follow Christ, his garment upon us! Then there be the times of being clothed with the garment of the deep, trials as such, Ps 104:4, thou coverest it with a deep as with a garment. We do not understand his ways nor the garment of the trial that he has put on us, who can discover the face of his garment, Job 41:13. Sometimes we are given our own raiment, as he too received, they took the robe off from him, and put his own raiment on him, and led him away to crucify him, Matt.27:31. We are given our own raiment, our own cross to carry and this one is the heaviest of all, it is the sackcloth or garment of mourning, Ps. 69:11, I made a sackcloth also my garment. But you know what, these garments will be worn for a while here on this earth but they shall all wax old as a garment and one day we will get that wedding garment on and we will put on the white robes, Rev. 7:9. We thus shall be clothed in his garment of righteousness!!!!! As I thought about all these garments that we will very likely be called to wear, he wore them, so why should we not?? It just gives me encouragement to keep going on this journey knowing the garment of sackcloth that I am wearing is not in vain! I do not know what garment you are having to wear right now, and I prayerfully say I hope you have first of all touched the hem of his garment, may he give us grace to seek to have the garment of praise on in the midst of our circumstances! Still learning.........
Work, work around here, Terry is getting the garden ready for fall planting. We still have okra and tomatoes going now, hoping to keep them from the heat to take to the farmer's market. I think some are going to work on the fences on the lease land. Mercy is taking a nap and I am becoming very sleepy as I write this. I think my situation has pretty much ended, so thankful it was much easier this time! Last night we helped our friend David with some stuff at his house and he served us dinner, thanks David!!!! And if you hear us hollering on August 5th, it will be because we are hooked up to high speed internet, thanks to David finding a connection about 5 miles from here. Oh I hope it works, this dial-up is soooooooo slow and such a pain!!! Anna is still making zucchini bread like crazy!!!! So I guess thats about it around here, I was so looking forward to being pregnant and getting to journal it with you all, maybe the Lord will have mercy and grant it yet! I told Terry the other night if I were to get pregnant again, I was not going to tell anyone until the baby got here! :) We'll see........
Thanks for stopping by...... (pictures in a bit , when Anna gets back)
Cindy
2 comments:
It's so neat how the Lord has been using your blog to confirm and bolster what He is showing me! This morning during our family devotions the words to "On Christ The Solid Rock I Stand" kept rolling through my mind, specifically the lines, "Dressed in His righteousness alone,
Faultless to stand before the throne." I was dwelling on the impending need to be clothed in His imparted righteousness alone, so that all others see is Him, not my faults, not the wrong things I've done in the past, not the baggage I've made for them, but rather His righteousness, so that I am faultless in their eyes, as well as in the Father's.
I think I'm also in need of being clothed in the armor of God. I'm working on wearing layers! There's some sackcloth and also the garment of praise and a lot of longing for the "white robes".....!
That's great that you were able to help your friend and that he is able to help you! It's so beautiful to see the body of Christ serving one another!
May God bless you and I'm praying for you all!
( : In His Righteousness : )
I remember reading a while back that you use Arbonne products. After hearing about your miscarriages it reminded me of Arbonne's Phyto Prolief cream. It's a hormone balancing cream. I'm unfortunately unable to articulate all of the benefits of this cream but I'm sure your Arbonne consultant can tell you about it, and if not, then there's plenty of info on the internet. One of our friends began using Phyto Prolief when her youngest child was around 10. The friend later teased that the son that soon arrived should've been named Phyto. It's just something I've thought about that the Lord might use to help..... Also something else that's come to mind is the fact that fluoride causes infertility. So it might be beneficial to not use a toothpaste with fluoride in it! There's tons of other info and I'm certain that you're infinitely more versed in the subject than I am (:, but these were just two things that'd I'd been thinking about and wanted to share with you! :)
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