How’re your memory verses going? I usually go over mine when we are out on a walk. I recite them, cards set in my stroller’s caddy, as we walk around the neighborhood. It refreshes me spiritually and physically and I definitely feel it when I haven’t been out in a few days.
This familiar verse seems like one I should already have hidden in my heart; I’ve needed it as a reminder this month. I’ve been feeling like so much of my struggle with contentment comes from being so self-focused, when in reality, the smaller and weaker my self is, the more Jesus can be strong in me and shine through.
I’m really trying to take captive all the crummy stuff I’m facing these days– impatience, discontent, insecurity, lack of control– and give it all over to the Lord. I’ve been feeling especially weak in these areas lately and I’m clinging to the thought that when I am weak, He is strong.
His grace is sufficient. It doesn’t make life easy, but it gets me through the day, because as I relinquish, let go and abandon those thoughts, He is able to take His place in my life as the Blessed Controller.
What’s your verse for March?
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I like what you had to say about your verse. God’s been showing me recently just how much I depend on myself and try to live self-sufficiently instead of in His strength.
With my verses, I did really good for awhile (working on Mt 5), but it was all the “blessed is the…” that I kind of already knew just not in the right order. The last few weeks I’ve been working on the same two verses without much success and to be honest I haven’t been reviewing them throughout the day, which hasn’t helped. But I want…I think I’ll put them somewhere I’ll see more often as a reminder.
The Pete and I are memorizing Psalm 147:5
“Great is our Lord and mighty in power; his understanding has no limit.”
All month his Sunday School lessons demonstrate God’s power, might, and understanding.
Thanks for being so open about what God is teaching you (sometimes we have to learn the hard way)
In preparation for our one-night retreat with the MOMS group, I’ve been reading (and should start actually memorizing) 1 Thessalonians 2:4 For we speak as messengers who have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News. Our purpose is to please God, not people. He is the one who examines the motives of our hearts.
I think I forgot to post my Feb verse: God, who has called you into fellowship with His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, is faithful. 1 Corinthians 1:9 (NIV)
My verse for March is: Satisfy us in the morning with Your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days. Psalm 90:14 (NIV)
Thanks for sharing, you guys. I love hearing what the Lord is teaching you and what you’re learning about Him these days.
Mom, that was the theme verse (your march one) at one of my women’s retreats several years ago. I love that verse and at that retreat I wrote a song based on it…. I’ve forgotten it by now but I should try to remember it!
Here’s mine for March:
Eph 4:1
As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received.
I think it’s so awesome how one little sentence can be so full and rich with meaning.