Why God Made Me This Way October 23, 2011

WHY GOD MADE ME THIS WAY?

* When I started my blog I began from when Kirk and I got married and told the story of how God has brought us to where we are. If you go back to the beginning of my blog you will see how God’s hand has guided us through good and bad times. I also share in my blog how God brought my family through my battle with breast cancer. To God be the Glory!

Do you ever wonder why you are the person you are? I like to look at myself as God’s masterpiece still learning as I go. Everyone handles difficult situations in many different ways. I like to look at myself as a beautiful flower blooming and growing each day. We know that a flower needs water and lots of care to stay beautiful. So I need to grow more in God’s word to help me know how to act and respond in the difficult situations to stay healthy and be the beautiful masterpiece God created me to be.

Don’t ever doubt why you were created. God knew you before you were ever born and has a great purpose for you. You are God’s masterpiece and He wants you to strive to do the very best you can each day. You are so special that God knows you by name and knows every hair that you have on your head. Yes, you are someone very special!!!! God does not make junk! I think God’s Word sums it up……read the scripture below!

SCRIPTURE:
Who in the world do you think you are to second-guess God? Do you for one moment suppose any of us knows enough to call God into question? Clay doesn’t talk back to the fingers that mold it, saying, “Why did you shape me like this?” Isn’t it obvious that a potter has a perfect right to shape one lump of clay into a vase for holding flowers and another into a pot for cooking beans? If God needs one style of pottery especially designed to show his angry displeasure and another style carefully crafted to show his glorious goodness, isn’t that all right? Either or both happens to Jews, but it also happens to the other people. Hosea put it well: 

I’ll call nobodies and make them somebodies; 
I’ll call the unloved and make them beloved. 
 In the place where they yelled out, “You’re nobody!” 
they’re calling you “God’s living children.” Isaiah maintained this same emphasis: 
If each grain of sand on the seashore were numbered 
and the sum labeled “chosen of God,” They’d be numbers still, not names; 
salvation comes by personal selection. 
God doesn’t count us; he calls us by name.
Romans 9:20 (The Message)

In Difficult Situations of LIFE, You Can Find Joy March 31, 2009

Friday, May 12, 2006

As I read the rest of Psalm 30 the end of the chapter it said verse 11 “You have turned my wailing into dancing and clothed me with joy” and that is exactly what He did for me.  I was so full of joy in the darkest time in my life.

PSALM 30:1-12

₁I will extol You, O LORD, for You have lifted me up, And have not let my foes rejoice over me. ² O LORD my God, I cried out to You, And You healed me. ³ O LORD, You brought my soul up from the grave; You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.⁴ Sing praise to the LORD, you saints of His, And give thanks at the remembrance of His holy name. ⁵ For His anger is but for a moment, His favor is for life; Weeping may endure for a night, But joy comes in the morning.  ⁶ Now in my prosperity I said, “I shall never be moved.” ⁷ LORD, by Your favor You have made my mountain stand strong; You hid Your face, and I was troubled.  ⁸ I cried out to You, O LORD; And to the LORD I made supplication:  ⁹ “What profit is there in my blood, When I go down to the pit? Will the dust praise You? Will it declare Your truth? ¹⁰ Hear, O LORD, and have mercy on me; LORD, be my helper!” ¹¹ You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; You have put off my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness,  ¹² To the end that my glory may sing praise to You and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks to You forever.

“You have turned my wailing into dancing and clothed me with joy” Psalm 30:11

In the difficult situations of LIFE, you can find joy.