wearyness

Hi there,
How are you?
I hope that your having a nice day, and nice week.
It's so nice to have this time with you, because for some reason, my computer didn't want to agree with blogger, and froze things.
So now I'm up back and running now.
Today I want to talk to you about weariness, as I look out of over the water, and as I thought back on, the sermon, I thought about, thankfulness. and I honestly thought, when was the last time I actually stopped and thanked God.
I sat in church, and struggled to think as the worship leader, said ''cast you mind back, to the last time that you thanked God.''
Sometimes, it feels like you're running around in the middle of things, and striving for things that you've been working hard for,  and we justify things that we want.
But what happens in that justification, that we think we don't need God.
And that is what I was thinking, and that was wrong, because little by little, God was going out of my life.
I hadn't changed much, but I noticed what was happening, and I knew that little by little, I wasn't where God wanted me. To put it plainly, I was swimming in wrong waters, not noticing that I was swimming where rips were, in my life, and I was getting caught, out.
Rips are the currants that pull you out when you're swimming they are so strong, that sadly that happens and people drown, however I wasn't in a real rip, I was in a spiritual rip.
Friends that know me, probably didn't see it, but my family did.
I was short tempered, annoyed, I was heat exhausted, I was plain grumpy, and very un thankful, for the little things. I was always looking for the next new thing.
And that was a sign that I needed to go back to God, and go back to the things he wanted me to do.
We live in a very impatient world, and it is only getting worse by the things that we feed ourselves, like, getting that new phone, or getting into relationships, only for it to end badly, or to be desperate and only to wound others, my friend it is not worth the pain. But of course we don't know that until it happens.
Why is that we go through pain?
If there is a God, why then do people have sickness that they can't get healing for or operated on?
Listen, It is no ones fault that they have what they have got, when you actually sit down and listen, to someone story, you're actually listening because you are their friend, and they trust you, and they like you, you don't have to prove yourself to anyone else.
You don't know how close you'll get when you see a person that needs company or just a good friend. those are the ones that will point you in the right direction when you need advice, because they have come to the cross roads themselves
And it's in that encouragement you can find direction for your life.
God never leaves you out of pocket or leaves you behind.
God always, is there for you, and in those moments, you're never alone.
My friend has just been cancer free for a year, and 3 times her tumours came back, and 3 times she knew God's promise to her, when she went away to see her friends, all of them asked her if she was '' making a special good bye trip'' and she told them, that  no, this was just a trip to see them. when everything looked bad for her, everything was telling her that they are back, she was a afraid, but she knew that because she was  nurse, that God will be with her in everything, she wasn't praying for a good out come, she was just praying for strength and thanking him for the day, just that one day, and that one day turned into weeks, and months and years.
She had other people praying for her, and out of that  came healing, healing of families, healing of different things then healing of her cancer.
You might think, how can something as much as being thankful for one day, turn into so many blessings and good things.
Because that's all that you rely on, that is all that you have and have got.
Answer is simple, just God.
Sure you have desires and they are good ones, but if you go around looking out for things, and burning out looking for them, you just, eventually crumble.
And that's not what I want for you.
God is good, God is the one that makes broken people, broken lives back together, what might seem like a mess to you, doesn't to God.
What might look like what's out of your control isn't out of control for God.
Yes it hurts and yes it might sting, and you probably don't sleep well at night with what's going on,  and other things, you might have friends wanting to fix what's going on, but you can see God working, and lets you know that it's OK.
Lots of love
Chloe