Today I Choose Faithfulness...

Today I choose faithfulness. To live my life with complete faith in God's plan, to be faithful in all that I say and do and to share of God's faithfulness in my life.
"For great is your love, reaching to the heavens; your faithfulness reaches to the skies." Psalm 57:10
God's faithfulness is so amazing! When I really sit down and think about my life, I can see God's faithfulness over and over again. The thing that I realize about myself is that more often than not, I choose to run to fear and the "what if's" of life instead of running to my faithful God. I guess this is the human nature battle, to worry instead of have faith. The thing that amazes me, is that God is still faithful even when I am not.
I love the prayer of David in Psalm 86:10-11, 15. "For you are great and do marvelous deeds; you alone are God. Teach me your way, O Lord, and I will walk in your truth; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name. But you, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness."
I want an undivided heart, a heart that runs after God's faithfulness, not after the fears of this world.
I decided that I wanted to write down a few of the ways that I have seen God's faithfulness in my life. And when I really think about it, I am amazed at the things God has done and I'm only 27. I can't imagine how he will continue to show his faithfulness throughout the rest of my life!
God has been faithful in....
- The birth of Parker, he came two months early and I watched God do amazing things as we trusted him with Parker's life.
- God provided us with an opportunity to buy a house at a young age and he is now showing his faithfulness once again as we trust him to move us on to another house.
- I have watched God provide for our every need while Kyle was out of work. We have had the blessing of watching God provide through unemployment twice in our marriage and all though it was so hard, I wouldn't have changed a thing.
- I have saw God faithfully answer prayer as I watched my brother, my mom and my mother-in-law all battle cancer. Praise God that they are all healthy today!
- God asked me to step out in faith and leave my job without another job on the horizon. And what did God do, he provided a new job that I love and that fits my stage of life so well.
My God is so good!
Psalm 89:1 challenged me today. "I will sing of the Lord's great love forever; with my mouth I will make your faithfulness know through all generations." Am I doing this? God's faithfulness should make me want to shout it from the mountain top. Too often I don't share, I just keep it to myself. Imagine if our conversations started with "God did this amazing thing today", instead of "You'll never guess what this person did to me when I was driving....". I want my life to speak of the faithfulness of God. Psalm 117 is my encouragement and challenge for today. "Praise the Lord, all you nations, extol him, all you peoples. For great is his love toward us and the faithfulness of the Lord endures forever. Praise the Lord."
Praise the Lord, for He is faithful!!