Who You Are
Who is God? What does His character look like? These are the questions I've been going through a lot in my mind this last week. I was listening to a sermon by Jill Briscoe and she was sharing a lot about how we forget God's character and who He is when we view Him through the lens of the hard or terrible things we are going through. We see it as Him doing all those things or allowing them to be....instead of placing before our eyes the truth of who the Lord is in the midst of those things. What does the Bible say about Him and how He operates? What do we know to be true in our own lives? Our minds are apt to just freak out and forget all we know to be true. We have to "mind our minds" and really take a hold of what we are thinking about. We must rehearse the attributes of God so that we know - not just feel - who God is in each situation. "Mind your mind and God will mind your heart." This really hit me. My eyes have been on the difficult things and it...