Thanksgiving on Thursday

 

 

Over the years, I have been disappointed many times by the lack of

'speaking often one with another' of the things of God

in Christian circles.

 

I have longed for many years for vibrant, excited-about-eternal-things

people to fellowship with in places that I have lived.

As a young Christian, it often disturbed me how little of

valuable conversation could be heard after church services

or when visiting in each others homes.

I often wondered why we didn't share on that level

and my heart often cried out to the Lord for fellowship

in that realm.

 

But one thing I had to learn to do was to be

content with how the Lord answered that heartcry.

He didn't answer it by putting me in an environment

where many congregate and zealously serve the Lord

wholeheartedly together.

 

Instead, He provided fellowship from a distance for me

many times throughout the years.

 

 

 

People from other towns, other states, and other countries.

Emailing.

Faxes.

Cards in the mail.

Care packages in the mail.

Phone calls.

Assurances of prayer.

Traveling time to visit their congregations

and their homes.

 

I have been blessed beyond measure with friends

who love God and who seek Him and serve Him

wholeheartedly.

And in my own town, I am starting to find them, too.

They are here. And I am deeply appreciative of them

wherever they are found, whenever I find them.

 

I have been blessed again by visiting with friends in another

state this past weekend.

My family and I were warmly welcomed as overnight guests,

sitting at supper tables,

hearing testimonies of new birth and regeneration,

hearing concerned 'grandpa' figure who waited

up til late in the night to make time to visit with us and

hear our hearts,

meals kindly shared by new friends who

received us into their home and by their kindness

showed us their devotion to our Father.

 

I am so blessed.

 

 

And I want to especially bless my friends today

who are reading this blog who have shared

their hearts and lives with me and my family.

 

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

I recognize you.

I deeply appreciate you.

I am so blessed to have been shown

'the 7,000 who have not bowed their knee to Baal'.

 

God bless you, all of you.

May we together bless the household of faith

and encourage one another in the Lord.

 

~Marcia

 

PS

I think that God kept me in a 'famine' of much fellowship

because He needed to bring me to a place where

Jesus is my All in all.

There can be no one else who takes His place.

God needed to break me of my 'need' of

people to fill the place in my life and heart

that only He can fill.

 

So today, I thank Him that He is the only wise God

who knows what is good for me in every season.

All glory and honor belongs to Him.