Reflections

Other than the deer that darted out in front of my truck,
following beside me for about 50 feet before entering the woods, and the
chasing of the possum through the dimly light parking light, nothing too
exciting has gone on at the school.
  For
the most part it is very quiet while I am watching the grounds making sure no
one comes to steal anything.
  Working at
night, not having much to do sometimes, has given me a lot of time to think and
reflect.
  One item I have reflected upon
the past couple of days is God’s faithfulness.
 
In Hebrews we are told that God will never leave us nor forsake us.
  I have read that passage many times but I do
not believe it has really become a clinging verse in my life until I experienced
times when it seems as if God is quiet or I have allowed the enemy to whisper
false ideas into my mind.
  When the enemy
speaks lies or life just becomes difficult I am reminded of another verse with
much context to knowing God will not leave us:
 
“We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against
the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to
Christ.”
  Here lately I have reiterated
in my mind that my Father and yours will never leave me nor forsake, and that
not only means that He will not abandon me, but it also means He will not stop
working in my life until it is complete.
 
In Jeremiah God tells his people that He will never stop doing good to
them (32:40).
  As I watched the sunrise
the other morning, waiting for the time when I could return home to my peaceful
bed and get some sleep, I was reminded that God is constantly in our midst and
there is no place we can go to escape it.
 
“It is one thing to discover the treasure and quite another to claim it
as one’s own through ruthless determination and tenacious effort” (Brennan
Manning).
  This passage has made me
increasingly aware and has awakened myself to the fact that my life with Christ
takes effort and discipline; stretching my mind and opening my heart to think
and reflect, in times of silence, upon the one He has loved me first.