Hello friend! Hopefully you’ve read about the ‘birth’ of this blog on my “About This Blog” page (found in the top main menu). It’s foundational to understanding this and future posts and will not be re-explained here. Instead, for context, my goal is to briefly introduce myself and my planned style of blogging, prior to sharing my first ‘middle of the night’ message.
I am a married middle-aged woman with a goal of walking humbly with the Lord and growing more like Jesus while doing so. God has grown me in several ways since my true conversion in 1999, at the age of 28, but I have not arrived. My Christian growth is ongoing and will be until the day I part this earth. In this blog, I’d like to share my journey, the ups, the downs, the successes, the failures, the struggles and the joys and why, through it all, I still believe Jesus is worth it! Despite my genuine love for God, you’ll read about some of my biggest failures in following Him and why, as time goes on, I fall more and more in love with the God who is steadfast in compassion and forgiveness. Truth is, it’s these failures that grew me the most and it’s these failures that I hope will be an encouragement to you that, although we struggle in an imperfect world, there’s a God who sees, understands and upholds us despite our failures. If you are on the same Christian path as I, I want you to see that you are not alone in your shortcomings and there is grace for us in our humility. If you are not on the same Christian path, I want to give you a picture of what it looks like and invite you to join me on this road to life and sanctification. Finally, if you do not see your shortcomings, my goal is to open your eyes to the reality of them, not for shame or guilt, but for freedom. It is only through the humility of seeing that we can experience true growth.
“Change is not found in defending our righteousness, but in admitting our weakness and crying for help.” (Paul David Tripp, New Morning Mercies, May 18)
I do not seek glory in this blog, at least not for myself. That belongs to our Lord God in heaven. Period.
Ok, are you ready? Hop aboard!
But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” (James 4:6, ESV)
Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory, for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness! (Psalm 115:1, ESV)