HIM IN MY LIFE

Diana, at Sunshine On My Shoulders, is starting this new feature today called More Of Him Monday. I am participating in it. Go here and check it out. There are actually two parts and two choices to post about. Choose one, write your post about it and then go and sign Mr. Linky so we can all read your story.

I have chosen Him In My Life for mine because I KNOW God is very much at work in our lives.

Some times we wonder what to post and other times there is so much going on in our lives we have to make a choice. There is so MUCH going on in our lives and I will be posting more about that, including pictures, in the next few days. Today I have to share yet another writing from My Utmost For His Highest because it is exactly where I find myself.

The Commission Of The Called

"Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for His body's sake." Colossians 1:24

"We make calls out of our own spiritual consecration, but when we get right with God He brushes all these aside, and rivets us with a pain that is terrific to one thing we never dreamed of, and for one radiant flashing moment we see what He is after, and we say - "Here am I, send me."

This call has nothing to do with personal sanctification, but with being made broken bread and poured-out wine. God can never make us wine if we object to the fingers He uses to crush us with. If God would only use His own fingers, and make me broken bread and poured-out wine in a special way! But when He uses someone whom we dislike, or some set of circumstances to which we said we would never submit, and makes those the crushers, we object. We must never choose the scene of our own martyrdom. If ever we are going to be made into wine, we will have to be crushed; you cannot drink grapes. Grapes become wine only when they have been squeezed.

I wonder what kind of finger and thumb God has been using to squeeze you, and you have been like a marble and escaped? You are not ripe yet, and if God had squeezed you, the wine would have been remarkedly bitter. To be a sacramental personality means that the elements of the natural life are presenced by God as they are broken providentially in His service. We have to be adjusted into God before we can be broken bread in His hands. Keep right with God and let Him do what He likes, and you will find that He is producing the kind of bread and wine that will benefit His other children."

Our oldest son, David, returned to Tulsa Sunday. He arrived, after a very long, 3+ day drive, from California at 2 a.m. His less than 3 year marriage has very serious issues. David is bi-polar and there are very serious issues related to that.

Mickey and I KNOW, without a shadow of a doubt, that God is at work in the lives of this family and especially our children. God is turning our grapes into wine.....the above writing I quoted was for the date September 30th. It never ceases to amaze me how God always puts the exact words and messages in front of us as they apply and we need them.

We covet your prayers for David, his wife, Nicole, and Nicole's three wonderful sons.

We covet your prayers for Mickey and I as we allow God to do whatever squeezing of us to make the wine he desires we become.

We are still reeling from our beloved granddaughter, Oksana, leaving her father and moving away. We covet your prayers for Marc, Oksana & Aric during this time in their lives.

I am confident that it is Him In My Life!!!