Pondering Promises: A Return to Blogging

Hello blog friends! It has been a while...not quite the 3 years that this blog suggests (I blogged in 2012 at another address), but still longer than it should have been. It's been a season where it's been hard to muster up the inspiration to write. I've felt convicted, as if I'm not using all that I've been given, but also uninspired. As I presented that excuse to The Lord today, He answered by mightier inspiration than I've felt in a while. I'm choosing to update this blog instead of my other as I feel that my best work has been posted here. I hope that continues through His Holy inspiration that I've seen today. 

A.W. Tozer once said "What we think about when we think about God is the most important thing about us." Our perceptions about God vary based on a many different factors...what we have read in His word. been taught at church and by our families, how we were raised, how we feel God has responded (or not) in our circumstances, both past and present.   Each of these creates a layer in our faith, determining how we view not only God but all things in our walk with him. Like an onion, each layer flavors our faith, either with sweetness or bitterness, and determines what we think about God, also determining everything else about us. 

While many of these things are good, Satan uses others to keep us from growing in depth and intimacy with The Lord. Curves life throws at us, our timing being different from God's, God not answering our prayers in the way we think can all impact what we think about God, as well as our walks with Him.

How could focusing on His promises help that? If I truly meditated on His revelation of Himself to us through scripture, how would that impact my walk with Him? How would I grow with him? How could He transform my view of situations? How would it impact what I thought of Him, and therefore everything else in my life? 

So here is my Summer Experiment… taking one promise each week, meditating on it, chewing on it, thinking and praying through it, focusing on it and the quality God reveals through it each week and seeing what He teaches me about Himself and how he transforms us to be more like His Son. As my view of Him is more correct, what else would that impact? So….here goes pondering promises!