Word of Encouragement for Every New Day ~ 1 Oct 2007

Word of Encouragement for Every New Day ~ 1 Oct 2007

The start of a brand new week and the word of encouragement today: Being bold and courageous, yet before our Lord we stand weak and fragile. Many people define boldness and courage as being physically strong, having a resilient and tough character, we also often define these words through famous people who exemplify these characteristics. Today, I pray and hope that we will allow God to define these words in our lives rather than let the world define what it means to be bold and courageous, yet before our Lord we stand weak and fragile. Today, let us be encouraged by God to know that He doesn’t care about worldly boldness and courage when it is achieved by our own hands and desires, but what He cares about most is the spirit man/woman inside us, is it bold and courageous before God, willing to be humble, weak, and fragile? Are we willing to give up, and surrender everything everyday for God? Believe it or not, when we stand weak and fragile before God, we are actually being bold and courageous. We are boldly giving our lives to God. To be fragile, is a powerful word because we are saying to God that I want to be easily broken by You Lord. When we are easily broken by God, it is exciting because we are seeing things from a different perspective, we start seeing what God sees. We start hearing things that we never paid attention to before, because God is speaking to us. We start saying things we never used to say, because God is using us to be His mouth peace to the world. This does not mean we are robots being controlled by God, because no matter what we are sinners and we are all imperfect. God has given us freedom to chose and make our own decisions. Isn’t it sad though, that in our world today people are being fragile and weak before “men”, weak and fragile towards their needs and desires, things that are aimless and useless. It seems as though God comes secondary, and only important in times of desperation. Today, I pray that we all would desire more and more to be weak and fragile before our Lord and watch and see that spirit in us standing boldly and courageous, desiring the things that God desires. © Oct 2007 Shaun Lee