Moving 12-6-2011

It's been a crazy month, month and a half or so! Our house went into foreclosure, as many others around the nation, so we've had to move. But through this whole process I've been generally calm, generally.

It's hard moving. What made it even harder for others is that we had no idea where we would be moving to. o we were literally moving out, but didn't have anywhere to move to. We packed up our things and put them into storage, leaving them there until we would find someplace to go. So here's a few things I realized or understood during this transition.

If God takes care of His animals out in the wild, won't He take care of us?
Matthew 6:25-26
²⁵Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
 ²⁶Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they
My trust in God as to what would happen to us grew with this scripture. I knew not where we would go, or where we would live, but I knew that God would be with us always. He would not send us somewhere we couldn't handle, or somewhere we would be in danger. He would send us where we needed to be, whether it be for our sakes, or the sake of others watching on. And it would be good, and very good in His sight.

The other is more of a realization that I had. I'm blessed. I'm so blessed that I had more than I needed. In the process of gathering all of your belongings, you need to bag it or box it. It is then that you see how much of something you have. I filled a 13 gallon white trash bag with all shoes that I owned (other than the pair I was wearing), yet I only have one pair of feet. Obviously every pair has a purpose, but how often do I wear each pair? Did I necessarily NEED each pair? I had white socks galore, with a good and necessary reason, yet still I owned a lot of white socks. I owned a bunch of shirts, khakis, pants, ties, shorts and whatever else that I had not worn in a while. That's how blessed I was. I didn't even realize it. SO in going through all this, I decided I didn't need everything. So I went through it all and condensed my, I believe four bags of clothes to one. Everything in the one bag. The pairs of shoes I owned I condensed to maybe four pair.

We live our lives knowing that we are blessed, yet unable to see how we are sometimes. I'll admit it is hard to see the little things, but I guess as Christians, we have to train ourselves to see those little things.

So we did in fact move into a new house. I won't lie to you, it doesn't look all that great on the outside. But it does look better on the inside. This house is a blessing. I'll tell you why in the next post God willing.

May our Father in heaven continue to bless us as He sees fit, according to our sins and our goodness. May our outward showing and proclaiming as Christians be reflective of His genuine residence within us, and not just idle words and actions we say and do to fit in. May He strengthen us our spiritual minds, ever guided to Him and His ways so that one day we may hear "Well done my good and faithful servant".  In Jesus name I pray, Amen.