How Are YOU Doing?

Will you stop right now and think with me about our world’s condition? We are worse than Sodom and Gomorrah and I cannot see it getting better folks, but will you also stop and think with me, right now, of the glorious return of our Savior and this awesome God we serve? As I began my study in Malachi I was tempted to lay my pen and Bible down and just cry, weeping for my Savior and the people scattered all over this world who have rejected our Lord!  I cannot give in or give up and neither can you, my friend.

Mal 2:17 Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?

Mal 3:1 ¶ Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts

When was the last time you just took time to praise Him for……everything…..EVERYTHING? He 

deserves our praise not our pity. He deserves our voices lifted up to heaven, hands in the air, shouting, “Glory to God in the Highest, thank you Jesus for dying for our sins!” He doesn’t deserve our complaining spirits as we question every move made on this earth. I am ashamed at my faithless self. Let’s quit putting God on trial. How are YOU doing?

I am writing this blog today on a Friday. I do not know when Sheri will post it. I leave all that to her, but I want to encourage you that for today, sing openly, praising Him as you walk through the morning, this afternoon and into the night. When you prepare lunch today, stop and thank Him that you “still can” do what you can do and then turn around with a smile for someone and not a smirk, not a sarcastic remark that could break someone to pieces. Oh to our Savior, how bad my mouth can be. How are YOU doing?

May I encourage you, also, to listen to someone today, really listen without making comments and give that person a moment to put it all out on the table. You may know a lot more than me or the person who needs to unload, but why not just listen without commenting.  Many times I have to pray, “Lord, shut my stinkin’ mouth.” Just listen with patience, today. I will do the same. How are YOU doing?

I found myself praying while reading Malachi, just talking to God as if I were living during that time. People have been so rotten for so long, I don’t know how God puts up with us but He does. I must pray for my fellow friends and for myself. Will you stop, again, and pray? Pray properly instead of preaching proudly! People need us to lift their names up to heaven. So, stop and pray or walk and pray, drive and pray……just PRAY! He hears and wants to answer. He loves you and He loves those for whom we are concerned. How are YOU doing?

D. L. Moody wrote, “Prayer does not mean that I am to bring God down to my thoughts and my purposes, and bend His government according to my foolish, silly and sometimes sinful notions. Prayer means that I am to be raised up into feeling, into union and design with Him; that I am to enter into His counsel and carry out His purpose fully.”

While we lift our hands in praise, listen to others and their needs, pray, we must also move and do! Today, do something for someone else. How difficult could that be? At this writing I have a friend who is concerned for her grandson who is in terrible sin and has fallen into the crowd who cuts themselves. How horrible to hurt so badly that we feel we must cut ourselves. I am praying for God’s guidance in this whole matter. She asked me to pray and I have.  Another friend has a husband who just had open heart surgery. Fear, folks, of losing a loved one can bring devastation like no other, especially when it is your own spouse. How are YOU doing?  How are your friends doing? People need us to be top side, and not topsy turvy.   

We are a marvelous creation as women, and have the power to help bring change, hope and help to so many people. Cook, mend, bag some groceries, call someone in the hospital, nursing home, or at home…..move and do! How are YOU doing?

If we help the least of these, we have done a service to and for our Lord…..remember that today and may it bring a smile that will be a blessing and not a curse to others!

Mt 25:40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

Until next time, Lord Willing
Sharon