Confidence

"I am still confident of this:
I will see the goodness of the Lord
in the land of the living. 
Wait for the Lord;
be strong and take heart 
and wait for the Lord."
Psalm 27:13, 14

I have no confidence in myself , but in my God, the Great Physician ( Great Everything) I rest assured in Him! This morning upon hearing a negative report from one of my doctors, this passage instantly came to me in the  Holy Spirit..." I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living."
Things don't always go my way...in fact they frequently don't, and why not? Because I am not God, and my Father knows what is best for me. He requires my love, my trust, He has given me a resilient new heart  that is pliable and patient....so I will wait on His timing. I am unfettered by pride arrogance, I take confidence in the Uncreated One who made me, knows me, loves me, and makes a way for me through every desert.

Letting Go 216

"I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. The man who loves his life will lose it, while the man who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. 
My Father will honor the one who serves me."

John 12:24-26 

On August 6, 2012, after a week of serious heart trouble, I had open heart surgery, replacing a mitral valve destroyed by a staph  infection. Although there were warning signs of an impending heart problem I refused to acknowledge it, instead maintained by a sense of pride in my former physical health and strength. 

It was an illusion maintained by arrogance in my former physical abilities,
I was unwilling to recognize a change of seasons, struggling against  the Most Holy God who desires to take me to a new place, a place of strength that comes through my own weakness, a place of abundant life that comes only by dying to self, and really embracing what  following Jesus means.
Do not to hold on to things that will keep us limited and earthbound, while God himself calls  us to" come up".

Recognize that even now new seasons  are coming and have come, and the death or loss of certain things may be necessary for a new harvest. Holding onto things that are already dead or worthless is like a hot air balloon weighed down by excessive cargo which must be jettisoned for the balloon to soar to its full potential.

Follow, love, serve Jesus, beloved, with all of a new heart.
He promises that we will be with Him, caught up in all He is, and honored by the Father.
To be with Jesus, unencumbered, is to enter into a place a new revelation, close encounters of the heavenly kind that will exceed anything you had previously believed possible.