Would it matter to you whether you were on the mountain top, or in the valley on your knees? I wonder sometimes whether God would rather be praised when things are good or if things are bad. I think maybe when God has us in a valley, He shows us that we need to praise Him above everything. I forget that sometimes when i’m on the mountain close to Him. I encourage you today that you would praise God wherever you are. If you’re in the valley on your knees, you can only grow closer to God.
i heard this song…
es kann nicht immer nur die Sonne scheinen,
es muss auch ab und zu der Himmel weinen…
It was a german song by a german folk singer Heintje. It was all about how we can’t enjoy the sunshine if we never experience rain. This gave me some answers to why i often wonder why i don’t ‘feel’ saved, and why sometimes i feel as though i could burst with love for my Saviour.
I came to the conclusion that the reason i have mountain top experiences is because i spend time in the valleys. If i never had hard times, then i couldn’t truly feel so complete at other times. I used to wonder why, but now i know. Praise God!

I will not waste time on anything that i can’t change anyway.
God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
Worrying about things that i can’t change anyway, is one thing i need to change. There always will be things i can’t change. There always will be people i can’t change. Not that they can’t change, but that they don’t want to. Can i let them steal my inner peace?
Only God can change things. And God can also help me to accept things that won’t be changed. This seems like a hard task. I need to pray for grace to understand. I need to remember that i can always find something good about everyone.
More times than not, I am the one who needs to change. It may be how i look at the situation or the situation is there to change me. I need to accept what the Lord wants me too. If i give everything to the Lord, i can watch as He takes care of everything.

Complaining while serving God?
Serve wholeheartedly, as if you were serving the Lord, not men, because you know that the Lord will reward everyone for whatever good he does. – Ephesians 6:7-8
This something that i need to be reminded of daily. Whether it is cleaning up the dishes, or doing school work, it is so easy to complain. But why complain, when what i do is all for God? How can i complain to the God who sent his only Son to die so that i could live eternally with Him?
If we realized that absolutely everything we do is for the Lord, would we do it differently? Would our attitude change? Even while singing congregational hymns and when working with people we don’t like?
God will reward us. God can’t reward us for more than we do. Not only can we do good, but we can do it with all of our hearts only for God.

That Sister of Mine.
“Inspiredbrioooooo??”
“…yeah?”
“I loooooove you!”
“Well, I love you more!!”
“NO. I LOVE YOU THE MOST!!!”
My sister may be exaggerating when she vows her love to me, but one thing i know for sure. I know that God loves me. God has always loved me and always will. No matter how far away i might be separated with Him, He will always give me an opportunity to begin pleasing Him. We never know how long we have until we will be separated from God’s love through death. My prayer is that i may never be separated from the love of God.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written:
“ For Your sake we are killed all day long;
We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”
Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. – (Romans 8:35-39)
