The other day a woman I know said, “I have an ‘addictive personality’. First it was smoking, which I gave up. Now, as you can see, I am addicted to food.” She then said how she was going to conquer this addiction, and I know that she’ll do it, she’s already ”kicked the smoking habit” and she’s that kind of very determined and persistant person, but . . .
Below are two ransomed heart emails that I have recently received (a little while ago now, holding off on publishing this post until I’d finished a couple of other drafts, oh well) full and complete, usually I only post the bits that are relevant, however, in this case both are completely relevant; to only chop out a few bits to quote just won’t give the whole picture leaving anybody who reads this with an incomplete understanding of what the emails are saying and what I am saying. Both these emails were very encouraging, they spoke to my heart, fanning the desires of my heart and the last two lines in the second email gave me my “wake up!” slap!!
Disappointment with God - now there’s a good book authored by Philip Yancey who has written many good, inspirational and teaching books. Most definately one of my favourite Christian authors. Anyway ‘disappointment with God’ is what Tim and I have been dealing with over the last few days. We recently had a situation in our lives where we trusted God; we chose to have faith that God would provide - we were believing for it. And he did come through for us, but . . .