Doin’ The Dailies While Waiting For Deliverance

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Is there anything harder than waiting for deliverance? My answer is “No!” I struggle so to do my “dailies” in captivity. To get up each day and face another day of restriction and handicap, and yet do what must be done anyway, and do it with a good attitude!

This tests my allegiance to Jesus like nothing else I know.

When all my heart longs for freedom, and choices, and ability to face my narrow sphere (yet one more day) and do it with grace and gentleness, and the compassion of Christ?

I don’t know about you, but there are days that my flesh screams in me; days I want to rebel. These are the days I see what a failure I am—what a rebel!

Habakkuk says, “I will stand my watch…”

Yes. My watch. The one God has given me. Narrow certainly. Unpleasant probably. But the freedom of how I shall do my watch? That is mine. God gives it to me each day and I choose to lay down my life, or take it back.

Simple when you think about it.

I can yeild to this plan I don’t like, and can’t understand, or I can rebel, and churn, and resist.

So there is freedom in captivity. Freedom to yield. Freedom to choose. No captivity can take those choices from me! I can stand my watch. I can accept God’s grace. I can do my dailies knowing the choices are mine and mine alone.

Yes, LORD, I will stand my watch.

The DREAM~MAKER’S Promise:

I will stand my watch and set myself on the rampart, and watch to see what He will say to me, and what I will answer when I am corrected.  Habakkuk 2:1 NKJV

A Caterpillar’s Prayer:

Father please, help me today to accept where I am; to say “Yes!” to where Your sovereign hand has placed me. Help me to do everything I must do this day with peace in my heart, courage in my steps, and above all, Your love touching each act of obedience to Your will. LORD, you see how I struggle to hope and believe… help me today to face (one more time) what must be done. I confess my failures to You. Correct me for my good, and I will trust that You will step into my weakness with Your almighty strength and power. I watch for You alone.

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I am a passionate follower of Jesus Christ with an equally passionate belief that every woman who chooses to follow Jesus has been destined for greatness in His Kingdom. He chose YOU to change the world and you have everything you need IN HIM to do it!