Re-writing the draft...
Just an update - I have now re-written yet another draft for my Accreditation, and posted it off to my Supervisor. All being well, I should get a yea or nay by the end of the week, and if it's a YES, then it's back off to be re-assessed by BACP. I know that all of this means that I should value the accreditation more WHEN (please note this word of faith) I get it back, but at the moment, it just feels like a slog.
But I was listening to Joyce Meyer on GOD TV this morning, and she made an interesting comment. She said that God requires "experienced people" to be trusted to do certain tasks for Him. I know it sounds really obvious, but there is no way to gain experience other than by going through tough experiences. And it is these very people whom God uses;
"He comes alongside us when we go through hard times, and before you know it, he brings us alongside someone else who is going through hard times so that we can be there for that person just as God was there for us."
2 Cor. 1:4 from THE MESSAGE
I remember reading something written by Joni Earekson-Tada (she is a quadreplegic, injured many years ago in a diving accident). She once wrote that she was angry at God when she once fell out of her wheelchair, in full view of a group of people, and hit her face on the road. She was angry, not that she had fallen, but rather that she had fallen on the only part of her body which could feel pain. Whilst others rallied around and helped her, she silently screamed at God that she was angry at being the object lesson for other people "yet again"
Pat's Thought for the Day:
When we test drive a car, we often use the "demonstration model". Sometimes our attitude is that it is a "used car", but the truth is, it's the one the dealer can rely on to demonstrate how good this car is. When God uses experiences in our lives to demonstrate His power, His love and His grace, it is actually because He trusts us to do exactly what He wants others to see, and to respond in a way that glorifies Him.
Can you be trusted to be the "demonstration of Jesus" today?
But I was listening to Joyce Meyer on GOD TV this morning, and she made an interesting comment. She said that God requires "experienced people" to be trusted to do certain tasks for Him. I know it sounds really obvious, but there is no way to gain experience other than by going through tough experiences. And it is these very people whom God uses;
"He comes alongside us when we go through hard times, and before you know it, he brings us alongside someone else who is going through hard times so that we can be there for that person just as God was there for us."
2 Cor. 1:4 from THE MESSAGE
I remember reading something written by Joni Earekson-Tada (she is a quadreplegic, injured many years ago in a diving accident). She once wrote that she was angry at God when she once fell out of her wheelchair, in full view of a group of people, and hit her face on the road. She was angry, not that she had fallen, but rather that she had fallen on the only part of her body which could feel pain. Whilst others rallied around and helped her, she silently screamed at God that she was angry at being the object lesson for other people "yet again"
Pat's Thought for the Day:
When we test drive a car, we often use the "demonstration model". Sometimes our attitude is that it is a "used car", but the truth is, it's the one the dealer can rely on to demonstrate how good this car is. When God uses experiences in our lives to demonstrate His power, His love and His grace, it is actually because He trusts us to do exactly what He wants others to see, and to respond in a way that glorifies Him.
Can you be trusted to be the "demonstration of Jesus" today?
posted by PatK at
5:33 pm
1 Comments:
Pat,
I have just reread this and think the demonstrator model is great. This is hugely encouraging right now.
Your blogs are very inspiring and thought provoking. Thanks for keeping blogging despite the busyness of life.
Love, hugs and prayers.
:-)
Sarah
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