Category Archives: Moment of Truth

Forgiveness Breeds Bitterness

Posted by Delightfully Doable on 3 March, 2014 None comments

F-O-R-G-I-V-E-N-E-S-S

The weight of this word is immensely draining, powerful and liberating. Each of us are in one of these categories. Forgiving to some people may force you to believe that what that person has done to you has now been excused and justified because you took the step to forgive. It seems almost impossible to forgive when they have destroyed you to the core. Unforgiving hearts hold rage and bitterness that grabs ahold of your heartstrings convincing you that they deserve to be treated poorly now that they have wronged you. Ask yourself this: what power does this hold over your life by not forgiving them? Maybe pride, arrogance, control, or selfishness? Really you’ve gained nothing but a bitter heart.

For others, maybe forgiving comes really easy to you. You understand we all make mistakes, we let others down from time to time and we all need forgiveness to help move ahead in life

And for the remainder of you, you may be somewhere in between. Feeling you are a forgiving person only to realize days, months and years later you never really dealt with it and truly forgave them. Now you find it comes up in ways you never expected, leaving you angry that years have passed by and you really haven’t moved ahead.

I’ve seen bitterness take root in a few people and the depths of the anger has been extremely astonishing to me how deep the bitterness resides within them. It’s scary to me how much blame is poured on those around them unwilling to accept responsibility for ones own actions truly believing that they are entirely innocent. Unforgiving hearts lead to immense anger and blame and at that point it gets scary!

Forgiveness is very challenging and can vary depending on the depth in which you’ve been wronged. You know, Christ was the ultimate sacrifice; forgiving the very men who spat on Him, beat Him, tantalized Him, and even crucified Him. After reminding yourself of this, how than can you justify not forgiving your enemy? Forgiving does NOT mean they haven’t sinned against you or that they are right in their actions and are free to continue to treat you poorly. Forgiveness must come from Christ allowing him to heal your heart of the pain that comes with it and without expecting something in return. You are NOT responsible for them or for their actions, you must forgive to continue to grow your own heart and walk with Christ free of guilt and shame, free of bitterness and anger.

Thanks to thiskalidescopeheartofmine.com

Thanks to thiskaleidescopeheartofmine.com

Moment of Truth: Who have you not forgiven that you know needs your forgiveness? If you are struggling with the pain from this person, seek the Lord and ask for help to forgive them without holding expectations that they will become someone different; someone who treats you properly. Ask for guidance to become the person God has created you to be without holding a grudge on your loving enemies.

Thought of the day

Posted by Delightfully Doable on 2 March, 2014 None comments

I heard it once said: If you are running away from something in your life you will be running even more when you get to your eternity.

Which running are you doing; running with good or running with evil? What running do you want to be doing when you hit eternity? Run to the Lord and you won’t have to worry about your eternity. Don’t allow all the opportunities to pass you by for your own pleasure. Flee from evil. If you’re living in the midst of the muck and the mire it is NOT too late to run for the right things; things that make you happy, peaceful, and ultimately leads you to perfection with Christ one day. Your second chances are running out, Lord willing I pray I see you all in eternity in our pure, perfect heaven with Christ.

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Moment of Truth

Posted by Delightfully Doable on 9 February, 2014 None comments

Don’t let your focus distract you from the real purpose!

White as Snow

Posted by Delightfully Doable on 8 February, 2014 None comments

Oh the cozy feeling of my electric blanket wrapped tightly around me as I look out the window seeing the gorgeous skies filled with a soft blanket of snow. Beautiful trees, snow capped houses filling my view is beyond describable. Last night I felt this peace wrap around me as we shut the lights off outside allowing the soft white blanket of snow to radiate enough light keeping the dark far away. We kept starring outside shocked by the amount of light this blanket had provided.

The more the snow falls the more I realize it’s pure, perfect and without blemish. Isn’t this the exact picture of Christ as he is pure, perfect and without blemish? He has washed our sins white as snow. Do you realize how quickly the snowy roads become trampled and dirty, slushy, and watered down? Is that how your faith in Christ is? Are you believing you are washed white as snow? Or, are you live in the streets slowly losing the temperature of faith and grace, washing you to the gutters and falling through the cracks? Rocks pierce your soul rubbing dirt into our insecurity taking away your white innocence. This is the routine of life that I hope to not fully succumb to.

We all have some amount of dirt in our snow as that is part of our imperfect world but when Christ looks down upon us, we are that soft, untouched blanket of snow. Lets choose to become the path that’s narrow, untouched, and hidden from the main roadways. Lets not throw ourselves to the street allowing the dirt to come near us. It’s impossible to avoid unless you choose the narrow path; the road less traveled. That road is never near the main roadways, it’s usually tucked far away under a tree or off in the distance. Never to be comingled with the wide common path. There is no mistaking which path is the untouched, narrow road.

The amount of light the snow brings is also a perfect picture of Christ. White snow reflects the moon eliciting a sweet glow forcing the darkness to flee; in darkness the enemy stalks. Last night I had an incredible peace as Christ wrapped me in His white blanket clearly showing me a physical form that He has His protection wrapped tightly around me and my family. In Psalms 91 it’s states that “darkness will not come near your tent…” this was a very clear picture to me last night and all day today that Christ brings about light even when our lives seem to be filled with darkness from the trials of this world. I feel blessed with the precious snow bringing about perspective while forcing me to place my busy life on hold and spend time with my family.

Moment of Truth: Christ is the light and in the midst of darkness He shines His light refocusing your perspective back on Him; the pure, untouched light. Stay off the dark black slushy roadways and take the path less traveled bringing about light and life; keeping you white as snow!

Why Can’t We See God

Posted by Delightfully Doable on 3 February, 2014 None comments

I had a conversation with my mom this afternoon and she kept asking me in the midst of trial where God is? We believe God is with us, we believe God is guiding and protecting us, but where is God shining down revealing himself to us giving us that hope?

Thank you to thebooktart.com for the picture

As I was listening to her it became very clear to me that God has been continually revealing himself to us through our circumstances. It can often be in the little things that God is showing a mighty work. The reality is that our trials wouldn’t seem so catastrophic if we didn’t believe in Christ. Evil wouldn’t be so prevalent if we weren’t fighting for good to overcome and win. Christ meets us in the pit of sin and is reaching down with an outstretched hand asking for us to grab on. We often look for God’s revealing in miracles and drastic change in lifestyle rather than the physical outreach trying to simply help us stand back up on our own two feet. When we live in sin we are still responsible and accountable to our choices, God wont simply take them away because we must deal with them and learn from them but in all reality those mighty changes in life is God’s revealing of himself even through our freewill to choose life or death.

So beloved, you are chosen, adopted, accepted and loved! God is revealing himself to you in the midst of the trial. Look for him in practical ways rather then in miracle form. I’m not suggesting that Christ wont perform miracles over your life as he does often but when life sinks deep, remember Christ is there revealing His precious self to you through ways that wouldn’t keep you believing still.

The simple question, “Where is God, why can’t I see him?” Seems to me to be the essence of Christ trying to get you to take your eyes off yourself and the longing for tragedy to dissipate, but to stay Christ focused so that you can see his hand in the daily routine of what we call life. We need to go deeper still in our faith, trials bring perseverance and Christ says we need to consider them pure joy. The definition of pure is: not mixed or adulterated with any other substance or material, free from contamination, containing nothing else. The definition of joy is: Great pleasure and happiness. The two combined seem to be a happiness filled without anything else, free of any other material or substance distracting the essence of our joy. Consider it pure joy my friends, when you are faced with trials of many kind (James 1:2-4).

Reveal means to make known; previously unknown or kept secret. Christ isn’t a secret to us, he is constantly showing himself through divine or supernatural means. When we ask Christ to reveal himself, I think we ought to ask for us to see the supernatural realm taking place at that present moment. If we feel Christ is hiding Himself from us our perspective needs to get back in tact. Whose hiding, Christ or us? Christ has revealed himself. Let’s not hide in the midst of pain and tragedy and question God’s presense. Instead lets open our eyes and grab on to Christ as He walks with us through our day. Our prayer should be: “let me see You as You are continually revealing Yourself to me. Let my doubt, fear and trepidation not hinder my sight from your glory as You embark this journey hand in hand with me. You have and will continue to reveal Yourself to me, help me from hiding from you glory and keep my eyes pure, uncontaminated by anything other than Yourself so that I may proceed with faith and not let evil conquer me.”

My friends, the reality is we all go through dark times in our life where we can’t find which way is up. Unfortunately we need close brothers and sister in Christ to stand by our side pointing us in the direction of the finish line. I’ve wondered myself many times why God hasn’t preformed that miracle on our family, when I need to remember we all have our own choices and no matter which road we choose God will be faithful to us as we continually choose Him. This doesn’t mean our ‘miracle’ is that the tragedy or hardships get taken away, it simply means resting under His wing for refuge while we continue to endure the path that’s narrow and difficult rather than the worn, wide path.

We think that Christ revealing himself to us is some unknown experience that rarely happens. My friends, Christ is daily revealing himself to you, are you receiving this great gift you have been given? You may question God as at times He can be silent, but when you seek him for guidance He will not fail you and is waiting to unveil the many layers covering your eyes. We tend to let our insecurities, doubts and fears become the essence of how we think God is working. This is all wrong my friends and I’m guilty of this as well. We need to remind ourselves what God’s promises are so that when standing in the midst of the fire you are pure before the Lord, knowing you can and will endure the fire and come out even more refined on the other side.

Moment of Truth: Reveal yourself to Christ, don’t keep yourself a secret from Him as he is reaching down into the pit with His hand outstretched longing to wash away your pride and selfishness and renew your eyes with peace and glory. There is a hope!

You are beautiful

Posted by Delightfully Doable on 28 January, 2014 None comments

My husband has been home for a couple days as he is in transition from his old position to a new position with a new company. We are very excited about this. Since he has been home for a few days it allowed me yesterday to attend bible study without little Cooper man and go grocery shopping. While I was on my way home the song by Mercy Me “Beautiful” came on. I’ve heard this song a pletheroa of times but never really been hit by the deep need of the human race to be loved and accepted, simply to be told you are beautiful.

To all the men and women out there, you are beautiful. “…when all you hear is you’re not worth anything. Wondering if you could just be loved. If they truly saw your heart than they would see too much.” You are beautiful! God created you just the way you are. You are more than what’s driving you and hurting you. All the lies about yourself that you believe are nothing compared to what Christ has done for us on the cross. When you were first thought of before the foundation of this world God knew your name and the hairs atop your head. This is powerful. He knew the depths of your soul and created you just the way you are. You are beautiful in His eyes.

We get so bogged down my the media and what beauty is in the eye of man rather than the eye of the beholder. Beauty is not something man created. Christ created us all individually so that we could be beautiful and confident with our love from Him. It doesn’t matter what the world says, our beauty goes beyond the depths of our appearance to the inner part of our core. We become insecure because we see billboards and magazines that portray a life unworthy of anything that matters. Beauty isn’t the heart of a person, the heart of the person is where beauty lies.

God created us all for something so much more. Have you reached the depths of who you are in Christ? Don’t walk around ashamed hanging your head low; stand tall, be bold portraying a heart of confidence and search your soul oh precious one and ask the Lord to shine His beauty upon you. You are beautiful, repeat that to yourself all day long; you are beautiful. Christ made you, how could you be anything less than beautiful when everything about Christ is beauty. He is the essence of beauty and you are the essence of Christ. Hold on to that sword of truth and walk boldly through your day knowing you are beautiful no matter what the world says. Words can bring you down, but they don’t have to, harsh words come from those who are insecure with themselves.

Black, brown, red, blonde or grey hair, this is how Christ designed you and exactly how HE wanted you my friend to look. He created you with such thought and made your eyes to shine for Him, not the worldly pleasures we call beauty.

Men and women do not know how to love one another with the glory Christ holds. We long to be loved by our spouses, family, friends and children. Though that love exists it will fail, “…for now we only see a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully know.” (1 cor. 13:12) We can’t receive that full acceptance of love while here on earth and as much as we strive to feel that love from our spouse and only by the grace of God can we feel a portion of His love from them. We will only see a glimpse of the true love Christ holds but the glorious piece to this puzzle is, we can’t feel fully loved until we let Christ love us. We can search our whole lives to fill this void when Christ is longing for us to place our love in Him to be fulfilled.

You are beautiful no matter what arises in life and the strife you feel in your heart, no matter the words you hear from those attempting to beat your soul leaving you to feel inadequate and worthless. We will all have days when our strength is simply weak and vulnerable; you are beautiful. You are made for so much more than all of this; treasured, sacred and His. Beloved you are beautiful, receive this joyous gift! Pray that God will give you the eyes of Christ to see yourself through His eyes; beautiful.

Moment of Truth: Come to me all who are weary and laden and I will give you rest~ Jesus

Thought of the Day

Posted by Delightfully Doable on 7 January, 2014 None comments

Anxiety in and of itself isn’t wrong, it’s what we do with anxiety that can be handled incredibly wrong. How are you handling your anxiety?

Thought of the Day

Posted by Delightfully Doable on 4 January, 2014 None comments

Until we realize the deep need for Christ we cannot understand why our focus needs to remain on Christ. Our society is quick to distract our focus yet He is the one who created us.

When we let our focus be self focused rather than Christ focused our pride will be crumbled by what Christ is trying to do: take the focus off of ourselves to allow for hope and healing. Our ‘self’ will always fail us no matter how driven you are to disprove this statement.

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Thought of the Day

Posted by Delightfully Doable on 1 January, 2014 None comments

When worldly values and worldly fear drives us, we tend to make bad decisions. Our choices define the depths of who we are; are we driven by material matters or spiritual matters? Are our choices driven by fear or faith?

The tongue speaks the hearts desires, but the heart lives out the truth… most the times these two are not aligned properly.