I have been pondering the events of the last 7 months as I have been working from home and monitoring them world-wide. I have continued to seek God's purpose in all this. One of the biggest things has been a renewed sense of keeping my heart and my mind clean before the Lord and being ready for His calling upward, The calling of His Body - the Bride of Christ. A renewed fear of the Lord has overcome my waking hours and has become my first priority.
In my quiet time this morning I heard the Holy Spirit recall the blog I started a long time ago - "Preparing the Bride". I was stunned...I had forgotten all about it! I do lots of online work and it somehow got lost in the focus of pressing and distracting things. I wondered if it was even still alive and online anymore.
I dug into my blog files and found it! I had written 3 posts in 2010-11. As I sat and re-read them, I was blown away. I could have written them this summer - so much is still fitting and aligns with what God is doing. The posts even bring out threads of things that I have learned since then and didn't really understand 10 years ago .Ten years have gone by and God is still on track even if I forgot and let it go.
The events I shared about in my first-ever post January 2010, have only intensified, and with a world-wide pandemic, protests, riots, fires in major cities, events moving us into a darker period of U.S. history - "What's going on?" still seems an appropriate question, so I added, "Again".
I think a lot of it is timing. For some reason maybe now is the time to pick it back up and renew my efforts to share what's on God's heart as I hear Him. I have gone through some difficult times and persevered. God has been purging me of sin, breaking bonds and teaching me to let go and let Him lead me. My faith has been strengthened. The Holy Spirit has been bringing more teaching, speakers, websites, books, etc. across my path over the past 9 years that have inspired and broadened my understanding of what God's plan is and where things are headed. These things aren't revelations of man - they are sound Bible-based teachings.
I am going to begin to share some of these resources with you that have brought me closer to Jesus. I hope they will do the same for you.
Abide in Him,
Lon
