I have come to revel in the fact that I am no great man, and honestly, I don't know that I would want to be. So many I have seen fall from greatness. I have taken to heart their fall and it seems the root of so much is pride. I suppose I could boast about this or that but my true currency is peace and love. After a life of trying to scratch out notoriety, money and position for myself I am happy to just have peace and love. To be happy and carefree means more to me than anything in the world and my source of desire is God. He loves and cares for me. He has given me so much that I have not earned or deserve. When life becomes confusing and stressful I hand it all to him. I pray to God for wisdom. I pray to Jesus for the knowledge to get through everything lovingly. I pray to the Holy Spirit to strengthen me to over come all. God is always there for me unless I block him out of my life. I thank God daily for all he has given, I share my sorrows, concerns and rejoice with him for the wonderful and funny things that happen. I try now and focus all on God and pivot with everything toward him. Is my life flawless with out pain or persecution? No, but with God in my life I find I can handle anything. He is waiting for you too. He is just a prayer away waiting to build a relationship of a lifetime.
2 Corinthians 11:18, 21-30
18since many boast of worldly things, I too will boast.) 21To my shame, I must say, we were too weak for that! But whatever any one dares to boast of -- I am speaking as a fool -- I also dare to boast of that. 22Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I. 23Are they servants of Christ? I am a better one -- I am talking like a madman -- with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless beatings, and often near death. 24Five times I have received at the hands of the Jews the forty lashes less one. 25Three times I have been beaten with rods; once I was stoned. Three times I have been shipwrecked; a night and a day I have been adrift at sea; 26on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, danger from my own people, danger from Gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brethren; 27in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure. 28And, apart from other things, there is the daily pressure upon me of my anxiety for all the churches. 29Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to fall, and I am not indignant? 30If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.
Psalms 34:2-7
1I will bless the LORD at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth. 2My soul makes its boast in the LORD; let the afflicted hear and be glad. 3O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together! 4I sought the LORD, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears. 5Look to him, and be radiant; so your faces shall never be ashamed. 6This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
Matthew 6:19-23
19"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal, 20but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. 22"The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light; 23but if your eye is not sound, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
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