"…encourage the timid…" (1Thess 5:14)
Anna June.30.2003
Crazy! It has been nearly 3 weeks since I've published my last entry. I tried and tried and tried to write this message, and every time I came close to the finish, I would erase it because it just didn't feel like something I was suppose to talk about. You see folks, I've been a little discouraged because I've felt like my attempts to write were futile due to the fact that only a couple of people were checking to see if anything new was on the site. This isn't to put down the few people who do read this site. I really want to encourage people, but often times my initially good intentions become perverted when my pride comes out "to play".
I am thankful that God uses me for any encouragement at all, because he doesn't have to. He could easily fix it that whatever came off my fingers onto this screen would come out as gibberish, making me like the fig tree that bore no fruit so he told it that it would never bear fruit again.
As I continue to allow God to melt my pride, I am constantly reminded that other people are not the ones who are encouraged by this the most. The time I spend with God while I do the "research" for each of these writings allows me to be reminded that I desperately need the accountability of keeping them up to date.
So, for the people who read this (especially Jessie): thank you. You have encouraged me far more than you could know. It is important that we do so daily, for as the writer of Hebrews says,
See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness. Hebrews 3:12-13
