I love when God uses the little things. A friend recently
sent me an email which was signed “Hidden with Christ in God Col.3:3” I am not
even sure why, but a sudden curiosity came over me to look up the verse; which
caused me to keep reading, and just be touched and convicted by this letter
from Paul. At first it was just a conviction of the old self that I seem to slip back on so easily, and my desire for my life
to be hidden with Christ in God. I began looking at the ways I continue to put
on my old self. How I am so selfish, and how that keeps me from truly caring
about the needs of others. I then began thinking about my floor, and how I want
and need to really care about the girls on my floor. And then verse 14 came,
which says, “And above all these, put on love, which binds everything together
in perfect harmony.” Which is crazy, since that is exactly what I want for my
floor. I want to help foster a community bonded in harmony and growth in
God. Then as I thought about how to go
about this, I began to realize how I really should start praying for them more.
How prayers connect us, and how praying for them would help me more truly care
for them. And then as I look over I saw highlighted in my bible over in chapter
4:2, “Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving.” And
then a little further down in verse 5, the words, “… making the best use of the
time”
God has given me this great opportunity to be a leader on a
floor of almost 40 girls, and so I want to make the best use of my time here
with them. Paul in the verses before he states that asks for prayer that God
would open the door for him to declare Christ to others. My friends, I ask that
you would pray a similar prayer for me. Pray that God would prepare me and the
present open doors for me to be the sister in Christ those around me need. Pray
that I wouldn’t waste this great opportunity to be in daily fellowship with my
sisters. Pray that I would walk in love, and never forget the power of prayer.
Pray that this year; my life would truly be hidden in Christ in God.
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