Day 6
This morning, I woke up thinking about the word: everything.
Sometimes I feel like everything is falling apart. Other times I think everything is great. I have felt like everything was wrong in my life. And I have felt like everything was perfect.
Did you know that there are over 790 verses in the Bible that use the word everything?
How will I ever choose one to work through today? [smile]
This one though…seems to wrap my thoughts up on this word: everything –for today:
Romans 11: 36 “Everything comes from him; Everything happens through him; Everything ends up in him. Always glory! Always praise! Yes. Yes. Yes. Place Your Life Before God.”
Question 1- What does this passage say?
Seems simple enough:
Everything comes from God. Everything.
Everything happens by His hands. Everything.
He truly is…Everything.
Question 2- What does this passage mean?
Its easy to think of God as the creator and maker of everything.
But what does it mean to see God as our everything? I think that is a little more complicated. Something I’m having a harder time wrapping my mind around.
Question 3- What does this passage mean to me?
I think I’ve said it before: Jesus is my everything. But I’m not sure I’ve ever fully comprehended what that means.
A few months ago, I took Hope [my middle girl] to the doctor because she was having some problems in school and we wanted to make sure there was nothing physically wrong. They did blood work, asked us a ton of questions and the doctor handed me all kinds of papers to read.
But, I felt like the doctor was trying to label her. Put her in a box. Point her in the direction that other kids were going. And something inside of my momma soul was not having that.
I felt like we had not tried everything yet. So I prayed things through and asked God to guide me. It turned out there were a few very simple solutions to her issues. More sleep. Fish oil [weird, I know!]. And more one on one time on my part [middle child syndrome].
But what if I would have stopped and labeled her like I felt he doctor was doing?
Would she be on some type of medication that she didn’t need? Would we still be doing tests? Would this be an area that she and I would be stressing out about?
Hang on…I am going somewhere with this.
How many times have I labeled myself?
*Failure
*Fearful
*Desperate
*Alone
*Not qualified
Oh yes, I have mis-diagnosed my soul more than once.
If God is really everything…then that has to mean that He is my everything too. And I don’t just mean my hero…the God who picked me up when I fell down. It has to be so much more than that.
What if I continue to label myself those things? Then they will become my everything.
But if God is my everything then the only label I will ever need to hold is: everything.
Because everything in God’s eyes looks like this:
*Perfect
*Whole
*Complete
*Redeemed
*Free
*Hopeful
*Loved
*Good
I want everything….more than ever.
3 Comments
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Hi Nicki! This is such a great post and speaks so many truths. Labeling seems to be the way of our culture…so easy to do however, often hurtful and something hard to remove. Often forgetting who God says we are we trudge on with this umbrella of negative labels hanging over us. God is bigger than all of it and if we keep our eyes on Christ we can overcome and let the SON shine down upon us and help us to put that umbrella away…..Everything is a perfect label! Amen!
These daily posts are amazing friend. I have labeled myself wrong all my life. It’s only been in recent years that God is showing me what is TRUTH about me. And some days are hard to understand those truths – but glory to God He is teaching this girl. Thanks for your openness in these posts!! They are such a blessing 🙂
Nicki, I am enjoying these posts so much. I think I in some way study this way, but I love how Anne Graham Lotz explains it so easily. We all try to make studying scripture so hard which causes intimidation and ultimately defeat. I love what all He is teaching you.
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