Dear Ones,
Hope you are eager to move on into what the Lord has for you today. Thank you for praying for me yesterday as I had my EMG and NCS tests. I could feel the prayers and had peace through it all and it wasn’t too painful. PTL! I will share more after I hear from my doctor and his interpretation of the Neurologist’s notes. Today I plan to bake Christmas cookies and go to my Exercise class, Crafts, and Bible study.
Devotions from Judy’s heart
All of us have perhaps had times when we are settling and not moving forward into what the Lord has next for us. We are comfortable where we are at, and it is a bit disconcerting to move on into the unknown. But the Lord always has more instore for us and wants us to get out of our comfy mode and embrace the new. The trouble is that we don’t know what the new looks like and we may simply settle into where we are presently at.

I read a devotional from “Trusting God Day by Day” and it spoke to me about the importance of trusting and moving on with the Lord. Deuteronomy 32 verse 11-12 says, “Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, hovers over its young, spreads its wings to catch them, and carries then on it’s feather, so the Lord led his people.” The mama eagle wants her eaglets to be able to fly but for the first 3 months, she feeds them and they rest in their comfortable nest. But after that she starts dismantling the nest and taking out the soft animal fur, feathers etc. and they begin to get pricked and uncomfortable by the sticks and thorns. She pushes them out of the nest and when they start falling, she is there and swoops under them and catches them. At first, they may wonder what is going on but eventually they understand that mama isn’t being mean but wants them to fly. Eventually rather than rest in the prickly branches of the nest, they learn to fly.

Are there times we feel like the Lord is saying to us, “Time to move on!” But we know that we must face the unknown and not sure if we will like it or will we miss the old. That is where trust comes in, for we put ourselves in the Lord’s hands and have to get out of our comfortable “nest”. At first it feels like we may fall and crash but His wings are there to catch us and help us. As we get acclimated and out of our former rut, we find that flying is fun, we can move ahead and not be in the cramped nest. Let us not hold back when the Lord is nudging us to move on but trust that His wings are always spread to catch up and help us as we learn to fly.

Challenge for today: Be willing to leave what is comfortable and known for is unknown when God says, Move ahead!
Blessings on your day and prayers and love, Judy