Welcome to the new ALC Lady in Waiting blog! Natalie, Stephanie and I are excited about this new adventure!! We hope to give you tips for walking with God daily, fun clothing/hair ideas, and be very real with you about the struggles of being a young Christian lady and how to overcome those struggles and stay true to your convictions. If there is anything particular you want us to write about, feel free to let us know and we'll see what we can do :) So, here goes...our first devotion ever!! So exciting, right? Well, to me it is LOL
This morning on the way to work I was reading Having a Mary Spirit by Joanna Weaver (I can read because someone else drives the bus!) One of the statements I read was "I'm so glad we have a Savior who loves us just as we are, but loves us too much to leave us that way." I don't know how you feel, but I am so glad He didn't leave me the way He found me. I'm so very far from perfect, but I am so much more than I used to be. Sometimes, I still have a hard time believing He is willing to invest enough in my life to change things about me that are less than desirable. Driving down I-45 one day, listening to KSBJ, I heard "today I feel like I'm just one mistake away from You leaving me this way" and I started to panic. You see, I don't want to stay the same. I want to grow more like Him every day. When Esther was chosen to be a candidate for queen, she was forced to endure one solid year of beauty treatments. One of the things required of the women chosen, was to sit every day for six months in a pool of perfume. The purpose was that the perfume would sink so far into their pores that in every situation, no matter how nasty or sweaty, the queen would still smell lovely. (This was before deodorant LOL) My prayer lately has been "Lord, in every situation, no matter how stressful, no matter how disheartening or depressing...even no matter how exciting and new, let my life reveal You. Change me Lord. Make me more like You." I no longer feel panic when I hear those words blaring from my car radio. No matter how I feel on any given day, my God loves me too much to leave me the way I am. He loves you too much as well.
XOXO,
Amberly
Yay for our first post!!!! I loved it, Amberly! I was driving to work this morning and just as I pulled in the song "He Loves Us" came on. Now, I've heard (played/sang) this song a GAZILLION times, but this morning it just seemed to hit me all over again! HE loves ME!!! How can that be? I am so undeserving of His love and mercy, yet He constantly lavishes it on me....day after day, mistake after mistake...it never ends!
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Love all of you!!!
Natalie
I'm so happy you are doing this. It's not good only for Tiffanie but I will enjoy it too. I'm thankful for the burden the 3 of you have for our young ladies. Love you all very much and pray for you daily.
ReplyDeleteI'm very excited to see this & see that you all are doing this. I always had a dream of starting something related to this but because of so many things I just drew myself close to 3 special young girls in my life. I recently started a women's group in my school so I feel God is opening those doors for me. Well enough about that. I also wanted to share something that happen last night. I was home about to go to bed and I had one of my young girls text me & we had a text prayer meeting. I prayed that exact prayer: "Lord, in every situation, no matter how stressful, no matter how disheartening or depressing.... let my life reveal You. Change me Lord. Make me more like You"... Im very excited for this!!!
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