God, let’s do this again next year
There’s no better way to start an entry than with a list (insert smile here).
God, this is what I’d like again next year please:
Growing with you
Learning from you
Knowing more of you
Trusting you
Listening to you
Relying on you
Talking to you
Obeying you
But I need your help God. I need your promises. I can’t do it on my own no matter how much I try.
Ephesians 3:20 “Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think.”
Yes, Please (insert check mark here). That’s exactly what I need God.
First, ALL glory to you God. If you’ve read my very first entry here, then you’ll see that it most certainly is God working in me doing this blog. The main goal of this blog is to glorify God (and help people). Without full assistance from God, I really cannot write these entries. I’d love to think I’m just a bit more capable than I am, but I am not. Thankfully, God is fully aware of this and is helping me glorify him.
Second, through God’s mighty power at work within me. Again, I can assure you to write these entries and publish them here, it does indeed take God’s mighty power working in me (again, entry One really says it all). I am so rebellious against God. So very insistent on my ways. So wrong. So convinced my ideas are better.
Me Me Me.
I love to follow me.
However, there really is no following me. I’m either following the world that the devil controls or I’m following God. That’s quite humbling. I’ll choose to follow God.
Third, God is able to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think. Even with my lofty opinions of myself, I cannot come close to achieving what God has shown me he can do. God is far more impressive than even the best I could think of to do on my own. Let’s stay with the example of starting this blog. This blog was definitely not my idea. In fact, that literally would’ve been laughable to me, even the idea would’ve been laughable (yet again basically the summary of entry One). I’m not a writer. I really have no clue what I’m doing. But evidently God does. And I am finding joy in doing it. Glorifying him and hopefully helping people.
Since this is the final entry of the year, I keep thinking how can I tie in all the past entries? Interestingly enough, there are eight entries so far…and if you look above at the list…there’s eight things I’d like more of from God next year. Hmmmmm…surely that’s no coincidence. This entry is extra fun because it’s full of lists! So here’s another one.
Growing with you - Blog entry Six - God, please save me…from myself
Learning from you - Blog entry Seven - God, I’d like less problems please
Knowing more of you - Blog entry Four - Is my life boring?
Trusting you - Blog entry Three - Yes God I’ll follow you…(as long as it’s easy)
Listening to you - Blog entry Eight - God, I’m not good enough
Relying on you - Blog entry Two - Baked Goodness
Talking to you - Blog entry Five - God, I might be mad at you
Obeying you - Blog entry One - Failure - God’s will for me
Wow God, that truly was infinitely more than I could ask or think for this entry! Ending the year in an EPIC double tie in list. It’s too good. Too fun. Too impressive to have come from me. And my speciality is lists! But I can assure you it didn't come from me. That was incredible, and I just love doing this blog.
God, please continue to mightily work in me to accomplish infinitely more than I may ask or think.
So perhaps I should change the title of this entry.
God, I’ll see you next year
So here it is.
Blog entry Nine
Follow God and Bake from your Heart,
Ellie