SIESTA Scripture Memory Team 2011

The first on my list for memorization in 2011 seems very fitting to me! We often ask for the eyes of the Lord to see things as He does and to see them clearly. We also ask and sing our request for our eyes to be opened so for me I choose and NEED 1 Corinthians 13:12. I have picked the New Living Translation for this verse. This just seemed so fitting for me personally. So many things this last year hit me that I could not see coming or if and when I did I just could not fully understand it...it was as if "it were in a mirror".

1 Corinthians 13:12, "Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely." NLT

Our eyes fools us; to "see" something also implies that we comprehend it, as God fully does us! Our sight is limited and incomplete. Our sight to often lacks vision to put it plainly. This last year brings some mirror images to my mind that just flat wears me out to try to make sense of so I will trust Him who knows me. The year before cloudier still and the year before that...etc. You get my drift...imperfect...unclear...incomplete! I must also be mindful not to focus on the circumstances but on the ONE who holds them all. When I am tired and feel that I can't do one more thing...I will trust the One who brought me to it because He knows me!

He Sees Me!!!

El Roi!

Recently I began following a new blog named A Rose in Texas and the latest post by Tammy fit spot on with my first verse. Read her post here: A Rose in Texas: Let There Be Light. Most of all I wanted to share a quote from her post:

There is one element that must be present for any of us to experience the miracle of vision - Light! Without light, we cannot see. No matter how perfect our "vision", if we live in darkness, we experience only blindness.





"This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in Him there is no darkness at all." 1 John 1:5

I "see" her point! I "see" John's point! And now I want all I "see" to point to Christ!
Trying to see correctly by viewing through a mirror or trying your best to make out aspects of items in the dark create puzzling and backward images. I want to see beyond this life and beyond the length of my own arm and have a perspective straight from my Heavenly Home. If it doesn't make sense here I want to fully trust that He has it under His capable control and the Lord God Almighty indeed has my very best in mind - He sees it! He knows it! He knows me!

It is not too late to join in if you want the best challenge of 2011 to be truly mind changing! Go here to Living Proof Ministries blog for instructions and here to post up! Get a spiral of index cards and begin your journey of knowing Him more and the journey toward clear vision!

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Abiding Still,
Chel