Blog’s are rather mysterious things. You write something, you send it, it floats through the internet atmosphere, appears as a post in a blog. You never know what happens from there.
My name is Jeannette and I am in control of this blog. I don’t know who reads it, but occasionally someone mentions a post, so I know that someone out there in internet land is reading.
This is officially the blog for a ministry, Cottonwood Women's Ministry. I am the blog writer for this, so I consider this “my” blog. Sometimes, I will think about a post and decide it is too personal to put on a blog that is really a “ministry” blog, not a “personal” blog. The problem is, sometimes I don’t know where “ministry” ends and my “personal life” starts.
Today I am writing a “personal” blog. Today I am feeling a little stressed. It has been a stressful season. I don’t want to explain (I am not willing to get THAT personal!) but just understand there have been some extra stressors in my life the last few months.
Yesterday was my birthday, and God gave me a verse, sort of my verse for the year.
“The end of all things is at hand; therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers. 8 Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. 9 Show hospitality to one another without grumbling. 10 As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace: 11 whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ.”
1 Peter 4:7-11
I know that Peter was telling the believers that the end of the age was coming, the time when Jesus would be returning. But, the word that God gave me was that the end of all things would be coming. No circumstance will last forever. Every situation will come to an end. In the meantime, I am to be disciplined to pray. That is the source of strength and power to persevere through the difficult time. And I am to love earnestly, which also means fervently, and without end. When relationships are difficult, we have to decide to love anyway, to commit to loving. Then, Peter says to show hospitality, to remain open to people, receiving, accepting others. And continue to serve in the gifts that God has given me. If I do these things, I will get through the hard times, the times of stress; and in the end, God will be glorified.
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