The New Year

As I place a new calendar on my desk, I am reminded of the countless days ahead. At times each day can feel and look the same; a repeat of failure or stagnation. At times, a person can look out on the ocean of a brand new year and feel like she is drowning in obscurity and uselessness. An insignificant lap of water in the ocean of waves...

And then I look at this calendar; something I made months ago. Each month of the year I pasted a verse from the book of Psalm and January's verse is most significant:

Psalm 3:3-5

"But thou, O Lord, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head. 4 I cried unto the Lord with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah. 5 I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the Lord sustained me."

It is a new year. It is time to walk in full faith; knowing that God, the maker of all life, is listening when we pray. It is time to stand like grown men and women, ready to walk fully in the will of God; not continue to crawl, like infants wanting always the easy way. Life is hard. It was never promised not to be; yet with God leading us, with walking in his will, how can anyone go wrong?

James 1:5-7

"If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. 6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. 7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord."

It is time to stop being tossed by turbulent seas. It is time to stop wavering in faith. It is time to look, listen, and believe that God is all he says he is, and that we (being saved through acceptance of Jesus Christ) are God's children. A father takes care of his children. How much more so does God, our Father, take care of us?

Building Me

Building Me

Silent moments catch my soul,
knowing I am not fully whole.
I breathe the vapors you hand down
thankful for the learning now.

Once, I would not sit so still
living life until I had my fill.
Growing moments set me free
knowing you were not done with me.

Quiet moments catch my soul;
I look for you to make me whole.
My thoughts are given humbly,
knowing you are building me...


copyright Leslie Lynn King 2008

The Substance

Hebrews 11:1-3

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 2 For by it the elders obtained a good report. 3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.

Such a small thing we need when God is so evident. The amazing part of it all is that He even provides the faith that we need.

In the Quiet Moments

Quiet moments are things to cherish

His words direct, so we may not perish.

Listen when he softly speaks,

for you are who He gently seeks.

In the quiet moments, if we can settle our souls and stop the flow of words that slip from our mouths, we will hear His voice gently speaking to us.

It is in those quiet moments, when we sit without spilling, when we listen instead of controlling
that we can hear Him so clearly.

In those quiet moments, when we lift our hands because no one is looking, when we let ourselves cry because it comes, when we humble ourselves, His voice filters to our souls.

I want those quiet moments, where I bare my soul without speaking, where I listen to the voice that spoke the world into creation, where I bask in awe because He wants to speak to me…
It is in those quiet moments that I am truly free.

1 Thessalonians 4:11-12

“And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; 12 That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.”

1 Timothy 2:1-3

“I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; 2 For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. 3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;”

Ps 131:1

“A Song of degrees of David. LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me. 2 Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child. 3 Let Israel hope in the LORD from henceforth and for ever.”

We May Obtain Mercy

Hebrews 4:12-16

"For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.

15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.

16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need."