Come Away My Beloved

Well, it's been a couple of weeks since my last blog entry. I've been praying about what was going to be in this blog entry and I had something in mind for quite awhile but God changed that idea this afternoon. This is another very personal entry and that's why I chose this picture with one path...I know you all think that it is easy for me to write this stuff. MJ's just vunerable, you say...but honestly it is always a struggle for me to share...the REAL stuff anyway...bc I don't always want to share (AND I don't always share) what is going on with me, life, and my God. Now I wouldn't mind writing about all of the good stuff God is doing in my life or things that put me in a better light but this REAL nitty gritty stuff (feelings & actions) is truly no fun to write. Sometimes I wonder and worry about what you all think of me...or God. All that to say, I do think I'm supposed to share an experience I had with the Lord today in this blog.
Anyway, I know it's not like 100's of people read my blog ha! I can barely get my best friends to remember that I have a blog. These entries are sort of like a "diary" of things the Lord has been teaching me and speaking to me. This afternoon is a SIGNIFICANT day that I want to remember and want recorded. I'm actually home with the flu...and feel like crap!! Isn't it funny how God speaks to us when we are down and out...this way He has our undivided attention bc I don't feel like talking to anyone, eating, watching t.v., housekeeping, exercising, going to work...etc. You know all the things that can "distract us"...I just mentioned some of my distractions above. This afternoon, again, I felt myself needing a touch from my Papa...I'm so desperate for more of Him, people. I want to love HIM above all others and I want to feel secure in His love for me. As I was asking Him to speak "something" to me this is where He led me:
"Come Away My Beloved" by Frances J. Roberts ( I haven't picked this up in 2 years)
p. 96-97
"I ask you not to DO, but to BE. For whatsoever is of the flesh is flesh; but when you allow My spirit to have free course, when you cease to interfere with My moving within you, then those things that shall be accomplished both within and through you will be truly the LIFE OF GOD. For My Spirit is the Spirit of Life, and My Spirit is the motivating power of Divine energy. ALL ELSE IS DEATH. As it is written, "Flesh and blood CANNOT inherit the Kingdom of God" (I. Cor. 15:50). Neither can man through any endeavor of his own, however holy his purpose, produce this life, which does not exist apart from the direct activity of the Spirit of God. For I am WITH you and I am in IN you to make you neither barren nor unfruitful. I am in YOU to give you Life, and to give it to you ABUNDANTLY, yes, LIFE WITHOUT LIMIT.
For all I am able to do for you is limited only by My omnipotence and My eternal, everlasting Life and Power, and to these THERE ARE NO LIMITS!! Lo, I wait to bless you; I wait to give you of My fullness. I delight to do for you, because I love you beyond your power to begin to know. Only drop those things you grasp in your hand, and place your hands in Mine. Only pull your eyes from those things you hold precious, and I will fill them with My glory. Release your affections from all others. Place in My hands those you hold dear. Leave them in My keeping: for so shall your heart be set free to seek Me without distraction. For when I am to you more precious than all else; when I have become more real to you than all else; and when you love me more than you love any other, then shall you know complete satisfaction."
Anyone else distracted? Anyone else want to know complete satisfaction?
Tuesday November 21, 2006