Scripture Memory Team Verse Eleven!

Hi Girls!  Look at the beautiful reminder that I was given the other day... glorious!  There was a day when I would have looked at this and thought about 'Pots of Gold' and pretended that I was Judy Garland, wishing upon a star and waking up where the clouds were far behind me... you know, in that land where troubles melt like lemon drops... away above the chimney tops.  But now when I see this beautiful sight my thoughts are filled with the great love that God has for us, of His promises, and His faithfulness.

I've been thinking about the promises of God lately.  Like the promise of Him giving us rest... 

Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, 

and I will give you rest.  

Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, 

for I am gentle and humble in heart, 

and you will find rest for your souls.  

For My yoke is easy and My burden is light. 

                                           Matthew 11:28-30 (NASB)  

His promise stands firm, He will give us rest... yet we have a responsibility in this too... it's that we come to Him.  

My memory verse for the next two weeks is actually James 1:22-25 (NASB).  God would have me to be an effectual doer and not a forgetful hearer!  I am to live out the Word that has been placed within me and not simply hear it and delude myself into thinking that this is enough.  This is true rest in the midst of living out our days... being yoked together with Him is to cease from striving, to know that He is God, that if He is for us then who could be against us, it's to find rest for our weary souls and to live according to His Word, according to what we have learned from Him.  

Coming to Him, taking His yoke upon us, learning from Him and living accordingly... this is when we see the glorious Promise of God bursting through the clouds with a Beauty that takes our breath away.

But prove yourselves doers of the word, 

and not merely hearers who delude themselves.  

For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, 

he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror;

 for once he has looked at himself and gone away,

 he has immediately forgotten what kind of person he was.  

But one who looks intently at the perfect law, 

the law of liberty, 

and abides by it, 

not having become a forgetful hearer, 

but an effectual doer, 

this man will be blessed in what he does.

                    

 love,