A peek into my journal | Prov 4:18

Disclaimer: This will be the first time I have ever shared from my personal journal online. Mostly because my journal is just made up of prayers and reflections on scriptures or happenings in my life that are just between me and the Lord. However, this week I went back and re-read some of my past journal entries and found this one to be so encouraging. My heart just lept with joy thinking about the truths found in the scripture and in the prayer that I wrote reflecting upon it. My only hope in sharing this is to simply encourage my gracious readers to think about the day that is coming for all of us who hope in Christ! What a beautiful glorious day that will be! What hope we have in this present time while we await the fulfillment of that hope! Press on sweet sisters!

November 7, 2009- Proverbs 4:18

"But the path of the just is like the light of dawn, that shines brighter until the perfect day" (NASB, NKJ)

Lord, what an encouraging verse! What hope! What promise! That just as the sun peeks it's face over the horizon and the day begins to break over the darkness, so is the life of a believer. Gradually, bit by bit the sun gets brighter and casts off more light until it reaches the highest point. A bright so bright that it casts out all darkness! This perfect day is coming for me as well! As I am growing and walking with you Lord, your light is shining bright and the darkness is fleeting from the corners of my heart until the perfect day when you take me to be with you, and I stand in your radiant beautiful presence in my glorified, perfected body. Just as the Son, so bright and pure that there is no place for darkness! What a glorious and perfect day this will be! Lord, help me to be encouraged by this verse as I am constantly battling the sin in my heart and the world around me! Help me to take hold of this beautiful promise in those days that seem so dank and dark. Help this verse pierce through the dreary clouds of discouragement and doubt and give me a glimmer of the day that will dawn in an instant. Remind me Lord, this life is but a hand breadth, then there is HEAVEN! Amen.