email to my pastor

Do you remember the first sermon you preached for summer GOC two Thursdays ago? It was on God's attribute of holiness. It was really powerful -- each word hit me right here *pounds chest*. I believe it ultimately wasn't you but the Holy Spirit through you speaking to me and others in the room. These days the Lord has been deeply convicting me of how terrible a sinner I really am - truly no better than a criminal or prostitute or Pharisee - deserving of death, yet what I received was grace and forgiveness of sins.

God's doing a deep work in me. Sometimes it feels like it's going so slowly, but I realize that a lot of times it's my own sin and rebelliousness that's "impeding" God's work. Sometimes I also feel that my sins are "beyond cure" because they're so bad, but even in thinking that way I find myself detracting from the Gospel and Christ's death on the cross. In the end, I'm thankful that God is powerful and sovereign even over my sin and that His plans for me cannot be thwarted. What a relief!

Jeremiah 9:23-24 has been my daily prayer ever since you read it during call to worship two Thursdays ago. I've been meditating on and praying over those verses.

I just want to say thank you for preaching the Word of God so faithfully.

Your Sister in the Faith,
Frances

P.S. And your advice on finding out my weak areas and improving on those -- God has been faithful in revealing my weaknesses. Soooo messy and painful, but so worth it in the end.

thanks God for messing up my life plan

http://www.desiringgod.org/blog/posts/when-god-messes-with-your-life-plan

God seriously messed up Joseph's and Abraham’s life plans, and it turned out to be a really good thing. God accomplished for each of them what they could never have accomplished on their own.

I, too, have no personal life plan now. And I'm content leaving it that way. Because my God will make known to me in due time what He wants me to do.