Looking back

I ran across a journal entry from last November, written late one night (almost exactly three months before the promise) when God and I were having a heart to heart.  Some verses that stick out from it are:

And I will give you a new heart with new and right desires, and I will put a new spirit in you.  I will take your stony heart of sin and give you a heart of flesh.   Ezekiel 36:26

If you need wisdom - if you want to know what God wants you to do - ask him and  he will gladly tell you.   James 1:5

In my journal that is immediately followed by this (now very appropriate) list:

• I am to stop doubting.
• I am to trust in God and His provision and plan.
• I am to endure patiently.
• I am to let go of my idols.

These are the same lessons that He is bringing me through right now, framed in a different lens!

And in another journal, this one from a year ago January, I had begun to try to memorize Psalm 27.  My notes read, "Right now the part that resonates most to me is the final verse ~ Wait for the Lord, be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. ~ He only wants good for us, but sometimes the time for it isn't right.  And in our waiting, we need to do what is right, so that we are ready."

God really has been preparing me for this journey for quite a while!

PS.  Wait, wait, there's more!  A little further on in that same journal from January '10, I've got Psalm 40:1-3 written down.  But in my Bible it is first marked from 9/11/06.  And Psalm 27:13-14 is marked from 9/23/07.  All the dates written beside Psalm 96.  Sing a new song - be strong - courageous - wait on the Lord - ascribe to the Lord .  The pieces are starting to fit together.  God really has been preparing me for this journey for nearly five years!  My heart is singing the new song tonight, the hymn of praise to our God.