and it fit! I am beyond excited, I think! What about? My dress for the wedding coming up next month. You know how I struggled with the dress I wore to my granddaughter's wedding last year. It was a beautiful dress, but was very uncomfortable and I felt very fat in it due to the way it was made. But the dress I ordered this time - on Amazon no less!! - arrived yesterday. I waited until I went to my daughter's to try it on, for I wanted an honest opinion. I was so happy.... it FIT! Sizes are beyond description anymore and I had no clue if this would fit or not. But it did. I chose rightly the size. The right color came. And it fit. I was so thrilled (thank you, Jesus, for answering my prayers!) that it fit. Even the length - I am pretty sure I have the right height on my shoes that I won't even need to get it hemmed. I am beyond excited. And if I should get lucky to lose a few pounds in the next 5 weeks or so... it will still be ok. Thank you, Jesus! Yes, the photos I took in the mirror make me look fat - but I AM fat - so get over it! Right?
Don't know if hubby is going for his training or not this morning. He was thinking of texting our trainer last night. Seems that hubby bought 'medicine' off the computer for his 'problem'... and we are guessing it gave him a reaction... which is interesting as it is a lot like the reaction he had to the shot. Diarrhea, nausea, itching all over his body.... so when he told me what he had done....yes, I 'chewed' him out! Why would he buy something he knows nothing about and put in his body when he knows he already has an issue there; he may have rejected continuing the shots, but the drug is still in his system for awhile that he got just a few weeks ago. Why would he take something like that?
Oh I get it, I really do. We have such high hopes that 'other medications' will help us. How many diet pills and solutions have I taken over the years, not knowing what was in them? Hey - just saying I'm just as guilty as he is... only his was for medicinal purposes. I can't blame him for wanting his 'issue' resolved... but if the doctors can't do anything but have him resort to pills or shots... don't mess with things you don't know, right? We all learn our lessons from these times.
This morning I was reading about Jonah. Remember him? He was the one that God told him to go to Nineveh. Now. And Jonah refused and snuck off on a ship to sail away.... and ended up getting thrown off the ship and swallowed by a fish for three days, but the fish vomited him up on the beach. Yeck.
Jonah 1:1-2 "The word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amitai saying, "Arise, go to Nineveh the great city and cry against it, for their wickedness has come up before Me.""
Nineveh was a horrible town that had a reputation for inflicting physical and psychological terror on its enemies, especially the Israelites. That's why Jonah didn't want to go there - but God said, "Go". As much as Jonah protested to God, he still was told "Go". Didn't God care? Sure He did. But He wanted the Word spoken against Nineveh... long story short... after getting vomited out on the beach by the great fish, Jonah did speak the Word against Nineveh and they fasted and repented (even the animals were made to fast!) and covered themselves with ashes and sackcloth. And God relented on His judgement of them, for He saw they truly repented.
2 Chronicles 7:14 (NKJV): "If my people, who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land."
What's your Nineveh? Where's the place you never want to go? Or maybe your Nineveh is not a place at all. Maybe it's a person - someone that God's Spirit, speaking through His Word, is pressing you to forgive and show compassion toward - an ex-spouse, an abusive parent, a betraying friend. The mere thought of being gracious and empathetic toward them is more than you can stomach. Like Jonah, you can think of a million reasons to hang back or run away. And yet, 'the word of the Lord' has spoken to you, not unlike it came to Jonah. It keeps popping up in your mind. And that's God, plain and simple. You know it is, and His Spirit is pressing you to move in the direction He wants you to go. Can you really say no? To your Nineveh? But can you say yes?
Yes, Yes you can. That is the only answer that is certain of yielding a response that has God's blessing written all over it. To say no is to invite the chronic distress and confusion that threw Jonah into the big fish's belly. But to say yes is to embark toward what God has for you. Turn your no into a yes and see what miracles God will do through you by your obedience.
What miracle are you in need of? What are you seeking and asking God for? Has He asked YOU to do something first - and you just don't want to do it so you are ignoring it? So you delay your blessing because you aren't obedient? Ah... perhaps the belly of the big fish is where we all need to be until we recognize that God is Lord of all things, big and small. And submit to His authority, and do what He says, instead of what we want.
Something to think about....
Blessings!
