Above All Else.

Seek the Lord while He may be found,

   Call upon Him while He is near.

Let the wicked forsake his way,

   And the unrighteous man his thoughts;

Let him return to the Lord,

   And He will have mercy on him;

And to our God,

   For He will abundantly pardon.

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,

   Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord.

“For as the heavens are higher than the earth,

   So are My ways higher than your ways,

And My thoughts than your thoughts. ~ Isaiah 55:6-9

   How many Christians sit every week in a Sunday service and hear the Word of God, but do not listen? How many of them get dragged down in bad times because they rely only on themselves?

   When we seek the Lord above all else, we find Him. Our situations disappear. Our focus shifts from the bad to His good. He does not want to see us suffer, but desires us to seek Him out. When we do this, our thoughts become His thoughts, and our ways His. Our paths become directed by Him.

   This isn't some magical formula that once we change our focus to Him, everything is fixed, but rather, we are in His will and we can have great confidence that He will remain in control.

~ Abby

PS - I'm thinking of creating a spot of this blog to share some of my poetry and writing. Thoughts?