Being vs Doing....

As I sit here thinking over the last week of pain, hurt, confusion, and exhaustion...one thought kept coming back to me ...my one word - Steadfast.  I kept asking why and yet You met me with silence.  Maybe You  didn't think I was ready for your answers and You were right.

Over the last 6 months when I thought about participating in a One Word Challenge, my choices were almost always "kinder, softer, others driven" words.  You however kept whispering steadfast and You never gave me peace about any other word until I embraced that. one. word.

I now know (in part) why You gave me steadfast.  As an all-knowing, all-loving, all mercy giving God, You knew that I would need to become steadfast during this time.  Not steadfast in things (Bible reading, prayer, service, organization, etc) - although those things aren't bad; You knew I needed to become steadfast in You!!

For now we see through a glass darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know, even also as I am known.
   1Corinthians 13:12

Steadfast in communing with You; steadfast in knowing that You are a loving God, steadfast in knowing that Your ways are definitely not my ways and your thoughts are higher than mine and that EVERYTHING You do, has an eternal purpose.

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
   Isaiah 55:8

For I know that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
   Romans 8:18

Thank you Lord for your loving knudges, your loving kindnesses, your tender mercies, your steadfastness to me - even when I resist or doubt You.

Abiding in Him,
    Tiff