FROG. Fully relying on God

As the fairy tales put it if you kiss a frog it can turn into a handsome prince. As that only comes true in fairy tales we need to look at the frog differently.

We need to be the one who turns into the frog when it has to do with the analogy or word picture of:

F~~fully
R~~rely
O~~on
G~~God

Too often in our lives we try to rely on all sorts of things other than God. We try drugs, alcohol, food, activities, ourselves, other people, and so much more.

We think relying on God is a form of weakness when it really is a form of strength. Strength to admit God is the better choice and allowing God to lead and guide us a better way to go.

In comparison to the other things we try to rely on we soon find out God is the most reliable of them all. Sometimes it's not going to feel that way as you wonder why God let grandma get cancer or grandpa die of congestive heart failure. It's not because God is not reliable in curing our love ones. Things happen for a reason. We learn when we go thru tough times. We grow spiritually when we have to deal with difficult situations.

Instead of looking at it as God not being reliable look at it as "what can I learn from this moment in my life." God is there, He will always be there just see that you are too leaning and relying on Him.

Trust In and Rely On

In the scripture my granddaughters and I read today we found this in Psalm 52:8,9. Both of them just starting out in life at the age of ten and thirteen they are just now learning what trust is all about.

Growing up in a backwards world it seems like we are having to teach our kids more who they cannot trust than who they can. Being let down by a society that does as it pleases with no regard to others it's hard to know who you can trust.

It's a wonderful thing to know we can trust in the Lord. His lovingkindness and mercy is something we can confidently rely on forever and ever.

God will never let us down and we need to do the same for Him. We need to be reliable in our own way as we wait on, hope in and expect in the name of The Lord whose name is good, powerful and worthy of praise. A name that one day every knee shall bow to and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.

Now not later is the time to trust in and rely on the Lord.


Copyright 2014 Karen J Gillett at Pencil Marks and Recipe Publishing

Picture DEES #45 Cleaning up the mess

Before                                                                                         After

It sure doesn’t seem like it takes long to get a room dirty. My grandkids can do it quicker than quick. Perhaps they learned it from their grandma who is known as a “pack rat.” That is someone who likes to collect things and hold on to more.

What’s interesting is the fact that things pile up and pile up before we even realize it. It takes a great deal of effort on our part to clean it up and get it looking as it should. Perhaps if we would do that as we go along the task wouldn’t be that hard.


We do that with our personal lives and the junk we allow to pile up in it. Before we know it we have a mess because of the choices we have made, the attitudes we have held on to, and the emotions we’ve allowed to control us. At first glance it looks like it would be impossible to ever be able to straighten it all out but with time and effort we can.


With the help of the Lord we can clean up the messes we have made. It is to Him we need to run to and seek forgiveness and guidance going forward. If we stay strong before we know it we will find our way moving from the “before” picture to the “after” picture. A picture made perfect in Christ through our weaknesses.


To some it may take longer to get the job done but if we stay with Christ all things are possible. In other words, we need to make sure that we don’t give up until the job is done!