LATE IN THE MIDNIGHT HOUR

If you're familiar with the title of this post then you know the song from which these lyrics come and it's stuck in your head right now. 

Your're Welcome.

This song is so uplifting to me. I often find myself singing it when I need to encourage myself. Speaking of midnight hours, I've been on the phone with a friend for the past three hours and I swear I'm not even tired. In fact I'm hyped. So much so that after I post this I'm going to the elf website to look at their new products and to qvc.com to look at the Dooney bags I'm currently craving. 

Anyway, our conversations were so that I felt the need to put some of it in writing to share with whomever wonders upon this site. We discussed a plethora of topics. Mostly, however, she's having relationship issues and I'm having every other kind. I told her to focus on herself and be less unavailable. She reminded me to have faith and to faint not.  

All good advice; all very hard to do. Often we don't want to do the hard things. Usually because doing the hard things are really hard to do. We are human. We want ease, comfort; instant gratification. When these things don't happen we get discouraged, stressed, hurt, and we give up or give in. But God. He says His grace if sufficient. We must believe that because we will fall short. 

My friend, talking about a romantic relationship, told me that when she got up the other morning to attend an event concerning her romantic relationship, a thought popped in her head: fish bowl; "you are like a fish in a fish bowl", the thought said to her. "You are being feed, every few days/weeks, by romantic relationship, and you just stay there and eat and wait to be feed again." "You are living in that fish bowl and accepting that processed food he is feeding you when your Father owns the ocean".
This was so profound to me. You are accepting little when you are the heir to great.

I am accepting little from myself. I am looking at the smaller picture because my comfort is being threatened and I am afraid. But I am the heir of great things. Why am I accepting little?  Well, because I am still doubtful at times and still have not fully realized that even when my faith is not sufficient God's grace still is and everything will work out for His glory. 
Late in the midnight hour, God turned it around.