Jay Mitchell

I have had a tough couple of weeks. Mainly self-inflicted .God responded with some swift  discipline  and broke me. But I asked Him too. I repeated this prayer to him early last month from psalm 32:9; 'Lead me like the mule if You have too!' and the passage for that is from is below. "I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; "I will guide you with My eye.   Do not be like the horse   or   like the mule, Which   have no understanding"   So he did just that, led me like a mule, but because He cares so much for me. But it did brake me. 

“When you’re tempted to give up, I choose love.” I heard this song today. It had the above line in it. It really hit home for me. The song was about someone who was at the end of their rope. Had enough. Couldn’t do life any more.   And the singer is saying choose love when you’re wanting to give up. This perplexed me a little. On one hand the person wanting to give up is saying ‘I cant do anything more with my life.’ And the singer is saying, ‘make one more choice, choose….. Love.’ This meant a lot to me as I wanted to give up myself on my dreams and aspirations. As I heard this, the picture I got was of me falling back into God’s arms and relaxing.   I thought ‘That’s strange’. We are so ‘works’ based as the human race. Do, do, do. To get love, do something. Well today I choose to let go of doing. My Father in Heaven is just that, He’s my Father. He loves me so much. He will never stop loving me because I loose my faith in my own abilities. This was the s...