"Want Want Want"

I noticed recently that I always am wanting something! Whether its money and possessions or love from a significant other, but the other day at church one of the elders came to the pulpit and quoted Psalms 23-The Lord is my Shepard I shall not want...Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life.

He says this then that night as I started getting upset and feeling lonely again, Tenth Ave. North's song, "By Your Side" comes on the radio. The lyrics to this song go something like this----"Why are you looking for love Why are you still searching as if I'm not enough"----WOW!!!!

Ha God speaks to us all the time, you just got to keep those ears open!

What I learned when I started listening was God has it under control. I need to stop wanting things I don't need or aren't intended to have just yet! It just isn't God's will yet and until it is I have his love and I shouldn't take it for granted or forget that. Psalms 23 says goodness and mercy shall follow you, and its so true. You and I have an amazing life ahead of us, but we got to run on God's time not our own!



With Love,
Ally

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