Prone to Wander

As God teaches me the wonder and amazement of Himself I am in awe of His amazing works. This year I have learn so much regarding God's timing, His plans, His Will and what it means to follow it. But I am still struck by the swiftness that I turn away from all this and attempt to follow my own ways. My sinful, imperfect and disastrous ways.

Or when I forget God. It seems like something that wouldn't happen, I mean I'm always talking to people about how God is doing this ans that and I'm consistently reading my Bible and thinking about God things, how could I forget God? I believe our sinful nature makes to that God can easily be in the back of our minds, even the most respected and prominent theologians have lost sight of God one time or another. But I also believe that when we do forget and realize that we have forgotten we have to then take action and remember. God is constantly speaking to His people in the Bible, telling them to remember, we are such a forgetful and wretched people.
In saying take action, I do mean that we must then, when we forget, turn back to Him and ask for forgiveness. Satan uses one trick that is quite popular in which he tells us that God isn't interested in someone who forgets. "if you haven't prayed in a week, why pray now?" he might say. But I urge you, don't listen to that voice! Listen to God's loving receiving voice of remembrance. He is so joyful when people come back to Him. When I was little my mom used to tell us that every time we ask God to forgive us, he has a party up in heaven for us, along with those who have just asked Jesus to be their Lord and Savior. God celebrates it when we come to Him! So let's remember Him today and celebrate with Him. and When we do forget (because we will) turn away from our rebellion and return to His open Loving arms!

-Ainsley


Come thou fount of every blessing
Tune my heart to sing thy grace
Streams of mercy never ceasing
Call for songs of loudest praise
Teach me some melodious sonnet
Sung by flaming tongues above
I'll praise the mount I'm fixed upon it
Mount of thy redeeming love

Here I raise my Ebenezer
Hither by thy help I come
And I hope by thy good pleasure
Safely to arrive at home
Jesus sought me when a stranger
Wondering from the fold of God
He, to rescue me from danger
Interposed His precious blood

O to grace how great a debtor daily I'm constrained to be!
Let thy goodness like a fetter, bind my wandering heart to thee
Prone to wander Lord I feel it, prone to leave the God I love
Here's my heart, O take and seal it, seal it for thy courts above