I have just learned the power of journaling. Having faced a tough moment in the last few months, I decided to read my own blog. To my amazement I was encouraged by what I wrote a few months ago. A friend of mine recently told me, "your mind will forget but ink won't". In other words, as we journal our lives down, we are tracking down our journey and when faced with challenging times, we can just pick up that journal and say "hey! I remember God coming through for me in February. I will trust Him through this hurdle."
God spoke with the Isarelites saying:
(Deuteronomy 6)
6And these words which I am commanding you this day shall be [first] in your [own] minds and hearts; [then]
7You shall whet and sharpen them so as to make them penetrate, and teach and impress them diligently upon the [minds and] hearts of your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down and when you rise up.
8And you shall bind them as a sign upon your hand, and they shall be as frontlets (forehead bands) between your eyes.
9And you shall write them upon the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
It wasn't enough to have it in their hearts. God made sure that His words were visible: on their hand, forehead, on their doorposts, even on the gate!
There is such a power that comes in being re-affirmed from our own personal victories.
From this day, I give myself to the power of the ink and document this awesome journey!
