Remember the LORD

Well, I basically have decided to join the blogging world because some of my very dear friends have done so and I have loved reading about the things they are learning and experiencing. I've always loved journalling...I feel like going back and reading through my old journals is a way that the Lord reminds me of how He's been at work the whole time, and even when I couldnt see it then, He's always been putting His plan into action.
Where I am in life right now, I feel like the Lord is doing SO much, and I just really want to remember it. I want to write down the things He teaches me so I can continue to learn them and apply them and be held accountable for them. I just dont want to forget...
Last week, for example, was a week from you-know-where. It was that way for a lot of reasons...a lot of external circumstances were definitely not ideal. And I was without joy and rest and peace and comfort. Looking back, I really think that the Lord is showing me that it was that way, no because of any lacking on His part, but because I simply forgot about Him. I went about my life, trying to fight through things that were hard, without remembering Him and allowing Him to fight for me; without remembering that He alone is my Rock and my salvation; that my life was created for His glory and that is where I will find purpose and rest and abundant joy. He tells me that He alone is the lifter of my head, and yet my head had not been lifted. I had forgotten about my sweet Jesus who died to bring me to Him. And let me tell you, last week freakin sucked.
But thank you LORD that He doesn't leave me there! He quickly He pulled me back and reminded me of who He is as my great and absolutely good and mighty Savior; and also who I am as a adulterous sinner, totally deserving of eternal death, yet made whole and pure and holy by His grace. And I think that when I remember the Lord, its like that song "the things of earth will grow strangely dim, in the light of His glory and grace."
So basically, I'm writing because I desperately want to remember Him. I want to see Him work. And for those of you that know Him of whom I speak, I want to encourage you and be encouraged by you, so share with me! For those of you that don't know Him, He longs for you to know Him as well : ) And He is much greater than I could ever make Him sound.

"The Lord is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He does not faint or grow weary; His understanding is unsearchable.
He gives power to the faint, and to Him who has no might He increases strength.
Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted;
but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength;
they shall mount up with wings like eagles;
they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint."
- Isaiah 40:28-31