Srhm: He hasn't forgotten yOu!!! you are the apple of His all seeing eye : ) JER. 29:11
It is Christmas Day and I want to say Merry Christmas!! If I were to even try to tell you about my own life experiences that God has so faithfully stood by me through and ALLOWED to happen to me, though it wasn't my own doing, but because sin is in the world, I wouldn't know where to begin, there's just SO MUCH..
No one would look at my life and want it, and I don't sulk about that because I know that I have a life that is pleasing to the Father, and to me, that knowledge is what I have learned to be fundamental in getting through all the 'gunk' that can go on in this world. I am persuaded that if tested enough, we all come to the question of "WHY GOD?" for some it takes very little, others it takes the hurricane, but if tested enough we all find that we are fundamentally flawed and when we come through that testing we discover that God is nothing like humanity!! With it's flaws and imperfections, He doesn't share in any of our weakensses and HE LOVES US knowing how GREAT ours are!!!
This to me is the true wonder of this time of year, the reality that in the face of the non-believing world shopping and giving gifts, but not knowing the Saviour for whom the day is meant to commemorate,, not knowing that it's not at all about what we have to give, not to God or one another, but what HE HAS FREELY GIVEN TO US as sinners-- THE TRUTH that when you have GOD you have EVERYTHING.. ROMANS 8:32 LET GOD BE GLORIFIED FOR ALL ETERNITY
That though we suffer, because we live in a rebellious world where peoples hearts are hardened towards The Lord, by HIS POWER we overcome it all!! In this HE IS GLORIFIED forever , that we are living testaments to HIS GREATNESS, that will be recorded for all eternity in heaven, for God's Praise and Glory.. When we have a right perspective, which we will in heaven, we won't have all the ''gunk'' that we have to contend with in this present form and world. And then we will see things clearly, but even though we have all the stuff to deal with, we can still have those moments of clarity, when we get that it's not about us at all, but about the one who created everything and that we can commune with Him, our lives are so small and yet they count before Him. Because it pleased Him to choose you out of the world, HE DID IT and everyday He holds on to you, even though you don't feel Him or hear Him he hasn't stopped speaking to you, because what He has said still abides!!!!!!!!
Really there is nothing to beat right perspective and who can say that they always feel and walk in it,, not I, but I do know that when I'm thinking straight, not according to what I can see with my sight, but what I know by God's divine revelation nothing else matters, because I have this immovable knowledge that GOD IS IT and that NOTHING can tear me away from that and I have lived through enough storms to know that the devil is real and he is seeking those he may devour and that's what he wants to do you and your family and ONLY GODS POWER can keep you.. Don't trust in your feelings, or your hearing, but HIS WORD!!! Because that is YOURS when you believe it and the more it's tested and purified the deeper and purer your faith will become.. YOU ARE NOT ALONE IN YOUR STRUGGLES, we all have them and God is at the helm of them all.. I pray that no matter what is to be, your faith will not fail.. In Christ's Name amen...
jer. 29:11
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...Wherever He Leads Me ... I Shall Follow...
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