Is there a shining star amidst the refuge?
Can God revive a dead carcus?
Is there anything too difficult for Him?
The scriptures say that something
must die, in order to be raised again.
This is new life! Do we believe?
When we have nailed our own
understanding to the cross of suffering,
all things are possible with Him.
It's very scared to revisit places that
have been defiled, only to be raised
up for God's glory.
Courage is needed to rediscover
God's true destiny for a relationship.
We will choose the risk of a new life?
Restoration follows true grieving, death
of a dream, and dying to our ideas of things.
What is God's perspective?
What is the eternal design to bring Him Glory?
How can we know, if we don't open our
spirits to the One who created relationships?
I am convinced that only death of a dream
can pave the way for the ultimate purpose
of God in this life. Selah.
Stumbling through the corridors, looking for the answer
to set me free. There He was. I saw Him, but only for a moment.
His glaring eyes took my breathe away. He burned something
into me. It was as if He placed a new heart inside of me.
His look took me on a journey, it was if I was transported to
another place, another realm in time, and when I came to,
I was changed. Who was He? Why would He come to me?
Who am I, that He should want to deposit this "love" into me?
His embrace that came only through His stare into my eyes,
transformed me for ever. Who is He? Was has He come to me?
What do you want me to do for You? How can I please You?
What is it that You want me to say to others? Have You come
so that I might lead others to You? My answer to every problem?
I love you with everything in me. Teach me how to love You
by following You, and obeying You. You are my Prince, and
I surrender.
Embracing love fills the heart
and will overflow and leak'out
to all those in our sphere.
Love can be painful when
relationships have failed,
yet our vunerability is so beautiful.
If we allow our hearts to be tender,
we can truly be compassionate to others,
identifying with them, and sharing God's love.
To deny our loving feelings for someone
makes us only half alive, as the heart
is being squashed.
Our hearts are where "life" is.
If we shut them down, we are
simply robots "going through the motions".
The human heart is what makes us
truly alive. We need to live out of
hearts, not out of our heads.
God didn't ask us for a commentary
of our lives, but to embrace it with
two hands, and run with Him!
Selah.
When the heart is tormented beyond comprehension,
lifetime dreams smashed to pieces, the dissapointement
of love taking you to the deepest hole you could ever imagine,
there is LIGHT!
There is only One who can restore the broken and devastated
heart. He intercedes for us on our behalf. His Spirit praying
for ours to come up out of the blackness, and live again.
We are made in such an extrordinary way, that miracles can
happen, by God's grace. However, there comes a time when
we must embrace the truth of our buried emmotions.
After we have been out of our trauma for a long time,
our tenderness begins to rise up, and we realize it is a new day.
It's time for healing and wholeness, and buried feelings to be felt.
Suppression is not good health, it's a denial of one's reality, and
if permitted to continue in this way, one's reality becomes
whatever they want it to be, not the truth of an accurate reality.
One needs much courage to face the pain of the past, to look in
all honesty, at the entire situation, and be willing to risk the
"not knowing". We're so afraid to travel unchartered waters, yet
this debilitating fear can paralize us.
We must follow God at all times. He will direct our paths, but
should we ignore His voice, and do our "own thing", we come
out of His divine protection, and we are truly left to fend for ourselves.
Selah.
I've discovered that there is one
thing that doesn't ever die,
and that is love.
You can move to the furthest,
most remote corner of the earth,
across galaxies, and love
will not die.
You can try to stop loving
someone, but it's only in vain.
Love is eternal. It doesn't get old
and worn out, nor dissapear.
Real love lives on, forever....
As time marches on, I am humbled by the truth
that I am completely lost without my God.
The Old Man is what I am left with, without His
grace and mercy in my life each and every day.
The Old Man is always there, lurking underneath,
looking for opportunities to rear his ugly head.
Without the wind of the Spirit in my life, I am
simply a body of flesh, with it's lusts and passions.
It is only through God's love in me, that I can love
the way He has called me to. Unconditionally.
This is the ongoing challenge. "What good is it
if I only love those who love me", Jesus said.
Ah, but through a transformation of this Old Man
into a born-again, blood washed follower of Jesus,
I can love like He loved, or I can certainly spend
the rest of my earthly life trying. This is my debt to Him.
May I strike it? The never ending attempt.
I am a giver. I can't help myself.
Because of this fact, I must go away from
others to ensure my filling up with God.
These days, I walk away from people who
are takers by nature. They suck the life
out of me.
God is love. When we live in God,
we are naturally ready to give and lavish
others with His love. God has shown me,
that I must come away with Him, and get
filled up with His love, again. I must refuel.
He has shown me that balance is the answer.
Not all "me" time, and not all "other's" time.
But time with and without people. This may
seem elementary, but living here in this city,
with my daily enviroment, and who I am in
my heart, I must learn to incorporate the two.
I am needed in certain environments to love
on others. To encourage, to listen, to show
mercy and compassion. To accept without
placing judgement, to embrace the "un-
embracable".
I am learning, I am on my God-tailored
journey. I am learing how to
actually schedule rest in my weekly calender,
this is a brand new experience for me.
Lord, thank you for working with me!
