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YOUR Love Never Fails...

9/29/2019

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Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first.
~Revelation 2:4

I've struggled for years with the true meaning of love.  The definition of it.  The feel of it.  The truth of it and mostly the longevity of it.  I know what lust is.  I know what a season of love is.  I know what it is to love a boyfriend, a lover, and I know what it is to love a husband. I know what it's like to love a child.  I know what it's like to love a parent, I know what it's like to have the love of a parent withheld.  I know and understand what it is like to find love and to lose love.  I'm sure you do too.  I know what it's like to be betrayed in love, to betray love, and to trust in a temporary love only to find it was based on temporary motives.  I know what it's like to want to be desired, to desire and to long for acceptance.  And...I know what's it's like to do all the things necessary to try to achieve it.  Most of them very unhealthy.

Lately, I've struggled with many of these things for one reason or another.  Doubts, anxiety, separations, ruined relationships, envy of others, fear of rejection, unworthiness.  Getting ready to be an empty nester and all that goes with letting go of a child who at one time depended on their Momma, and now seemingly has no need, as they sprout wings and prepare to fly...

Purpose...

I received an email from a very prominent person in my workplace this week.   Someone I admire very much, honoring me for my efforts and love of my job.  I printed it out, saved it, and cherished every.single.word.  I was so thankful to hear the words spoken over me.  Words I longed to hear in my efforts of being the ultimate people pleaser.  I fall for words quickly and easily and are as equally easy to be completely crushed by words of those that are not as gracious to provide encouragement, but instead condemnation.   I also tend to be lifted up and carried away by words of love...yet in the same breath, know how quickly the wind takes those words away as well.  I find it interesting that I don't fall so easily for the words Christ speaks over me.  The words that would make a true impact, the words that change circumstances, heals lives, and saves us from wrong paths.

I truly believe these are the reason that I'm absolutely overwhelmed by Christ.  The love I've grown to believe in, and depend on through Him is not fickle.  It surpasses any other love I've ever known.  Unlike an unfaithful spouse, God's love is not disloyal or unfaithful.  Unlike a friendship it is not unpredictable or dependent on feelings or actions.   Unlike a child about to leave the nest, and fly on it's own independence, it is not impulsive.  Unlike the world, it is not faithless.  Unlike an absent father, it is not undependable or unpredictable.  Unlike a random lover, it is not, unstable, unsteady, or erratic.  God's love is true, not dependent on performance, failures, or disappointments.  It's instruction is to provide freedom, safety, and a place in eternity with Him. 

Oh the joy in finding and discovering a life of love, true love and the contentment that love would provide....The opportunity to walk in the garden once again in direct relationship with the One who loved us first...would be worth it all...including all the artificial counterfeits of the world.

I think it's worth seeking.


We love because HE first loved us.
~ 1 John 4:19



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Do Not Forget This ONE Thing

9/15/2019

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But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.  ~2 Peter 3:8  (NKJV)

I can't help but remember several years ago sitting in church and getting a vision of a white ribbon being wrapped around my heart.  It reminded me of like a crisp clean sanitary bandage being wrapped around a gaping bleeding and exposed wound.  I remember knowing that the white ribbon felt to me like a representation of Christ and that my heart was a representation of the brokenness I felt in my life at that very moment.  I remember thinking that God was about to heal my heart from a very open and gaping wound in my life.  I remember "knowing" specifically it was about ONE major event in my life and knowing that that ONE thing was going to be instantly healed....because I had a "God Moment", and when God Moments happen instantaneous healing follows...

Fast forward several years and several very desperately needed "God Moments" later and I can tell you that "instantaneous healing" was more, way more than just that ONE situation.  It was also very far from instantaneous, it was a series of test after test after test, intended for a bigger purpose...to build the character of Christ in me and for me and for the purpose of His kingdom.

You see, if that healing would have ended for me for that ONE specific moment  in time and for that time only, I would have never sustained the many other heartbreaks that occurred, or reoccurred over and over again.  The world is full of intentional and unintentional hurts.  Life is made up of a million choices each day, a million opportunities to react, a million challenges to overcome.  Alone, we are victims to those circumstances, yet with Christ we are victors.

Several times between the wrapping of my heart and today, I made several choices for and not for my walk with Christ. There were times I chose to separate from my church family, I chose several times to isolate in my wounded state, I also chose to take up several offenses.  All this after I gave my life to Christ and was truly walking with Him.  Just because we give our lives for Christ, doesn't mean we are instantaneously perfect like Him.  We continually have to grow, to study, to read the Word, and to learn how to not allow our interpretations through our lenses of our own experiences, taint the Truth of His Word.

Today I smiled and poured out my thankfulness to Him for continually healing me, as he will you, as if one day were a thousand and a thousand were like one day.

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Why Are You Standing Here Looking Into the Sky?

9/8/2019

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I'm not really certain what happened. Maybe it was the need to be back in the presence of people worshiping Christ.  Maybe it was getting my sights back on something that truly mattered, or perhaps it was the Holy Spirit working His stuff in among hearts that were open to what He was about to do, but all of a sudden my tears began to fall.  I began to weep, and the flood gates of emotions, while trying to get out the words "how great is our God", overwhelmed me to the core.  I wasn't sad, there wasn't anything I had been stuffing down, I wasn't harboring unforgiveness over anything I was aware of.  I just could not stop the tears in thinking how absolutely wonderful God is.  My son and husband looked at me and I said, I don't know what's going on....

Transitioning to a Holy Spirit message from our Pastor about how without downplaying any circumstance, we needed to stop focusing on our "issues" and instead look up and focus on Christ, so we were in a position to actually do something constructive with our circumstance.  By choice, we could work at a resolve through Christ instead of simply pitching a tent and piling on the wood and adding gasoline to fuel the fire of our pity party that we wanted to sit and gaze at.

Testimonies provided later would confirm to me that the Holy Spirit was moving during the service, in which, I'm certain He does more often that we provide Him credit.  Peggy shared that she had some heartbreaking situations take her over during the weekend and when I walked by her to get a tissue for my floodgate of tears, the Spirit, seemed to fall on her and she received some needed healing for her heart.  Marne shared that she could tell that my tears were Holy Spirit inspired and it sparked a fire to worship more deeply than a casual service.

Not bad for some "I don't know why I'm crying" moments...

Yet their was more, as there always is. 

We seem to live in a world where status is important to most.  We have to live to impress, we have to be perfect in the eyes of all those watching, and we have no tolerance towards others who are less fortunate that we perceive we are.  We like to go to church on Sundays so others can identify us as "good", but being careful not to actually live the walk out during the rest of the week, lest someone might say we are not "cool", or even worse, that we might be a religious fanatic. 

But here I was in a group of people that truly believed that Jesus did what He did, said what He said and commanded what He commanded, not because we are confined to some sort of religious rules, but instead the answers to living a fulfilled life under any circumstance.  I love these people, far from perfect, far from flawless, far from "have it all together" but most certainly focused on and living for Christ.

I have been provided the delicate opportunity and extremely important task to teach our youth on occasion.   This week it was my opportunity to invest in these amazing youth in Christ.  I'm telling you, it's truly my honor, as this young generation of world leaders are ready to tackle the lies of the enemy.  They are always engaged in thought, even in the midst of their multitasking ability to be laughing about "farting" and at the same time be engaged in a deep conversation about Christ.  Worldly distraction hasn't taken control of this ability and gifting in them.  I learn more from them than they do from me and I smirk every time they ask if "I'm teaching them".... learning is clearly more accurate.

If you haven't clued in to my inspiration by the title of my blog, I live for "God Moments".  Today was no exception.  In youth bible class, I typically start off with a fun story ~ todays was about a Teddy Bear that traveled the world in a unique way.  After the icebreaker inspirational story we break open in study of the word of God.  I usually pick a chapter of two, we take turns reading and when we are done each student, and yes, each student, engages in what their "take away" was.  They ALL participate, and they all have amazing take aways.  Today's God Moment however, hands down, went to Ashley.  Her favorite part of Acts Chapter 1 was verse 11 that speaks about the apostles standing there looking up to Christ.  Her "insight" or God moment reveal was that Jesus told the disciples that he would be ascending and then would return.  Yet, she recalled, they must not have been listening, because now that it was happening, they seemed like they forgot they were already told.

We are like that too, aren't we?  We go about our lives, some of us reading the word of God, sometimes even studying it.  Maybe we've hung our hats on a few selected verses, or maybe we attend a few church services, until one day, we find ourselves looking up, wishing we would have spent more time actually living for Christ instead of just dabbling in it.  Or perhaps we find ourselves fire gazing at our pity party of circumstances and realize, we simply need to look up for our answers.

Acts 1:11
They said, "Men of Galilee, why are you standing here looking into the sky?  Jesus, whom you saw taken up from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you saw him go.
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