Walking It Out

No matter what you've done. No matter what you are doing.  No matter what you will do God loves you.  He sacrificed his son knowing the worst of possible things people would do.  Meditate on that, think of the worst possible offense or a person or people that did a bunch of horrendous things.  He wanted a relationship with them.  Not only that he loved them enough to put all of their offenses on Christ, who was pure and innocent, and he paid for all of that on the cross. He grieves when his children don't choose him and choose to be separate from him.  God's perfect love is perfect freedom.  He always gives you the choice to choose.  Good or bad, but either way you're stuck with the consequences of those choices. I know it's so hard to fathom but even if you deny God, he's waiting to welcome you.  He wants you to be his.  He wants nothing but good for you.  All good and wonderful things come from God.  The enemy work...

Truth be told I've been in almost a perpetual state of exhaustion these past 6 months or so.  It is quite literally a battle for me each day to keep my eyes on Jesus.  Day by day I can see how he's working on me though.  I can see how he's working on my children.  I can see how he's working in my marriage.  This time that I'm spending away from friends and family has been perfectly orchestrated by our sovereign God.  Sometimes we need to be pulled away from it all to regain our focus. Sometimes our comforts need to be taken to strengthen our foundation, our character. With each day that I remember to seek him, the more he strengthens me.  Once again he blows me away with his intricate plans and provision for me.  I am completely undeserving, yet he blesses me anyways.  I continually fall short by giving in to sin in various ways: self-contentedness, greed, resentment and hatred, desiring to give into pleasure seeking activities and I'...