Why God Hasn’t Given Up On You. UNITE Linky

“I haven’t given up on you.” Bible turns covering the porch of all my hopes.  Prayer just finished.  Heart begging for what only God and I know…

Those secrets nobody sees.

And sometimes there’s secrets.  Secrets only you and God hide inside the core of your chest.  Planted in infancy, born through trials, come to life through nothing short of faith and the miracle of how God uses broken vessels for His good and faithful purposes.

And I am not going to lie…faith has been in wanting lately.  Diagnosis. Schooling difficulties. Little flecks of situations piling upon piles to drive us to the very depths of where we were created from.

Dust.

But then His Spirit calls deep unto us.  And He says, “He has made us alive, spirit beings…not just fresh and bone.”

In Him, our faith can be bold. “His yoke is easy, His burden is light” He reminds us over and over again.  And my God says, “in this world you will have troubles, but fear not, for I have overcome all of your difficulties.”

So, why do we worry?  Why do we doubt?

I lay these giants at the feet of Jesus. Will you lay yours down too? Regardless of this list of reasons of why she shouldn’t be used…

And some think, if we strive hard enough, try to live “doing” good works…we will somehow reach harmony and perfect nirvana with the God of all Creation.  But, take my life, make a list….and my good deeds could never outweigh my sins…

And a scale-less God….that’s who He is.  A God who doesn’t part the seas simply because we have done everything He has ever asks.  He is the God of Rahab, the prostitute, the God of Mary Magdeline who turned from all she did to follow God despite her sins…

So friends, today, do you have a dream?  Do you have a deeply seeded hope that hides entrenched within where nobody sees?

Well, God knows.  He sees.  He says your “good” could never repay for the death He died and the hope He gives…

It is only His blood that washes away our sins.  And the good work He started?  Trust Him alone to finish it…

So, we can rejoice…this life of “try hard” can be crucified with Him.  The life of “works” and “duty” and living life of purpose to repay a God that loves us is meaningless and can be turned to a love that delights only to please Him.

For doesn’t scripture tell us, God chose to die for us…while we were still full-blown sinners? 

For freedom He has set us free.   And friends, today, I think it would glorify God most if we lived free for Him indeed.  Laying our list of worries, and doubts, and fears, and difficulties humbly at His feet.

Because I have a dream.  A dream confirmed over and over again in my heart of hearts where no one sees.  And my guess is…you have one too.

How about together we trusted God, rise up in faith, believing that regardless of what we have done…God hasn’t given up on us yet….

And we can and will walk out in faith the journey He has set before us.

And I bet, if you quieted your spirit.  Stopped right now.  Silenced everything around you…

The same God who rose Christ from the dead, the same Spirit that lives in us because of the blood that Jesus shed…would call to you in your heart of hearts…would draw you in hope, and faith, and with encouragement….

He would whisper to you too somewhere where heaven meets earth, deep where divine dreams are birthed…there, in the soil of our souls…

He too calls you out of love….And it doesn’t matter what you have done or where you have been….

“I haven’t given up on you yet”.

Today was another one of those posts.  The ones where I have something else written, but God burdens me with a fresh concept I feel He wants me to write.  With this blog dedicated to His wil land His purposes….I pray this touched someone and spoke to people in a way that my own words couldn’t.