Love is Real. Redemption is Real. God is Real.

    Pray for the hurting and broken. They hide behind their dark clothes, music, makeup and masks. They hide in our everyday lives. They hide within our own families. They hide behind hostile eyes. Behind lies. Behind smiles. But they want to be FOUND, they want to be SAVED, they need YOU to be the one to care enough to bring them to God and His Love and peace. There is hope. Rescue is real. Don't lose faith. You are 'fearfully and wonderfully made'. 

   You are beautiful. You can be saved. You are offered His Grace.  "In you, O LORD, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame. Rescue me and deliver me in your righteousness; turn your ear to me and save me. Be my rock of refuge, to which I can always go; give the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress."  Psalm 71:1-3.

    "For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness our sins." Colossians 1:13-1

God’s Glory can shine through

           

 

“Let no man despise your youth; but be you an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.” ~1st Timothy 4:12 AKJV. You are never too young, weak, broken, or lost that God can't use you for His Glory. He will always take you into His sheltering arms if you seek Him.

What Matters

What happened and happens with our bodies will one day be meaningless. We will no longer bear these scars. Whether we have been abused by ourselves, or others.

 

Our bodies are called to be the temple of the Lord, but we all fail in one way or another, by our doing or someone else’s, to defile this temple. If we've in our flesh have been beaten, stolen, taken, given, marred, one day these things will cease to exist.

 

All the pain and guilt. All the lies and hate. Everything that hurt us. Everyone that hurt us. Including our own choices.

 

Drugs, sex, alcohol, abuse, all these horrible yet real things… Family members we are forced to share blood with, yet who we would rather not share a continent with. People who promised love. Yet left us broken. Choices we made. Choices, we only wish we could take back.

 

None of it will bear consequence, not in the next world.

 

Not when He returns.

 

"And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away." Rev. 21:4

 

It is only those that we willingly shared our heart, spirit and soul with who we shall hold dear, and who shall matter. These are the ones we are bound to. Not the flesh, but the spirit. Including God Himself.  Anyone, that we shared true love with, love that forgives, love that prevails. They effected our heart, spirit and soul. And that is all that matters.

 

Because, one day, those will be all we have left of our time on this earth. ♥

Where are you?

We see the news. We see this chaos.

But the wars displayed on the flat-screen are only a fraction of the battles fought every day, battles of the heart and mind, battles in the home, in relationships, battles that are endlessly raging in everyone we meet. Where are we in the midst of this hatred and horror? Are we part of the problem… or the solution? How is it we can go our whole day, with nothing on our minds other than our own selfish schedule, and still dare to call ourselves Christians – reflections of the Lord God Himself?

The seemingly hostile eyes we didn’t meet, the mumbled hello’s we didn’t answer, the search for a friendly face amidst the condemning, lofty glares of others that we didn’t fulfill, the subtle cry for help that we either ignored or didn’t care enough to look for hidden within the slowly spoken sentence, out-of-character text, or the ‘lyrics’ on a friend’s facebook post …. Every little decision we make has consequences, not only in our life, but in the lives of the people we interact with. Someone today needed you to be the one to remind them of Joy and Hope in the world. Someone needed to know another human being, facing the same battles they do, had cared enough to listen. People testify to being saved from suicide by some random person asking how they were doing, and then listening without judging when they answered more than the lie (or truth, if you get what I mean) in saying “I’m fine.”

I challenge you, on behalf of our Lord, and His divine Love, to show someone happiness. To be that Light they so desperately need. Give them YOUR Time, Love, and Effort, and in doing so, you will begin to open up their hearts to HIS LOVE. 

By being this Light, by being this Love, you not only allow His Presence into the people and situations that surround you, but in your own heart, and your own life as well.