There is a great SADNESS that is covering the world,
because there are great things that are happening
that are covering the world.
The destructive power of a hurricane,
that is out of CONTROL,
and will do what it does best,
by doing what it will do
when it does it,
effecting millions upon millions
innocent households.
It CHANGES lives,
as it washes away
LIVES.
There is a great SADNESS that is covering the world,
BUT there are great things that are happening
that are covering the world,
because of a GREAT GOD
who never stops being GREAT
even though some of things HAPPENING are not so GREAT.
As we are told,
"Consider it nothing but joy,
my brothers and sisters,
whenever you fall into various trials.
Be assured that the testing of your faith
[through experience]
produces endurance
[leading to spiritual maturity, and inner peace].
And let endurance have its perfect result and do a thorough work, so that you may be perfect and completely developed [in your faith], lacking in nothing"
Oh the TRIALS of life
that have the power to strip LIFE from you,
to close the door on what was
that
opens a door what is.
A NEW START to begin again,
to pick up the pieces of what is left.
And what do you have left when all is gone.
YOU.
YOU are GOD'S PRECIOUS POSSESSION,
who HE PROMISES
to never leave you
or
forsake you.
HE dries your TEARS.
HE hugs your HEART.
HE fills in the gaps where
LIFE used to be and is now no longer.
HE does the POSSIBLE in the IMPOSSIBLE.
When everything goes dark
and you can't even imagine if you will ever see light again,
you see a flicker.
A flicker of HOPE.
A flicker of JOY.
A flicker of PEACE.
Despite the dark.
Because there
HE IS.
Dressed as JESUS.
JESUS always was JESUS
even when the world went DARK
for three days,
when the PROMISED SAVIOR
laid dead in a tomb.
The HOPE in so many souls died when JESUS died,
because what now?
Did they all forget HIS PROMISE
that HE would RISE from the dead?
Did they forget HIS WORDS
that have never changed?
"For GOD so loved the world that
HE gave HIS one and only SON, that whoever
believes in HIM shall not perish
but have eternal life"
(John 3:16).
ETERNAL LIFE,
a LIFE that exists beyond
the GREAT SADNESS of LIFE
that we all experience from time to time in this LIFE.
But when FAITH becomes your eyesight,
it beams LIGHT into the spaces and places in
your hurting heart,
because that is where JESUS is sitting.
HE never leaves you or forsakes you.
HE is the LIGHT that never goes out,
even when darkness may enter into your LIFE.
I am not minimizing the grief that enters into your heart
through the losses of life,
as I hate loss.
But is through those LOSSES
where GOD WINS.
HE shows up with HIS SON and HIS HOLY SPIRIT.
And before you know
you are ENLIGHTENED
with
A NEW PEACE
&
A NEW HOPE
&
A NEW JOY
that you never BELIEVED was possible,
because of
HIS GREAT LOVE
that never ceases.
For
"The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; HIS mercies never come to an end;
they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness"
( Lamentations 3:22-23).
So wherever your HEART is on this early morning,
will you embrace the LOVE of GOD
that will hug your HEART
whatever you may be feeling or not feeling.
For HIS HUG takes you beyond this life into a
FOREVER
that is here for you.
For
"GREAT IS YOUR FAITHFULNESS"
(listen to the song below)
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