Day 2: Filled Emptiness

I want to be DIFFERENT,

because I don't want to remain

 the SAME.

For when

 JESUS

makes you

 DIFFERENT

you become a

a better version of yourself,

then you could ever try to be on your own,

so that you never want to be the SAME. 

Yet,

 I wish some things would stay

THE SAME,

so I could DEPEND on

 THE SAME

and not have to face this

 VOID

 I feel right now.

For I am entering into

the EMPTY SPACE of TRUST~

the INVISIBLE SPACE of FAITH.

But If I look at the EMPTINESS as EMPTINESS, 

I will remain

EMPTY,

with

no

HOPE

no

PEACE

no

JOY

and

no

LOVE.

It is like looking into the EMPTY TOMB,

and wishing JESUS was still there

wrapped in HIS burial clothes.

Sounds silly, but oh so true,

when we

 TRUST IN

and have

FAITH IN 

and

 DEPEND on what is SEEN and not IN what is UNSEEN.

My hubby and I just experienced a weekend,

 we will ever forget

because everywhere we went

JESUS WAS RISEN in the hearts of

our precious forever sister and brother in CHRIST,

whose home

we stayed.

They LOVE JESUS. 

To have left their home still brings tears to my being

as we have experienced ,

JESUS with skin on.

We laughed.

We cried.

We LIVED THE ABUNDANT LIFE,

for where JESUS IS

is where ABUNDANCE LIVES.

We tasted a piece of HEAVEN on earth.

We visited their church on GOOD FRIDAY

and on EASTER.

JESUS was in the HOUSE.

Every person we met,

and I am not exaggerating,

LOVED JESUS. 

It wasn't a christian-ese kind of loving

with lip service,

as you could feel their LOVE of CHRIST

spilling from through hearts,

and you could

SEE it

 from their eyes.

Their church is gigantic,

not only in size

 but filled with a

LOVE OF JESUS that is immeasurable,

as it starts with the

Pastor

whose

LOVE for JESUS

is just who he is.

We met him.

The most humble man,

with a LOVE so great for JESUS

that he makes it all about JESUS.

It is Pastor Jack Graham

from

Prestonwood Baptist Church in Dallas.

I have listened to him for years on his podcast.

He is the real deal.

Now I am not hero worshipping,

as it is because

 I LOVE 

when

 GOD places people

in your life,

whose

LOVE for JESUS ignites your FAITH,

because they are so yoked to the

SAME JESUS whom you are yoked to,

so that you get to experience

a piece of HEAVEN on earth.

And because I always thirst for more and more of JESUS, 

 when GOD GIFTS me

by placing LOVERS OF JESUS in my path

I am overwhelmed,

as I can't contain myself.

So I will sing and clap and raise my hands

and yes tears will fill my being,

HAPPY TEARS,

because

when GOD overwhelms you

you just have to cry.

I am in awe of GOD. 

GOD poured out HIS BLESSINGS upon my hubby and I this weekend.

HE used our precious new family friends.

HE used their precious friends.

HE used their church.

HE used the Pastor.

HE used the precious woman who sat behind us at the

GOOD FRIDAY service,

who was so in LOVE with JESUS 

that she couldn't contain herself.

Oh THE TOMB IS EMPTY,

because

JESUS IS HERE.

Look to your left.

Look to your right.

HE IS HERE.

So in this dead space that I am feeling,

because I have entered

 into a day filled with the quietness of the unknowns of the day,

wishing I could turn back the clock to this weekend,

 GOD taps me on the shoulder

to LOOK at HIM

telling me that HE IS THE SAME

wherever I am,

and that HE is always sending

 LOVERS OF JESUS

with skin on into my life

and that

HE has so much more for me,

IMMEASURABLY MORE~

"Now to HIM who is able to [carry out His purpose and] do superabundantly more than all that we dare ask or think [infinitely beyond our greatest prayers, hopes, or dreams], according to HIS power that is at work within us, to HIM be the glory in the church and in CHRIST Jesus throughout all generations forever and ever. Amen" (Ephesians 3:20-21).

But didn't HE do IMMEASURABLY MORE

the moment

JESUS ROSE from the DEAD.

Oh that was just the beginning,

because JESUS doesn't stop being JESUS. 

JESUS doesn't stop taking you to spaces and places in your heart

for where HE wants to OVERWHELM you with

MORE OF HIM.

GREAT IS HIS FAITHFULNESS,

for right now we all have MORE than we deserve,

because

JESUS ROSE

and HE never stops

RISING in your heart,

filling in every empty nook and crany

with MORE OF HIM.

Where is JESUS?

EVERYWHERE.

HE is SEEN by FAITH~

"But without faith it is impossible to [walk with GOD and] please HIM, for whoever comes [near] to GOD must [necessarily] believe that GOD exists and that

HE rewards those who [earnestly and diligently] seek HIM"

(Hebrews 11:6).

So this morning,

in this emptiness that I feel,

I look into the

EMPTY TOMB,

and I am no longer EMPTY,

and either is my day

because

JESUS is here in this place.

HE HAS RISEN.

So as I anticipate my hubby waking up,

he will greet me with a smile

and also

JESUS,

as he is a man who

 bleeds the LOVE OF JESUS.

So THANK YOU GOD

for

"YOU are here,

moving in our midst.

I worship YOU"

(Way Maker, listen to song below)