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Writer's pictureJoni

Day 7: Don't Quit


"Why me GOD"

is a question I ask

when I don't like what is not going on in my life.

And I think GOD just chuckles and says

"Why not you?".

Do I think myself so far above everyone else

that I don't want to suffer

when I don't have what I want when I want it.

Oh how PRIDE bites you when you least expect it,

because GOD won't let you stay there

as HUMILITY

overwhelms you

as it is a great reminder

that I CHOSE to FOLLOW JESUS.

CHOICE has brought me to this place

and I could leave at any moment,

because GOD is so GRACIOUS

that HE doesn't force anyone to

BELIEVE IN HIM

or to

BELIEVE IN HIS SON.

So why do I get on my soap box

that I BELIEVE I deserve everything to go the way I want it,

because I am FOLLOWING JESUS?

Hmm.

How quickly I forget

that I made the LIFE SAVING CHOICE

to FOLLOW JESUS

and yes it comes with a price.

A beautiful price.

My LIFE for HIS LIFE.

Does it get lonely at times?

Oh yes.

Does it hurt at times?

Oh yes.

I gave my life to JESUS

because I love JESUS more than my own life

and yes it comes with a price.

The PRICE OF LIFE.

My LIFE for HIS.

ETERNALLY SEALED IN HIM.

JESUS takes my SIN and I get to wear

FORGIVENESS

that I don't deserve,

but get to wear it anyway.

Oh the PRICE of FORGIVENESS

that bled on a cross.

So when I start to feel my bleeding heart ache

because of my CHOICE to FOLLOW JESUS

I am reminded that it is my CHOICE

because I NEED JESUS

and

because everyone NEEDS JESUS.

What if EVERYONE FOLLOWED JESUS?

Oh relationships would be restored.

Love would be in the air

because

HIS PEACE would fill everyone.

So this morning as I was awaken with great sorrow on my heart,

I do what I always do

and just sit with GOD

and open my heart to HIM,

in my weariness,

but then I hear HIS soft whisper

encouraging me~

"Therefore ________* (PUT YOUR NAME)

do not lose heart. Though outwardly ________ you are wasting away, yet inwardly _________ you are being renewed day by day.

For your light and momentary troubles are achieving for you, __________ an eternal glory that far outweighs them all...."

Oh GOD understands when I strive to make sense of what doesn't make sense.

And then my ABBA FATHER

wipes my tears

and takes me under HIS wing

and reminds me that I am just a

little girl,

but not an ordinary little girl

because I am HIS little girl

because of my CHOICE

to PUT HIM IN MY STORY.

So HE picks me up from my pity party

and I continue to walk out my CHOICE to FOLLOW the ONE whose LIFE is mine~

"...So __________*, fix your eyes not on what is seen,

but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal"

(2 Corinthians 4:16-18)

And I won't quit

"LOVING MY JESUS"

and wanting everyone to be

"LOVING MY JESUS" (listen to the song below)

because HE never stops LOVING ME.








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