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Writer's pictureJoni

Day 8: Running No More


As I look back over my life

I realize that I was RUNNING,

yet knowing that I was RUNNING

until

GOD caught me

and stopped me in my tracks,

because HE was the ONE who

has been chasing me

my whole life

while I was RUNNING in the other direction.

Why do we do it?

Why do we RUN from SOMEONE who

not only wants to LOVE us,

but who CREATED each one of us.

It sounds so silly

to waste so much energy

RUNNING ourselves into WEARINESS,

when

we have a GOD who

grows weary.

So what was I RUNNING from?

I wasn't necessarily RUNNING from GOD

as I was running from

myself

because

"myself" was told

that I wasn't LOVABLE.

But how do you find yourself

if you keep RUNNING from your self?

Whose voice are you listening to?

"Your own ears will hear HIM.

Right behind you a voice will say,

'This is the way you should go,'

whether to the right or to the left" (Isaiah 30:21).

I cry happy tears

because

I stopped RUNNING

the moment

JESUS caught me

and refuses to let me go.

HE RUNS with me wherever I go,

as HE takes me where I am supposed to go

when I stop RUNNING

and

STAND STILL IN HIM.

I can't do life without HIM

and you can't either.

Look to the left.

Look to the right.

"It is the LORD who goes before you. HE will be with you;

HE will not leave you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed” (Deuteronomy 31:8).

And oh how GOD means what HE says and says what HE means

or HE wouldn't have sent

JESUS

who will never ever ever

run away from you,

because HE tells us so~

"Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears MY voice and opens the door,

I will come in and eat with that person, and they with ME" (Revelation 3:20)

As HE invites all to~

"Come to ME, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest" (Matthew 11:28).

The ONE who

stops our wearisome RUNNING to

seeking LOVE from

other spaces and places

the moment we

STANDSTILL IN HIM

so that we

BLOOM in HIS LOVE

that is

ETERNALLY YOURS

because

"NO ONE EVER CARD FOR 'ME & YOU' LIKE JESUS"

(listen to the song below)


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