Imagine for a moment...

     Imagine for a moment, that you’re living a life that’s not your own. It’s a boring life. There is no real point to your existence. Every day goes on just like the ones before it. Again and again you try with no avail to bring happiness, contentment, excitement, passion, joy, feeling, anything into this life you lead, yet time and time again it all feels futile. No matter how hard you try to change, the outcome is inevitable, stuck in a never ending cycle. You don’t feel like fighting it anymore, because every time you do, you come out on the losing end. You barely feel anymore, all that’s left to your life is emptiness. 

     Now imagine for a moment, that in this same life, this same empty existence, that you meet someone. This person turns your whole world upside down. It’s the introduction of a lifetime. Soon after you meet Him you find yourself unable to think of anything but Him. He makes you want to change the way you speak, the way you think, the things you do. Not only is He constantly on your mind, but everyone, everything, falls into the background as you become completely consumed with Him. For the first time in your life, you feel everything you’ve ever wanted to, with just a glimpse of Him. You can’t stop smiling; nothing can kill the joy inside of you. You’re completely head over heels in love with this guy and He’s changed your life.

     But that’s not all. You want to show Him off. You want your family and friends to see the reason for your passion, the reason for your excitement.  You want them to meet the love of your life. You want them to know Him. You want them to see the way you look at Him, and they way He looks at you. You want them to overhear the inside jokes He whispers in your ear. You want them to understand why you’re so crazy in love with Him. You want them to see His beauty, because you know that’s all they’ll ever need. It was all you ever needed.

     Can you see yourself in this life? Happy, content, changed. All because of one person who made you become who you always wished to be. Can you feel the growing desire to bring Him home to meet the ones you love? Now imagine, for that last time, that your family and friends refuse to meet Him. You want nothing more than to tell them of His perfection, of all the things He has done for you, but they don’t want to hear it. Not only do they refuse to give Him credit for all the changes in your life, but they don’t even want you to speak of Him. You have finally found the love you have been waiting for your whole life, and they don’t even believe He exists.

     This post is to all those people out there that I love and yet refuse to believe. He is real, He is why I breathe, He is the reason I’m alive, and no matter how many times you tell yourself that the one who stole my heart is all in my mind, in that same moment that you doubt, He is calling you. Though you two have never met, He knows your name, He knows what makes you smile, He knows what makes you cry, He knows you because He created you, and He is calling you to be His child. He changed my life, and all He wants is to be able to change yours too. Just listen…

In His Arms,

<3 D

Matthew 14:28-29

 "Lord, if it's You," Peter replied, "tell me to come to You on the water."

"Come," He said.

Then Peter got down out of the boat,

walked on the water

and came towards Jesus.

In His Arms,

<3 D

Being Weak...

 
     I am praying God will give me a lot of grace with this post, because I know exactly what I want to say...I'm just not quite sure how to say it.

     Do you ever feel discouraged? Do you ever try really hard to do the "right thing," but you don't understand why it's so hard? Do you ever feel alone? Do you ever find yourself trying to do something that you are sure God will be proud of, yet you find yourself struggling? Do you ever feel weak?

     The truth is most of us go to great lengths to disguised our weaknesses. We try and prove that we're strong, that we can handle anything that gets thrown our way...(don't even try to pretend this doesn't apply to you. We all do it.)

     During the past week, I felt very incapable. Very weak. Like I couldn't do anything right. I didn't understand why I thought I was on track with God, yet things were still hard. I felt discouraged. I felt weak. Last night my (heavenly) Daddy gave me answers to why this was. (He is kind of perfect like that.) Through a book, he gave me these words: "Trying to live the Christian life out of your own power is ridiculous. Why would a person do that? Why would you walk when you can ride? Being filled with the power of the (Holy) Spirit begins with an honest acknowledgement of our own weakness."

     After receiving God into your life, the next best gift He gives us is His Holy Spirit. I believe once you have surrendered your life to Him, you are given access to the Holy Spirit, all you have to do is..well, access it. :) This is what the Bible has to say about it:

• 2 Cor. 12:9-10 "I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weakness...For when I am weak, then I am strong."

That was exactly what I was missing... 

• Acts 1:8 "You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you..."

All you have to do is ask for it. And with His Spirit comes amazing grace (to do the hard things,) and this, this perfect unexplainable peace. (Apparently, "unexplainable" is not a word-says my computer.)

• Gal. 3:3 "Are you so foolish? After beginning with the Spirit, are you now trying to obtain your goal by human effort?" 

Enough said? I think so. Well, one of my many weaknesses is my lack of writing talent, so I hope you picked up what I was attempting to put down. :) Blessings!

In His Arms,

<3 D