I wrote this off the cuff this weekend to encourage an incredible friend of mine. A true brother in Christ. A warrior in life. For someone reason, I feel someone else needs to hear this. To know this. To recognize and accept this. To acknowledge that you are remarkable in the eyes of the Creator of all things and the truth is this: He is all that matters. Shalom.
“God has placed so clearly on my heart the need for only him. The need to deny the “what ifs” and replace them with the “he decrees” truths.
We so desperately seek the acceptance of the equally broken, to the extent we will alter the personality and unique person that God has created us to be. We buy in to the lies of materialism and want because that’s what is acceptable and expected.
We are the vessels of the God whose Son came and denied all of the accepted conventions of the day. Why should today be different? We are chosen to stand out from the mob with lives that deny convention rather than align with convention. We are his and He is ours. That is all that matters.
A heartbreaking truth is that oftentimes our most loved ones cannot walk with us. They are not where we are…yet. It is a very difficult reality that we are often not walking-in step with those closest to us. Our journeys are individual, yet our choice of destination the same. Heaven or Hell. We each choose ultimately.
I am believing with all certainty that every doubt, every regret, every desire to ‘do over’ are the variables of Satan’s destructive equation designed to create life’s of desperation and discontent. How egotistical to think that simple things happening in our simple lives happen without God’s knowing and allowing. We allow our children to try things that are destined to fail and oftentimes cause temporal pain. Why? Because in this is where the learning, the developing, the character building, to ‘next’ occurs. Why would we assume differently of the Maker of all things?
I encourage you to stay the course. Surrender the mourning. Accept the joy of truth of direction delivered through a life of experience…including success and failure.
You’re having your greatest impact now. Your actions are being seen and acknowledged; possibly being acknowledged with anger, contempt and resentment, but being acknowledged. We all must pave our path. How we choose to do this determines the joy and impact that lies in future. Isn’t it interesting that the word ‘lies’ can denote brokenness and desperation or anticipation and expectation. Our choice.”
“Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen” Ephesians 3:20-21 NKJ