The other day I found something I wrote a couple months ago:
Hopes so high
Starting to be fulfilled
Completely unbelievable
Oh, such a thrill!
Suddenly, dreams shattered
Hurt so deep
Doesn't make sense
What's the purpose in this?
All I can gather,
All I can find
Is that the Lord has
A mysterious mind.
His ways are perfect,
Though they don't make sense.
All I can do is cling
To His hands.
He is drawing me
Closer
He is doing a
Work!
I love Him,
I trust Him,
But not nearly
Enough.
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It is a beautiful spring day and this morning I went for a walk. I was thinking and praying about some things. Even if the Lord never gives me what I truly desire more than anything ever in my life, I'm here to testify that I will still have Jesus! This I know to be true. Listen to this verse:
"This is a faithful saying:
For if we died with Him,
We shall also live with Him.
If we endure,
We shall also reign with Him.
If we deny Him,
He will also deny us.
If we are faithless,
He remains faithful;
He cannot deny Himself."
2 Timothy 2:11-13
I absolutely love that! If we are faithless, He remains faithful!! The Message version puts it like this: "If we give up on him, he does not give up-for there's no way he can be false to himself." This is incredible to me. I'm going to be honest and say that sometimes I have wanted to give up on him. But thank the Lord that when that when I do that, He does not give up. It simply goes against His character.
This verse has come across my radar a couple of times this week. "Just as you'll never understand the mystery of life forming in a pregnant woman, So you'll never understand the mystery at work in all that God does." Ecclesiastes 11:5 God is at work! I don't always understand it, but I believe it.
And finally, "You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You." Isaiah 26:3 I'm trying to do that, and God is keeping me in perfect peace.
