TRUST

Learning to trust God in every aspect of our lives can be a difficult lesson. I have tried to always allow Him to be in control of my life but many times, He has had to show me where I still hold onto things that He wants me to let go of. I've prayed for so long for God to be glorified in my life in everything that I say and do. He asks us to lay down our lives for Him, to be crucified as Christ and to die to ourselves. He sometimes requires us to lose the most precious thing that we hold in our hearts. I know this first hand, He has allowed me to lose the most precious things in my life, and through the loss, I have grown to trust Him so much more deeply than ever before. Because, you see, everything is His. Nothing belongs to us. Not our family members, our possessions, our money. It is all His.

There is such sweet freedom in surrender. When we lay all that we have down on the altar, He blesses us with so much more than we could have ever imagined. Maybe not in the ways the world would think would bring happiness but His ways are so much sweeter. He brings us such joy and peace into our hearts that nothing in this world can ever compare to. His ways are not our ways. He tells us to look to the things that are unseen, not to the things that we can see. This world brings such false happiness. Success in the worlds eyes can not even begin to bring happiness. It is such a fleeting thing. The worldly things can never fufill us.

When we truly experience a relationship with the Living God of the universe, we can have a life filled with peace, joy and love. We can taste the love of God and through the blood of Jesus Christ, we can be forgiven. Once we fall in love with Jesus and love Him with our heart, soul and mind then we can love others like He first loved us. Without the love of Christ, we can never love anyone with the kind of love that they deserve and need. Therefore, we must seek to love God with everything we have. Then, we must love our brothers and sisters as He loved us. Sounds so simple, doesn't it? Christ's message was LOVE. When we figure that out, we can learn to live a life pleasing to Him. If we love Christ, we will desire to obey Him. We won't obey out of fear but out of the deepest love for Him. He died on a cross and bore our sins. He sacrificed everything to pardon our sins. How can we not spend our days loving Him and bringing Him glory and honor. We have been given the greatest gift of all and we should want to share that love with everyone we possibly could reach. He is the way to life!

Shine, bright....let His light be seen in your life. He is the WAY, the TRUTH, and the LIFE! Let other's see His love shining through you. When they see the love of Christ in us, they will be drawn to Him. The Holy Spirit will tug on their heart strings until they are hungry for Him. Let us be the one's to lead them to the cross. Everyone needs compassion, everyone needs forgiveness. Help us, Lord to have a heart like Yours. Help us to hurt for your people enough to bring them to You! Help us to love like You love....help us be the hope to the hopeless, the help to the hurting, the peace to the broken. Help us spread your love...You are the author of SALVATION, You conquered the grave. You are RISEN! You offer LIFE EVERLASTING!
You set the captives free! You can move the mountains! You are MIGHTY, HOLY, WORTHY OF ALL OF OUR PRAISE!