There are moments in life when everything comes rushing in all at the same time.
Sometimes it feels like I am in the sea, waves crashing against me one after the other. When I begin to look around at everything that is going on around me, it can take my breath away. The waves are never ending. It is when I focus my eyes on Jesus that I realize that I have breath and can keep my head above the waves.
There comes a time in life, after all these things collide, that one must just be. Breathe. Relax. Rest in the arms of Jesus. The Lord reveals himself in so many ways. It can be easy to get caught up in our selfishness that each of us are born in. This is so easy to do especially when unfair things happen in life: betrayal, death, lies, sickness, disrespect, slander and rejection. Have not all of us been touched by this in some way?
A life with Jesus finds the joy amidst such things. A heart for Jesus, says, “I will endure anything just to be more like you, just to be able to spend time in your presence everyday.” It is this desire that fuels every breath I take. It helps me to sleep well at night and roll out of bed each morning to go pour out my life everyday.
There is nothing better than to know just how much God is for you, just how much he loves you!
He shows me who I am constantly. When waves come my way in order to make me believe a lie and allow myself to become defeated, he shows me that he has prepared me for such a time. Life is so much more than just flesh and blood. There is a battle raging. It rages like the seas.
Who do you say that you are, reader? Are you prepared for death? Are you prepared to endure hardship just so that others may know that God is love; that he pursues them on a daily basis? Are you ready to be in battle everyday, no matter how tired that you are, just so that God can use you to bring others into his light and furious love? He wants to become more a part of your life. He desires you. He loves quality time. And as you are on the battlefield he is there showing you how amazing he is by the things he does through you.
Life with Jesus is a grand adventure. If you think otherwise then I challenge you to spend more quality time with God through prayer and studying his word. The more that he becomes more and you become less, a new life unfolds. You will be able to pray for people, and help people in ways that are beyond your human ability to help. You can have strength to face your greatest fears. In all of these experiences you will become more interwoven with Gods heart. Through every joy and trial, through every mountain in your path, you will be swept up in awe at Gods glory, power, omnipotence, grace, and love.
He is a good God. His love is always there. When the arms of those you love can no longer hold you, his will always be there to sweep you up to be close enough to hear his heartbeat. Such peace.
Plumbs newest album has a song called “Smoke”. The Chorus speaks what my heart says during this time in my life. So many things have ended. So many things have felt like they went up in smoke, forcing me to let go.
Chorus:
“You are my hope
You are my song
You are the oxygen inside these weary lungs
You are my safe place
You are my home
You are my shelter when it all goes up in smoke”
And the bridge says,
“My healer
Provider
You are my God
Protector
My strength and shield
You are my God”
Through it all, God is so good. I will declare who he is no matter how hard things might get. He never changes. Therefore, he is always good and his love and power rage on despite the waves that may be crashing in your life.
Psalm 18:1-3 (ESV)
I love you, O Lord, my strength.
2 The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer,
my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge,
my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
3 I call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised,
and I am saved from my enemies.
LL&CB 
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