I have finally realized that this summer has been the worst and best one of my life. Looking back at the last couple of months I can honestly say that God has left me breathless (in more ways than one).The last few weeks of my senior year of high school I wrote to God requesting that He would reveal Himself more to me than ever before.
Only a few weeks later, everything that could change did. It seemed that something went terribly wrong and once again my world was being turned upside down.
Then one day, I was reading my journal and realized something strange. God had given me exactly what I asked for. Maybe trials and hardship wasn't my idea of "getting to know God," but it was His. Just last night my mind went to Deuteronomy 4:29, "From there you will seek the LORD your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul."
I believe with all my heart that when things were hard and I reached for God with my tiny hand that He picked me up and sat me on His lap. As things became worse, He pulled me even closer.
And now I am begining to understand what the joy of the Lord is all about.
...And having Jesus--and getting to lie in His arms... is worth any amount of pain this word can give...
1 comment:
Dearest Jeran.
What joy to see that you now have a blog site and are writing out from the well of your heart!
You are a beautiful and matchless young woman of God with an endless spark of His life within you!
Keep this up, Jeran.
I love hearing your heart and I know that you will bless and touch many people's lives. You have mine.
I love you, dear heart!
Annie
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