FORGETTING I'M NOT WALKING ALONE
The feeling you get after reaching the top is fulfilling yet exhausting. "I made it," you say to your self. The task is delightful and encouraging when you allow people to walk alongside you. Yet, when climbing alone it can be exhausting, painful, slow, and discouraging.
Mountain's are never ending in my life. Probably yours too! Why? Because if you choose to follow Jesus; He doesn't promised an easy life but salvation, growth and an eternal home. One of my favorite scriptures is James 2:2-4 which says, "Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything." Mountains will come into my life and I must climb, I must be tested, because through the testing of my faith I produce perseverance. Perseverance to serve the Lord! Perseverance to continue climbing! Perseverance to finish the race strong!
But... I easily find myself doing things on my own. Asking for help is out of the question. You know what I'm talking about, I'm sure you do it too! We all journey the road of faith and we easily find ourselves doing things alone, to prideful to ask for help, for prayer, for accountability, for grace, for love, for mercy, for kindness, for understanding, for wisdom.
The mountain that I've been climbing recently is a feeling of walking alone and feeling unloved by God. I know that Satan and his demons have been tempting me to think that I am alone and that God doesn't love me. Why would I believe such a thing? Although I can tell you of many answers to prayer God has answered in my life and many things God has been speaking into my life recently, I have felt alone and unloved. It's easy to believe a lie when you feel unworthy of love. (You understand, don't you?) I am saved through faith, yet fail miserably at times. I feel unworthy of an all loving God. I feel as if I'm not a good enough child of God's to deserve such love. I can't even comprehend the love God has for me. Can you?
Today though, I read Ephesians 3:17-19 that really spoke to me. God's word is truly living and active! I started to see God's agape love in my life as I read these verses!
Ephesians 3:17-19 says, "Then Christ will make his home in your hearts as you trust in him. Your roots will grow down into God's love and keep you strong. And may you have the power to understand, as all God's people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is. May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God."
My footnotes in my bible said this:
"God's love is total. It reaches every corner of our experience. It is wide enough to cover the breadth of out own experience, and it reaches out to the whole world. It is long enough to continue the length of our lives. It is high enough to rise to the heights of our celebration and elation. It is deep enough to reach the depths of discouragement, despair, and even death. When you feel shut out or isolated, remember that you can never be lost to God's love." (LASB study bible)
God's love is deep enough, wide enough, long enough, and high enough to go above and beyond the existence of my life to love me. I am loved. I am God's. I am not alone. I am a child of God. I AM LOVED BY GOD!
As you look into the richness of the love God has for you. Yes you! May God bring you to an understanding of the love he has for you! As the sun rises and sets each day may you be reminded that he loved you! He loves me! God loves all of us!
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