Why are you downcast?

Psalm 43:5 (New International Version)

⁵ Why are you downcast, O my soul?
Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God,
for I will yet praise him,
my Savior and my God.

I have no reason to be downcast, depressed, weighed down. My circumstances WILL NOT weigh down my praise to my Heavenly, Glorious, WONDERFUL Savior God.

Micah 7:8 :

⁸ Do not gloat over me, my enemy!
Though I have fallen, I will rise.
Though I sit in darkness,
the LORD will be my light.

Though I feel as if darkness is creeping in, the LORD my God will be my light. For light always defeats darkness when it is called on, and I call on my God, my light, my hope in a losing situation.

Monica <3

QUESTIONS

How could He do this?
Die for me?
my sin was on His back,
My hand beat Him...
yet He died loving me...

ME..

Jesus Christ loves a sinner,
died for a sinner...

ME.


Why?
Why did He die for me?
Why not die for the ones who loved Him?
You know ...Peter, Mary, John ..
Why die for me?
The sick, twisted, sinner I am?

Why?

Because He came as a Healer to heal the sick,
And a Savior to save the sinful ...


ME.




Back when I was a cutter, I had a habit of loving God one moment, and cutting myself the next because I chose to ignore God's voice and instead fall into another spiral ... I was a twisted sinner ... someone who chose this sin .. over God. and many of us do .. so this note is for everyone .. everyone who at some point in their life .. chose sin over God. we all have.

But Jesus Christ died for that moment when we would choose sin over God. He died so we could be forgiven and turn away from the sin.

He died loving us.... because while we were still sinners, Christ died for us...

Surrender

The sins ... (our sins)
The grief ... (our grief)
The BURDEN (our burden)

ALL laid on Him.
Because He loved us enough to surrender
His will, His comfort..
To instead, show us grace...

Can't we surrender, too?


Thank-You, Father God

"Yet not my will, but yours be done." ~Jesus Christ

In His Palm (Easter Vigil thoughts 2)

What do we put in the palm of our hand?

Something small, fragile, maybe broken ...



We are small, fragile, broken, afraid ...

But God has us in the palm of His hand because He knows we are all of those things, but MORE.

We are not just fragile, we are special to Him. We are His children .. and in the palm of His hand, we shall stay, to be protected from this storms of life, loved, adored, and comforted .. He is our refuge, our strength ...


May God hold YOU in the palm of His hand ..

Monica <3

He is Alive! (Easter Vigil thoughts 1)

Today I went to Grace Fellowship's Easter Vigil ... God revealed a lot to me, more than I thought I could ever comprehend ...

I had been through three stations b4 i made it to the 'Living in the Storms' station, room #4. But the one that stuck in my mind was 'Alive!' .. I kept thinking, 'How do we know that our God is alive?' I mean, I know He is ... but how do I know? What in me makes me KNOW that? And then I look out the window, and outside is this BEAUTIFUL, breath-taking view of the lake ...

the wind was bad today, so the lake had ripples in it ... it was MOVING, refusing to stand still ...

it was ALIVE.

The wind made the water look alive, vibrant ... not stagnant and uninspiring ...

I think the water looks more beautiful when the wind has created ripples, when it's smooth, perfect surface becomes rippled and uneven.

Just like our life is more beautiful when it's not smooth, perfect, or untouched. Our life is beautiful, our GOD is beautiful, when we see the wind, the storms in life, create ripples in our life that tear up the perfection we wanted ... when we can see the God we serve holding us in His arms with love and compassion to carry us through the storms.

We know the God we serve is alive because the storms in life, the wind and the rain, show He's alive. Without them, we wouldn't see the hope, love, comfort, and peace that God has offered us through the storms in life ...




Jimmy Needham - Hurricane

I have built a city here
Half with pride and half with fear
Just wanted a safer place to hide
I don’t want to be safe tonight

CHORUS
I need You like a hurricane
Thunder crashing, wind and rain
To tear my walls down
I’m only Yours now
I need you like a burning flame
A wild fire untamed
To burn these walls down
I’m only Yours now
I’m only Yours now

I am Yours and You are mine
You know far better than I
And if destruction’s what I need
Then I’ll receive it Lord from Thee
Yes, I’ll receive it Lord from Thee

(Chorus)

And it’s Your eye in the storm
Watching over me
And it’s Your eye in the storm
Wanting only good for me
And if You are the war
Let me be the casualty
‘Til I’m Yours alone
I am only Yours
I am Yours alone, Lord

(Chorus)

Come be my hurricane




"We are made beautiful and a light grows within us through trials. The storms in life wear away at our life, but expose the beautiful thing that comes through the perseverance" ~Monica Taylor

With love on Easter weekend,
Monica <3>