The Bible is the greatest book on recovery ever written. Every single Bible character had problems, but God restored them and used them for His glory and honor.They accomplished mighty things by his power. And God will use you just like he did them when you turn your life over to him.
(via i-walkbyfaith)
That reality blows me away every time I stop to think about it. Pages and pages of God. His thoughts, His words, His heart. Right there, just a few inches away. I can carry it with me wherever I go. Read it whenever I want. Reading the Bible is one of the most important things we can ever do. It’s more valuable than anything we own, sweeter than anything we have ever eaten. It is literally more important than breathing.
But that’s not always what we see and feel when we open the Bible. Our weak, tired, distracted eyes look – and all we see is a lifeless boring portrait on the wall. But it’s not a portrait. It’s a window. It doesn’t hang lifeless in an old frame on the wall. It breaks through the wall into another world. The real world, the lasting world, the better world. And through this window shines a divine light that changes everything around us. We all know that the road to knowing God is not easy.
Discipline and resolve are important, but they can carry you only so far. A few days, week, maybe a month. In the long run, we need something stronger, more compelling than discipline and resolve. There are too many traps along the path, too many hurdles. At the root, the reason we don’t read the Bible is that we don’t want to read the Bible. We don’t see joy, peace and life when we see the leather binding on our shelf. We see a wall, not a window. The boring portrait, not the never-ending beauty beyond. So we put it off, leave it shut, and move on. We stay in bed, and we miss the miracle.
God wrote a book! And with His book, these words in front of us, He wakens our dead, bored souls. He frees us from bondage to sin, from desires that rob us of life. He comforts the depressed, inspires the discouraged, guides the confused. He empowers us to make our lives count for His cause in the world. He satisfies us completely and forever with words – His words.
So, will I read my Bible tomorrow? Where else would I go? How else will I know him? How else will I prepare myself to enjoy Him forever? Yes! I’ll spend the rest of my life looking out this window, watching, waiting for another sight of Him. Another miracle. Another glimpse of my God."
(via i-walkbyfaith)
6/26/16
Sometimes I think of how undeserving I am of God’s love and how I fail Him day by day. But at the end of each day I am always reminded of how perfectly unconditional His love is and how everytime I make a mistake He gently pulls me back to Him and tell me how nothing I could say or do would make Him love me any less. And I love that so much, it made me stop questioning everything. I love that at the end of the day His loving arms await, that I could talk to him in prayer and tell Him all the things that keep on weighing me down and even if I can’t find the right words to completely surrender everything unto him, i know that He knows what my heart wanted to say and He hears it as if I said it out loud. Because that’s who He is. He knew me before I was even made, and He has made me whole. Right now, I feel as though I have grown spiritually weak because of the circumstances I have previously faced. I feel as though I have forgotten Him along the way. I admit that I am not as spiritually strong as I was before but I am glad that God never fails to get me back on track towards Him everyday. I am still on my way to fully becoming. I am still learning and I am still constantly growing and I know that all throughout this journey, He will be there, walking hand in hand with me, and sometimes even carry me behind His back to make sure I don’t struggle too much, because I know that’s how much He loves me; how much He loves everybody. He carries everyone’s burden and asks us to trust Him with all our hearts. He is compassionate and gracious, slowly to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, and forgiving wickedness. He’s all that and until know I still wake up in awe of how amazing and wonderful He is. I strive to love people the way He always does and always ask him to help me see the good in everyone and to love them just as much as He does. I am still struggling to keep myself together, still struggling to fight off my insecurities and the anxious thoughts clouding my sky, but gladly through Him, I am made well, always and in all ways. I am thankful to be constantly reminded of His love, to be always under His wings of refuge. And each day I believe that I will be okay with me because He is more than okay with me. All is well, even if my thoughts aren’t. All is well because eventually, things will be. All is well, because He is with me. All is well, because He is God and I am His.