I Can Trust Jesus...

This quote has grabbed my attention alot. I have had opportunity,

just like anyone else in this world,

to experience the reality of this many times in my short life.

God is sovreign. It took me a number of years to 

grab onto and cling fiercely to the truth

that as His child, I will have nothing done to me,

taken from me, or withheld from me that

He does not allow or ordain for

my good and His glory.

Grasping this and breaking completely in this

has given me amazing freedom to simply be.

I am His.

He is mine.

I don't need to worry.

I don't need to pine away for what

I don't have that it seems I should,

or for what was/is done to me that

is not God's way,

nor do I need to have constant knee-jerk

reactions when life's imperfections touch

me in real ways very often in a week's time.

Go to the Father weeping?

Oh yes.

Surrendered in the weeping?

Great freedom is found there.

Hold to God's unchanging hand.

In that holding, in the yieldedness,

in the vulnerable place of completely

entrusting my life to this One whom

I have never seen and yet His fiery

presence fills my heart,

is one of the most joyous places I

have ever experienced to live.

There, I find life's meaning:

know HIM...

and in the knowing of Him,

I 'unconsciously' make Him known to others.

In this place of freedom, I hear

from Him how to pass along His truth to

my friends and family...

calling for them to come with me

into His presence where there is

fullness of joy.

In this place of trusting freedom,

I find the ability to be grateful,

because praise to Him is powerful,

no matter if my circumstances change,

or if they stay the same for

what seems to stretch out before me

like a long winding river whose

end I cannot see.

He is able.

He is faithful.

He is all knowing.

He will keep me always.

A number of years ago, a dear friend sent me this song.

I know that I shared it on this blog before, but

I share it again because recently it has really been

ministering life to me once more as I walk

thru a harder season than some I have walked

in recent years. I hope that it can encourage you too.

I Can Trust Jesus

by the Collingsworth Family