God is good all the time….
And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us. – Romans 5:5
I started writing last year while she was fighting her battle….
It was about once a month or so….
It was to help keep people updated….
It was to share His goodness….
His presence…..
His faithfulness….
His hand….
In every part of this journey….
It started to bless people….
It started to encourage people….
It encouraged me….
It caused me to recall His love in my life….
It lifted me up in dark times….
It was almost therapeutic….
The responses of encouragement grew….
People needed to hear what God was saying through us….
My Healed Wife went to her ultimate victory….
She got her perfect and complete healing….
I started to write more often….
Working through the pain in the flesh….
Working through the grief….
With Him….
Through Him….
Being totally transparent….
Vulnerable….
But sharing our story….
People continued to respond with encouragement….
They needed to hear….
They needed to feel….
They needed to feel the peace….
The peace we were finding….
They needed to hear it was there….
It gave them hope….
That they could find peace….
Peace in their version of tragedy….
Most knew it was available….
Most had forgotten…..
The flesh can be a dark place in grief…..
It can hold you down….
Keep you down….
It is a part of healing….
To hurt….
To acknowledge the hurt….
But I can only stay there for a moment….
The darkness relentlessly closes in…..
I pull back quickly….
Quickly into the light….
Darkness does not stand a chance against the light…..
The light of Jesus…..
The light of His word….
The light that shines from His love….
Darkness flees…..
The punk flees….
The Bible says the punk will flee in stark terror….
Light is life…..
We choose to stay in the light as much as we can….
Where His goodness abounds….
He put it on my heart to “reach more people”….
I did not know what to do….
I started a blog….
It reaches a few people….
I pay to promote the blog….
It reaches a few more people….
I post on Facebook….
It reaches some of my friends….
I pay to boost the post….
It reaches some strangers…
I post on Pinterest….
It reaches a few…….
I pay to advertise the post….
It reaches a few more….
I post on LinkedIn….
It reaches a few people….
I share it with anyone who will listen….
Where do I go next….
He continues to tell me to “reach more people”….
YouTube….
TikTok….
A book….
Not sure where to go next….
Way out of my comfort zone….
I know I am on the right path….
The punk has been throwing stuff in my way….
Trying to discourage me…..
Trying to make me feel like I am not reaching people….
I have gotten some extremely negative comments….
Personal attacks….
Out of my comfort zone….
Transparent….
Vulnerable….
Because of that exposure….
The attacks sting a bit….
I reel back quickly….
Trying to protect…..
The Lord catches me….
Nudges me forward….
Nudges me back into the ring….
Back into the fight….
Keep going son….
You are reaching people who don’t know Me…..
Persecution will come….
Keep fighting….
Stay in the ring…..
Those who are seeking Me…..
Those who don’t know Me….
Those who know Me but need encouragement….
They need to hear this….
Reach them all…
Reach more….
It may prick some people….
They may lash back….
They need to hear of Me…..
You are a vessel for Me….
Let Me use you…..
Let Me change lives for eternity….
Be strong…..
Be courageous…..
He encourages me…..
I am reaching more people…..
The response just verifies…
Negative or positive….
I am reaching more people….
Keep reaching….
In a world of unknown….
He reminds me….
I have the armor of God….
I must do all I can do…..
And then I must stand…..
This has been a beautiful horrible experience…..
I have been a peaceful wreck….
The beautiful and the peaceful….
Comes only from Him….
It would have been horrible….
I would have been a wreck….
But God…..
His love took over my life…..
He chooses to love me….
He chooses to love you….
He asks us for one thing in return….
Love….
Love Him….
Love others…..
Correction….
He commands us to love….
Love in the world has been so diluted…..
It has been made into an uncontrollable emotion….
Think about it….
We fall in love…..
What a negative connotation….
Oooops, I tripped and fell in a hole….
Somewhere on in the process of falling….
On the way down….
This love stuff got all over me….
I was forced to receive the emotion…..
It was out of my control….
Not only do I fall out of control into a hole….
A hole filled with some kind of love….
If my love grows….
My hole gets deeper….
Uncontrollably again….
Falling deeper in love….
Again….
Not a choice….
I am in a hole….
That kinda love leaves us as quickly as it comes on us….
It can change according to our circumstances…..
It can change in an instant….
True love is a choice….
If it was out of our control….
He would not command us to love….
If it was something we could not control….
If the who was out of our control….
He would not command us to do it….
He will never command us to do anything that we cannot do….
Love is a choice…..
Love is a commitment….
It is intentional….
It is lifts us up…..
It puts us in a higher position….
In a place to receive the full blessings…..
We don’t fall in love….
We RISE in love….
We RISE in love….
We can all do it….
Make the choice to love….
We can all choose to love…..
Because He first loved us…..
He is perfect love….
He sent Jesus to show us….
How to walk this earth….
With perfect love….
Not with shallow feelings that come and go….
But with love that never judges….
Love that is patient….
Love that is kind….
Love that does not envy….
Love that does not boast….
Love that is not prideful….
Love that in not self-seeking….
Love that is not easily angered….
Love that keeps no record of wrongs…..
Love that does not delight in evil….
Love that delights in the truth….
Love that always protects…
Always trusts….
Always hopes….
Love that always perseveres….
That is true love….
That love is available and freely given to us….
That is love we can choose….
We can choose to have for others.….
To give to others….
Starting with our spouse….
Starting with our family….
Spreading to everyone….
To friends….
To strangers…..
To enemies….
To all…..
He provides us love and hope…..
Freely He gives….
All we have to do is choose….
…… all the time God is good
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