(Pardon, the one year absence...but I am back for a while at least)....some thoughts I had today....
Today, a coworker told me that my clock is ticking and I shouldn't be so picky. At least once a week I hear from someone, you should date so and so. Getting older and having most of your friends already married and having children does make you realize that maybe these people are right my clock is ticking. But great news, I am not alone and haven't been for a while.
So this is the part where you think I have suddenly started dating and I found my vocation, but you are wrong. Not dating and still no vocation. I am as single as ever, but still not alone.
Because I am loved by the man who will never stop loving me and is by side 24/7. Which if you think about it, kinda scary because I am a sinner, but that is a different story. I could be brought down by all the chick flicks, love songs, and what people tell me, but I am not alone. I have my best friend by my side each and every day. Right now as I am typing this, Jesus is here.
I know I might be stretching this post a little too far, but this is all my single peeps out there, you are not alone and do not let media or anyone else convince you that you are. If you can imagine a little more with me, your guardian angel is even by your side. So this in room right now with me, I have my dog, my angel, Jesus and about a dozen fish, so not alone.
The point of this post (and I know I haven't written in a while) is to make you think and not feel discouraged and lonely. You are never alone, HE IS WITH US. So people stop thinking my life is miserable and I am lonely because I am not. Currently I am happier than I have been in a long time. Why you may ask? Because started up a daily prayer life again and starting talking to the guy you loves me and knows me better than anyone else.
Psalm 37:4 says, "Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart." It's amazing that if you put all your energy in our Lord, everything doesn't seem to matter and you have a sense of inner peace. I will be honest, this peace might only last 5 minutes and you might start getting caught up in the worries of this world, but you have have to pulled right back in into this peace. Trust in the Lord!
I was listening to the radio and a popular country song from Sugarland came on called Stuck like glue and it made me start to think...
"Absolutely no one that knows me better
No one that can make me feel sooo gooood
How did you stay so long together?
When everybody, everybody said we never would
And just when, I start to think they're right
That love has died....
There you go making my heart beat again,
Heart beat again, Heart beat again,
There you go making me feel like a kid
Won't you do it and do it one time?
There you go pulling me right back in,
Right back in, Right back in
And I know-oo I'm never letting this go-ooo
I'm stuck on you....."
Friends, that is the description of my on and off again friendship with Christ. This world truly does not allow me to live a life with Christ. We are so caught up with greed, jealously, anger, sins of the flesh, judgment to just name a few that we cannot see the purity of life. The Bible even tells us that only the pure of heart shall see our God. (Matthew 5:8) It is no wonder that so many people live a life without Christ because there is a lack of purity in this world.
When you are caught up in this peace and love of the Lord, you do become a little bit like a child and you have a sense of innocence. You begin to have the faith of a child. Faith that is so real and innocent. Faith of a child is complete abandonment to Him, our Savior. Children are weak and need their parents to protect them, to feed them, to nourish them. We need this from our Lord everyday to have this peace in our live. Matthew 18:3 "Truly I say to you, Unless You turn around and become as young children, you will by no means enter into the kingdom of the heavens."
People do say its impossible to live a life with Christ and might even laugh at you if you tell them you are never alone, but HE continuously pulling us right back in, right back in and we should never let go.
Some days I don't feel like trying
Some days you know I wanna just give up.....
It's a hard life to live against what culture is telling how to live, but if we all lived for what makes feel good, then we could never experience TRUE JOY. I do want to give us because what makes me feel good does feel good, but will only last for a while. But living a life with the man who never knows me better is worth it.
I am not alone, I am with the one who knows me better and this love has not died, He is pulling right back in each and every day. I am truly blest and you can be to.
