Girl Diaries: ABIDE IN HIS LOVE

Girl Diaries: ABIDE IN HIS LOVE: On Sunday past - Mother's Day - I was feeling very sorry for myself. Exasperated. Disheartened. Unappreciated. Deserted. I asked God, ...

ABIDE IN HIS LOVE

On Sunday past - Mother's Day - I was feeling very sorry for myself. Exasperated. Disheartened. Unappreciated. Deserted.

I asked God, when do I get a break ... when are You going to send me help or make things ease up for me; when am I getting my miracle? You told me to wait on you; well it has been 9 months and things seem to be getting harder ... I'm just giving and giving and giving; I have no more to give.

God said to me "just give thanks for what you do have and continue to wait on me". Not the answer I wanted but in that hearing from my heavenly Father I was encouraged knowing that He is with me. Even though He was putting me on my place, He is with me. He is with me, He is for me and He loves me. His grace is sufficient for me. His grace that carries me through and enables me to keep going when I really can't go on anymore; in those moments when I am physically, emotionally and spiritually empty. His grace that was with me even when I didn't deserve it; even when I got it wrong and when I messed up and made bad choices, when I was acting in a manner that did not bring glory to His name. When I was behaving in ways contradictory to the manner in which a daughter of the King behaves.

What exactly is this grace and what does it mean when people say "His grace is sufficient"?

GRACE IS GOD BRINGING, NOT ONLY HIS PRESENCE BUT ALSO HIS PARTICIPATION INTO OUR LIVES. 
 If we can just master the art of giving thanks and praising Him through the storms of life then I think it will make things a little easier and it will make the storms go by faster. It should be our natural reaction; to praise Him through the storms but it isn't easy to react above the feelings and emotions; and then for fun He still threw in estrogen and progesterone just to mess with us and make things more challenging... He has a sense of humour like that! 

I kept asking God what is the lesson in this journey that You have me on. There have been so MANY lessons but I kept feeling like there is this one major revolutionary lesson that God is trying to teach me and yesterday I finally got it... UNCONDITIONAL LOVE. God is teaching me to love unconditionally - the way that HE loves us - after all it is one of the (if not THE) thing(s) He requires of us - to love real; they way HE loves. Not this give and take nonsense that the world has imprinted in our heads. Love is a verb, it is something you do and you keep doing regardless. 

 

 

^"So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him." 1 John 4:16

 

Abide is to accept or act in accordance with. You could say what John is saying here is that whoever acts in accordance to love, acts in accordance to God...

 

 

So the next time I complain about being on empty and feeling as though I have given all that I have to give; please remind me of this. There is no end to love. There is no such thing as giving too much or giving until there is nothing left because according to His great love for us it never ceases, never fails.

 

And so, as my daddy put me on my place just like that; in the end it gives me the boost I need as I am reminded of a promise in HIS word to not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.

 

Bradley's Miraculous Recovery

On Friday 12 September 2014 my husband was in a motorbike accident; on his way from work he was hit off his bike by a motorist who didn't see him. The prognosis was sever damage to the brain stem (which is the part of the brain that controls everything else); a broken leg, dislocated hip and he had a stroke as a result of the brain trauma. I was told by the Neurologist that they cannot understand how he even made it to the hospital alive; I was told to start making "arrangements" because by the end of that week they were planning on switching off the machines as they don't see hope of him recovering and once the machines are switched off he will die. After this report from the Dr's I found a quiet corner in the foyer, lifted my eyes to the heavens and said "Lord, what is your report" God said to me "be still and wait on me" after nearly 8 months of waiting just look at the miraculous progress he has made... it is only through God's grace that this is possible. My husband is a living miracle and our story a testimony to God's greatness; His Sovereignty and His amazing love.