74. Not All Choose LIfe...
Posted by:
SeLahGirl on
June 30, 2008 at
4:57PM EST
- It has been a crazy busy summer.
- So many amazing friends, so many great great memories made just hanging out and being random and goofy.
- My favy. haha.
- God has brought so much blessing and I am humbled and so very thankful.
- It crushes a person to realize that things are not what they seem,
- things and ppl that were so important to you and precious.
- I have lived thru many things,
- but only recently have I ever been truly crushed.
- It only takes one time...
- but the things learned from it
- are priceless, precious, and permanent.
- It is definitely worth the price paid,
- though the evil involved was never God's plan.
- He is faithful in bringing beauty from ashes,
- to bring good things from what the enemy meant for evil.
- It is in the consequences of the crushing
- that the sweetest fragrance is released from the most fragile of flowers.
- And it is in that fragrance of prayer and sacrificial praise,
- that crying out with all sincerity and passion,
- that broken place, that trampled place,
- that God transforms us and lets us rise up into his presence and his favor and his grace.
- Some people seek popularity and power
- and they will gut anyone and anything to get it.
- Such people can make you bleed and never blink.
- It can rob you of your hope, of your confidence that there is some kind of good in every person.
- But God is a restorer.
- He blesses when those around you choose to curse.
- He gives you strength and newness, and seven times seventy what the enemy took.
- He gives you hope once again,
- that there is good in the world,
- confidence that some people do reflect his character,
- the courage to intercede for those that choose to embrace evil, to forgive them, to let them go with God.
- The evil remains for a time, but it will never rule and reign.
- Though so many claim to labor for the Kingdom of God,
- not all who wear his name actually do.
- There is a separation
- as heartbreaking and devastating as it is.
- And you can see it like a black bold line
- when you examine the fruit of a person's character,
- what they value most
- how they treat others to get it
- there willingness to kill, to justify murder,
- to make excuse for the sin of those whose favor they seek,
- who supply them the popularity and the power that they crave...
- to look the other way
- as though that makes them innocent.
- There are casualties in war.
- Not all are healed, not all are rescued,
- not all choose Life...
- and Jesus weeps.
