He died for You too!

     I want to be brutally honest with you. Lately, there is this burning inside of me, deep, deep down. I know what it is, it is a heart yearning for Christ. It is my soul mourning in sadness. It is my desire to help others see Christ for who He is.
   Tears have been something of a daily thing lately; along with bouts of depression but...not the clinical kind of depression. This kind of depression I have been feeling is what I think Jesus feels when He is sad. When He see's you struggling and not looking to Him.
  You  have no idea how many people I see around me who are amazing witness for Christ. They believe Christ for who He is. They know what He is about. They go to church. They are active in church. They share, they evangelize, they believe...but there is something missing.

   All of those things, they believe for someone else.

    When it comes to them, they do not believe God could forgive them for their sins. I have struggled with this, you know, those sins that we make over and over. There are days I think God will eventually say, "Enough! I'm Done!" But you know what, He doesn't. He knew who we were before we were born. (Jeremiah 1:5, 1 Corinthians 8:3, Galatians 1:15 etc). So, though I understand a bit, I don't understand completely how a person could not catch a glimpse of this amazing love.

   My heart breaks for you!

  My soul aches for you!

   I hear our God crying out,
"I love you! I would die for you all over again if you would listen to Me and believe Me!"

 I hear our God crying out,
"This love you share is also for you! Nothing can separate My love from you!" (Romans 8:35-39)

    I have been preparing for a retreat the ladies in our church are doing. The theme is "Living Vertical." I love this because it is so easy, as a wife, as a mom, as an employee, as ......(you fill in the blank) to look down or to just get distracted. But we need to look up. Looking up is all the hope I have some days! Looking up helps me understand this love that He has for me.
  So, in studying for this retreat, we decided on Psalm 121:1-2 for our theme verses. I read the whole passage and was astonished. This burning in my heart, this desire to share with people, and specifically ladies, God's love for them, its all in this passage.
    Verse 8, oh how it brings me to tears... of joy. This is for you as well as me!  "The LORD keeps watch over you as you come and go, both now and forever." NLT
I love the NKJV "The Lord shall preserve your going out and your coming in from this time forth, and even forevermore."
    If that doesn't speak of His love. FOREVERMORE, than I don't know what could.
  If you are one of these people, I am praying for you. Please, pray that God would show you that His love is for you as well. Repent, stand fast, and let Him love you! Read Psalm 121 everyday and repeat the forever more part! He loves you!