Is it just me or is anyone else really tired? In almost every way— physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. Almost like you might be living the same day everyday. Like the world is moving but your at a stand still. Like your getting up every single day and trying your best to survive just like the day before. Yea, same. I don’t exactly know where i’m going with this but i trust that He will lead this post where it should be. Honestly, i’m not even sure how these should be or should sound.. i’m just here because maybe there’s at least one person on here who needs honesty. Who not only needs honesty but needs healing. Not saying that this blog or myself is healing to you but in every post, in every writing i hope you can see Jesus. I hope that you know Him better than you did yesterday. I hope that He gives you hope through this. I believe, that if not today there is someone who needs to hear that Jesus is the only way to happiness. And if you have been trying to find that in everyone and everything and it has been exhausting and dissapointing— it’s actually hard to hear someone say “hey, try this” because it seems as though you have tried everything. But, you haven’t. You haven’t given Him a chance yet. So, before you decide on not having Him in your life or knowing because of what you think you know about Him or how the world makes Him out to be because they decided to make up their minds about Him— make your own decision. Try Him out yourself. There is not one person who has met Jesus and walked away from Him and if they did.. they missed Him. Though He was right in front of them, they missed Him. I hope that someone is you. I hope He softens your heart as you read and you decide to at least mumble a prayer to Him. I started off this post talking about exhaustion because that’s exactly what i feel right now, maybe that’s exactly what you feel right now— and i don’t know what usually encourages you or gives you strength and hope to keep you moving forward but i’ll tell you what helps me (if it isn’t so obvious). The thing about Jesus is He is the most honest person ever— and so He will never lie to you. (Which means when He says He loves you, He means it.) also, when He says that this world will have trouble He means it too. I love that about Him — He’s so brutally honest.. i think it’s where i get it from. He will never tell you just anything to make you feel good.. He will tell you the truth because that’s love. So, this scripture in John 16:33 “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble.But take heart! I have overcome the world.” Is so very honest. Because He doesn’t say “because i came and died everything will be peaches and cream and you will smile and dance until i return.” That wasn’t the point of the cross. The point of the cross was so that you could be set free from the hold of sin that immediately separates you from God the Father’s love and your relationship with Him. He saved your relationship with God. Also, saved you from hell and death but nobody ever wants to talk about that.. another writing for a different day. But, i love how He basically says “ This will not be easy. This life will bring you heartbreak and tears, grief, loneliness and sorrow. I will not promise you anything false. So, i promise you Me. I promise that I will overcome every single thing you face. I promise that I will never leave you in this world with no hope, no joy, no faith, no love, no way out. I promise that I have a plan and you will rise from your grave as I did.” I’m so glad that He’s honest. Yes, this scripture might be one of those kinds of honesty that hurts but heals. And in our human nature we would rather not hear honesty if it means it will sting for a while and later on heal and save us. We rather be comfortable even if it means believing lies and watered down truth.
I don’t know about you but knowing that God has already overcome every single thing that i will ever go through until He returns gives me so much courage and perseverance. It gives me so much hope and confidence that things that may look ugly right now, things and people that you may have lost, sickness and disease you or someone you love has, or just the overwhelming feeling of just complete exhaustion is not your/my forever. That’s the beauty of believing in Jesus and taking Him on as Lord and savior— This terrible ending that the world wants to stamp over our lives “death, depression, anxiety, loneliness, loss, pain” etc.. is not your ending because He stamps eternity over your life instead. Where there will no mourning, no more tears, no more pain, no more suffering, no more death and sickness, no more exhaustion— Just joy. Just peace. Just dancing and singing and laughter. Just purity and every single thing that you’ve ever longed for here on earth will be there but 1000000x better.
My hope is that i don’t have to overcome anything because He already has. When He died on that cross for me/you and rose from the dead 3 days later – every single thing that would ever cause me/you grief and tears was silenced and crushed by Him so that it wouldn’t silence and crush me/you. He went through it all just to give me this hope. God, the most righteous, holy God came to live a human life and then die my/your death penalty so He could make sure that i/you have this hope right now when i/you are exhausted. So, He could give us strength when we’re at our weakest. Because, knowing that we would need it.. knowing that i/you would need Him — He came not even knowing if i/you would choose Him or not. Just simply the joy before Him picturing that i/you would be His and a relationship with you was enough for Him to go through an agonizing death in your place.
He’s overcome. Everything that you will/have faced, doesn’t get the last say on how this will end. He does and He said “ It Is Finished.”
If you happen not to have this hope and strength.. it’s here for you. It was never not available for you to take hold of. Believe in Him today. Trust Him today. Surrender your life to Him today.
Everything you long for is on the otherside of your “Yes” to Jesus.
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