For the Sojourner...
Don’t Quit.
When the road is lonely….and the support is gone. All doors are closed. It’s then that you determine….I will not quit.
It’s in the wait.
It’s in the struggle of trusting when everything looks dead.
It’s in the wait that the song comes forth.
I had set my heart on love and love eluded me. I had set my heart on the nod of a man and their nods eluded me. I had set my heart on the fantasy portrayed by Disney and the fantasy eluded me. And then God captured my heart and my attention and that’s when the real work began.
I thought for sure I understood what love was, I mean it had to be similar to what I saw in the movies right? At some point, someone would come and rescue me, and I would live happily ever after, right?
Wrong.
Love is not a butterfly feeling in the stomach or even sweet poems written by pen. Love is yoked with death, submission, and uncomfortable iron sharpening iron.
I had no idea; and who would want that kind of love anyway.
I did.
You do.
If you know what’s good for you.
God loves us to the point of sacrificing all and then dares us to follow Him.
4 Love is large and incredibly patient. Love is gentle and consistently kind to all. It refuses to be jealous when blessing comes to someone else. Love does not brag about one’s achievements nor inflate its own importance. 5 Love does not traffic in shame and disrespect, nor selfishly seek its own honor. Love is not easily irritated or quick to take offense. 6Love joyfully celebrates honesty and finds no delight in what is wrong. 7 Love is a safe place of shelter, for it never stops believing the best for others. Love never takes failure as defeat, for it never gives up.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 TPT
He is a good good Father and his commandments bring life. Regardless of what life throws our way (afflictions) God delivers us out of them all.
Who would turn away from such a kind King?
On my way to petitioning the Lord for a husband, I found my Father.
I had no idea that the time I would spend worshiping Him and dying to self would be the training ground I needed to walk the path to my husband. I died a thousand times.
I waited and I cried.
But through it all God was faithful.
Not at all angered by my broken humanity.
He always led with such gentle care and disciplined when necessary.
And after four years of waiting, He led me to the one that He had called mine.
Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.
Proverbs 13:12
When we submit ourselves to the Will of the Father and allow Him to work in us and through us the desires of our heart…He will bring it to pass.
Hope in the Lord
…I will never disappoint those who entwine their hearts with mine.”
Isaiah 49:23
Hope in the Lord will never put us to shame. He is worthy of our trust; He is worthy of our pain. Stay on the path, don’t give up, God is good.
And in the end, you will sing…just like Mary did.
45 Great favor is upon you, for you have believed every word spoken to you from the Lord.”
Mary’s Prophetic Song
46 And Mary sang this song: “My soul is ecstatic, overflowing with praises to God!
47 My spirit bursts with joy over my life-giving God!
Luke 1:45-47 The Passion Translation (TPT)
