Loved by my King

I just have to share how incredibly loved I feel by the Lord right now.  I sing His praises everyday for how He has redeemed my life, rewritten my most painful stories and authored a new chapter of grace and overflowing love in my life.  There is a season for all things and I have experienced such a long season of tearing down, mourning, and uprooting but now, Now God's grace has ushered me into such a beautiful season of laughter, building up, and dancing before Him. I truly feel like His beautiful, loved, precious daughter. For so long  I felt like a disappointment before God, a failure, worthless.  But God's hand has drawn me out of that pit of destruction and shown me the reality of who He is and the kind of intimate relationship we can have.  It's beautiful to see Him at work in my life and to see how He not only meets my needs but fulfills and exceeds my heart's desires.  I am a blessed daughter of the King!  Blessed doesn't mean all circumstances of life will be easy, painless, etc but it does mean I have all I need in Him to experience victory and joy regardless of the storm raging around me or not. I cannot praise Him enough for saving Him me from ... myself, from hopelessness and from utter lonesomeness without Him.  I love Ecc 3:11 below "He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end." I cannot fathom the work of God but all I know is that I want to be in the midst of it, I want to continue to watch Him make beautiful those things that were once ugly and seemingly destroyed, like me. I want to live the adventure of a life committed to Him, up for anything He throws my way - no limits, no boundaries on what I will do, where I will go, who I will love.  1 John 4:18 says "There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear.."

 

Ecclesiastes 3:1-4,7-8, 11-14

 ¹ There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven: ² a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot ³ a time to kill and a time to heal,  a time to tear down and a time to build, ⁴ a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, ⁷ a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, ⁸ a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace. ..¹¹ He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end. ¹² I know that there is nothing better for men than to be happy and do good while they live. ¹³ That everyone may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all his toil—this is the gift of God. ¹⁴ I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that men will revere him.

 

My worship song right now is "How He Loves Us" by David Crowder band.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWgeUrD4MHI&NR=1.  Just listen and read the words below. 

 

 

He is jealous for me, Loves like a hurricane, I am a tree,
Bending beneath the weight of his wind and mercy.
When all of a sudden, I am unaware of these afflictions eclipsed by glory,
And I realize just how beautiful You are,
And how great Your affections are for me.

And oh, how He loves us oh
Oh how He loves us,
How He loves us all

He loves us,
Oh how He loves us,
Oh how He loves us,
Oh how He loves.

And we are His portion and He is our prize,
Drawn to redemption by the grace in His eyes,
If His grace is an ocean, we're all sinking.
And heaven meets earth like an unforeseen kiss,
And my heart turns violently inside of my chest,
I don't have time to maintain these regrets,
When I think about, the way…

That He loves us,
Oh how He loves us,
Oh how He loves us,
Oh how He loves.
Yeah, He loves us,
Oh how He loves us,
Oh how He loves us,
Oh how He loves.