My Relationship With God

It's been a while coming but God has spoken/been speaking to my spirit that He is preparing to move me to another level of Faith. To cross my Jordan... Part of me rejoices for the newness it promises to bring, something different, but there's a fear of the new challenges that are also promised to come. While doing my daily devotion, I was flooded from His scriptures with these Holy Truths...I believe that my God who is Alpha & Omega had written about all the days ordained before me before one came to pass. I believe that He created me to last and to endure, for I am made just in His image. God dwells in me. He has promised me that even in the highest heights or lowest depths...even there His Spirit guides me and His right hand holds me fast. Even in my moments of uncertainty...He guides me on the way everlasting. I surrender me for His Glory. I surrender me for His pleasure...No longer will I resist, seek to control...I WILL TRUST God and all that He is doing in and through me.

I believe that God will put everything on the line to make us whole, even His relationship with us. He took a lot of clutter out of my life, distractions, people, activities, dreams...In order to cross the Jordan, the Joshua commanded the Israelites to get their supplies ready, which meant take only what is necessary. All I thought was gone was for my good. As He slowly puts pieces back in their right places in my life, I understand that only God is necessary to move ahead... Now I realize even after all pains, joys, frustrations, breakthroughs, grief, relief, reluctance to let go, favor, hurts, forgiveness, betrayals, trust, anger, patience, self-doubt, confidence, fear, peace, shame, beauty, mistakes, successes, rejections, edification,...He is God, He is my Father, He loves me, He delights when I please Him with all of me in all ways. He has, is, and will always be the Only One in my life who is always there. When all else is gone out of my life, His love has always been constant, bringing me joy, nursing me back to health and the fullness in Him.

As I walk into this new level of faith, all I have decided to bring with me is the promise that God is forever with me. "I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide them. I will turn the darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth. These are the things I will do. I will not forsake you" (Isaiah 42:16). I know now that it's not about the people, the haves, the situations....my story is about a God who loves me and has promised to be with me and to live life with me. So I praise Him from my utmost being, I praise Him with a grateful heart, I praise Him in a dance, I praise Him for being faithful, for being My God and My everything. I praise Him just because...