The desert and the parched land will be glad;
the wilderness will rejoice and blossom.
and the ransomed of the LORD will return.
They will enter Zion with singing;
everlasting joy will crown their heads.
Gladness and joy will overtake them,
and sorrow and sighing will flee away.
Isaiah 35:1,10
Do you ever feel like your frustrating circumstances are going to last FOREVER?! I know I have felt like that. I found that I was just waiting for the next "bad" thing to happen and that I was going to endure is so I can look more like Jesus. But isn't is also true that our Heavenly Father can use REALLY FUN things to make us look more like His son? I am beginning to believe so. I am figuring out that part of this process is to just be open handed with the fun things he brings my way. Learning to be content with the way life is today and letting God surprise me with the way He takes care of me and gives me little gifts of love. He knows me so much better than I could ever know myself and that alone is so cool.
I was really encouraged today that even if all the hard stuff, the rejection, disappointments and such last my entire lifetime that is STILL NOT ETERNITY!!! In eternity I get to be with Jesus forever and all this hard stuff will be a distant memory! Praise the Lord!!! And even in this I don't want to miss Jesus...I do not want heaven without Jesus...Oh that the Spirit would give me a longing for my Savior!!
I love the passage above because in it I can see the PROMISES of God....this passage tells us what will happen. Not too good to be true, but rather this is the Reality of those who commit their lives to being whole hearted followers of Jesus, the Son of the Living God!!! I pray you fall more in love with Jesus today and will join me in radically committing your entire life to Him.
