Letting Go

"Come to me, all who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light." Matthew 11:28-30

It has taken a few days to be able to write this post. This week has been one of the hardest I've seen in my 25 1/2 years. My burdens are not share-able but I would ask that you would pray the truth above into my life if you are reading this. I have walked with the Lord many years now and have laid many burdens safely into his all-encompassing arms and walked away with rest. It has been a challenge to lay my burdens down this week. Jesus asks me to come to him, to seek Him in my grief and in my trials. I am so longing to lay at His feet and find that the One who is above all and who loves with a deep and pure love will be all that my eyes need to see in this time.

Sometimes he answers with miracles that heal, miracles that save. And sometimes he answers with Himself- "My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness." (2 Cor. 12:9)

I come to Him and find that there is no greater love than His, no greater peace than the One that He speaks over me. "In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world." (John 16:33) and "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid." (John 14:27). Amen! God's peace is beautiful and full. When the world can be such a broken and dark place to be, His light is bright and He whispers, "I know the plans I have for you, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a hope and a future." (Jer. 29:11). In both this life and the next I know His promises are trustworthy and that is awesome.

Thanks, Lord, for being good and loving. Thanks for hope in the middle of brokenness and rainbows in the rain. Thank you, too, for all the blessings and wonderful joys you have given to me day by day. I am so undeserving of your goodness and yet you continue to bless me. I pray that through these trials I will come to walk more closely with you and that others will know you more too along the way.