Not the End

Suffering washes in like a tidal wave, it tosses and whips in different directions. The sun begins to come into sight yet another undertow quickly sweeps you under and life swirls out of control. When the situation seems hopeless and nothing appears to be strong enough, a hand suddenly pulls you up out of the darkness and misery and puts you back on solid ground. You realize that you were never alone and someone was always watching out for you.

The suffering fades and in its place is a peace so great that you can't explain it. Strength begins to flow through you and joy is radiated from your heart and soul. How can this be one may ask? There is only one explanation, there is Someone far greater and has more power than any other being. One who desires the best for His people and fills there hearts with hope, perseverance, and love. The only one who can heal a heart that is suffering so and is broken and make that very same heart whole again. The one who is your perfect Father who never leaves or forsakes you.

I have experienced great sorrow in my life and have felt broken and alone. Yet Christ has lifted me out of this despair and has filled me with such strength and joy. He is the reason that I am alive and I will live for Him until my very last breath. No one knows the amount of days that they have left on this earth so live each one to the fullest. Just because great tragedy has stricken me I have learned that He is not finished with my life and this is not the end. I have learned so much through this period of time. God's timing is absolutely perfect and He always provides. He knows everything that anyone could ever need.

So if you are in a sea of despair take hope because the God of all creation is here for you and will never leave. You are loved and you can make it through this season and He will set your feet back on solid ground, He is not finished with you yet.

Psalm 139:11-18

"If I say, 'Surely the darkness will hid me and the light become light around me,'

even the darkness will not be dark to you;

the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.

For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place.

When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body.

All the days are ordained for me were written in you book before one of them came to be...When I awake I am still with you."

Forever Reign

You are light you are light when the darkness closes in. You are hope you are hope, you have covered all my sin...You are life you are life in you death has lost its sting. And oh I'm running to your arms I'm running to your arms. The riches of your love will always be enough, nothing compares to your embrace. Light of the world forever reign."~Kristian Stanfill