Recently someone said to me “You have the kind of life you deserve.” She meant it in a bad way. She meant it to hurt me because she is so hurt and lost and full of pain. But I didn’t take it that way. I didn’t take it as meaning that I deserved the bad that has happened in my life. I took it totally different than someone without Christ in their lives would have taken it.
Have there been bad and ugly thing that have happened to me along this journey? Oh yes! The bible says in John 16:33
33"I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world."
There have been some very bad things in my life but I didn’t let them hold me down. I didn’t let them make me bitter and angry. I let them go and gave them to the one that has overcome the world. Everyone has bad in their lives.
But not everyone can stand and say that the Lord chose to reveal himself to them in very real and miraculous ways. Did I deserve to be healed from Leukemia at 8 years of age? Did I deserve to be sent angels when lost on the side of the road in the desert at 16? How about escaping from an angry gang of thugs unscathed? No I didn’t DESERVE any of that but the Lord saw fit to do it anyway.
When I was young I saw my glass as half empty but now as I have grown in Christ my glass is always full. Yes in this life there will be trouble and there will be good and bad days. But the Lord has seen fit to give me a wonderful husband that makes me laugh daily. He has given me two great, sweet, wonderful and talented girls that keep me young. And, he has given me Life….. Life in Abundance.
I love it, girlfriend. God is great.
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