Timing is everything.

I began to re-read some of my past blogs, and I started reading the one I wrote about love is dying to yourself. I wrote it back in June last year. Weird... that seems so long ago, but it really isn't. I came across this comment on that blog written by a guy I have never even met. It took me this long to find it, but it's all in God's timing which is probably why it hit me so much when I read it.

John West said...

Well, Melissa, I only have a few things to say. I am A director of a 1/2 way house in Lubbock Texas called The Remnant. I was searching the internet for some good study ideas about dying to yourself and here I am. I am not a stranger to the feeling of confusion and unsurity in life. But, I am also not a stranger to the power of God to give me the understanding I need to be exactly where I need to be and do exactly what God has for me. I have a saying I tell people when they are struggling with their present, You can look at your past, just don't stare at it. I believe that God is telling me that you struggle with past mistakes, and that your problem isn't finding your place in the present, but removing yourself from your past. If we are truly pressing forward to the goal to win the prize through Christ Jesus, it assumes that we have made every effort to cut the chains that have held us in bondage to the very things that take from us the peace Jesus says we can have that we can't even understand, the joy of his salvation, and the unfathomable love that is given no matter your faults, mistakes, victories, triumphs, or failures. There are two things that hold back a human being more than anything else. Insecurity and fear. You must ask yourself today what you are afraid of. Why are you so insecure that faith seems always to be a belief but hardly ever an action.

WE ENSLAVE OURSELVES THROUGH FEAR, JESUS SAVES US FROM OURSELVES THROUGH LOVE.

I challenge you today to seek the depths of how your Lord loves you and how that love burns away all fear and all question, all confusion, and all doubt.

Quit swimming in the sea of forgetfullness and walk on water. Love you in Jesus.