I am Undeservingly Blessed! Have you though about how blessed and how loved you are? Well, I have! You might be able to relate to me on this. I thought of it for a few minute today. Although I couldn’t quietly wrapped my head around the growth, the joy and The Hope I have but here is my heart.
My life is filled with incredible blessings! I don’t deserve it, I’m not worthy, but I stand here today with an overwhelmingly grateful heart. As I continue to do life, walking in daily obedience on this journey with my Maker, I see and understand at a deeper level how in my surrender, I gain so much more in return. I know it doesn’t make sense to the outside world, that giving something up even renders a possibility to end up with more you had to begin with.. but that’s the easiest way I can describe it. I lay it at the feet of Jesus, and He uses it, He uses EVERYTHING for His good, and He always has my best interest at heart, ALWAYS. Are all my situations and relationships ideal? Hardly. But I trust and I know that He is using every circumstance to further develop and strengthen my character.
Want to know the crazy cool thing about this whole experience? I’m beginning to see His hand working in places I’ve never noticed it before! And those moments, the ones that at one point in my life seemed pointless and irrelevant, are the moments I covet the most lately, because it’s when I see the goodness and faithfulness of my God so clear, so evident, so bold, so beautiful! I love these moments, I crave these moments. I love the purely gorgeous feeling my heart has when it’s overflowing with joy. I love seeing Him woven into heartache and tragedy, in my life and the lives of those around me. I love witnessing Him begin a work in someone important in my life. I love seeing people begin the transformation of growing into the person they were created to be. I love being part of this journey with those He intentionally put in my path at different times in my life. I love the honesty and authenticity of a real heart to heart conversation. I love that I get to do life with people who inspire and encourage my heart. I love seeing His plans come to life. I love being humbled by words of a loved one. I love that things happen in my life every single day that make my heart burst with a happiness that can’t be put into words. I love the freedom surrender provides. I love getting to be part of something so much bigger than myself. I love that God gives me opportunities to live out His love and to be His hands and feet.
Tonight, (I), “We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure.”—Hebrews 6:19 NIV
Becaus of that same HOPE, I’m grateful, grateful for a God that knows my heart, and who loves me unconditionally. It’s really that simple. My hope is built, on nothing less, than Jesus’ Blood, and His Righteousness! I dare not trust, the sweetest frame, but wholly lean on Jesus’ Name!
I love the lyrics of “In Christ Alone” by the Gettys. The writers expressed the true sentiment of my heart in this song. I just don’t know where I would be if it has not been that “Hope” that is made secured through Jesus Christ Alone!
Friends, I am Undeservingly Blessed! That same Hope is still available today! Hope is waiting for you! Believe it and received it.
~ In Christ Alone ~
“In Christ alone my hope is found,
He is my light, my strength, my song;
this Cornerstone, this solid Ground,
firm through the fiercest drought and storm.
What heights of love, what depths of peace,
when fears are stilled, when strivings cease!
My Comforter, my All in All,
here in the love of Christ I stand.
In Christ alone! who took on flesh
Fulness of God in helpless babe!
This gift of love and righteousness
Scorned by the ones he came to save:
Till on that cross as Jesus died,
The wrath of God was satisfied –
For every sin on Him was laid;
Here in the death of Christ I live.
There in the ground His body lay
Light of the world by darkness slain:
Then bursting forth in glorious Day
Up from the grave he rose again!
And as He stands in victory
Sin’s curse has lost its grip on me,
For I am His and He is mine –
Bought with the precious blood of Christ.
No guilt in life, no fear in death,
This is the power of Christ in me;
From life’s first cry to final breath.
Jesus commands my destiny.
No power of hell, no scheme of man,
Can ever pluck me from His hand;
Till He returns or calls me home,
Here in the power of Christ I’ll stand.”
Sing with the Gettys here: