Pure Love

You are so beautiful. There is promise within you. God has a plan and a purpose for your life and though heart aches come and life can crush the spirit You also have an incredible strength that enables you to rise with wings of faith . Nothing can rob you of a heart filled with praise for God has promised, " For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 8:38, 39 There is One who will never leave you or forsake you "He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds." Psalm 147:2 The holidays are difficult for many even though we all experience different levels of grief and loss. Even those who seem the most optimistic can often feel the crushing weight of emotion and perhaps even guilt for not being as exuberant about the festivities of the Season. The God that I love, the God that I trust however does not judge me in the same manner as well meaning people sometimes do because He looks through to the heart of me. He sees the hurts and understand the wounds that cause them for "He was despised and rejected by mankind,a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem . Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions,he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed." Isaiah 53:3,5 One of the gifts of God not only during the Christmas holiday but always is understanding and compassion. Though there are times you may feel forgotten by those close to you the One who formed you is never far away. If you will search with your whole heart you will find Him . He has not left although "We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all." Isaiah 53:6 You are not forgotten. "The Lord has appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn you." Jeremiah 31:3 He has not abandoned you even when others seem afar off or are miserable comforters. “Can a woman forget her nursing child, And not have compassion on the son of her womb? Surely they may forget, Yet I will not forget you." Isaiah 49:15 The Comforter is come! "And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name JESUS, for He will save His people from their sins.” Matthew 1:21

This is a blog that I just needed to go with the flow of the thoughts that came and those thoughts brought me to scriptures which when I remembered part of I looked up to get the reference and complete verse. I am so thankful for God's precious gift of salvation. I'm so thankful that though I fail and have my struggles that my Heavenly Father sees beyond the rough draft and He will complete the work. I am glad I can pour my heart out before Him in the quiet place and I am safe. He already knows and He has forgiven my past failures and covers me with grace and forgiveness for today and has the future in His hands. I shall not fear. You and I are loved! His gift is pure love 1 Corinthians 13 New International Version 1984 1If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. 4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 12Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. 13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. God's gift is pure love. Be blessed!