So this is new for me. In the past 2 years, I absolutely have fallen in love with journaling my thoughts; however, I have never published them or made them accessible to whoever may somehow be interested. Journaling is good for my soul, good for me to vent my struggles or convictions and later reflect upon them. It is good for me to physically see on paper what God is stirring in my heart and to later see how those desires seemed to manifest. How even though I face times of anguish, of fear, of bitterness, of uncertainty, God comes through. His promises are faithful. They are just and no matter how horrible the situation might have seemed, He was still holding me gently in His hands. Those are the same hands that created the earth, that can strike us down at any moment, the hands that brought wrath on His disobedient children of Israel, still hold us, even though we are disobedient, even though we deserve death. As children of God, He pursues us in His loving grace and mercy. The book of Hosea is becoming a new favorite of mine. It is simply amazing! Israel was on the same level as a prostitute when it came to worshiping God, her people were adulterous in their acts and did not remember their first love because they instead, worshipped other man-made gods. While God in his justice should destroy Israel, He has a plan because God is also loving. Chapter 2 verses 14-16 declare God's love for His people:
14 "Therefore I am now going to allure her;
I will lead her into the desert
and speak tenderly to her.
15 There I will give her back her vineyards,
and will make the Valley of Achor [a] a door of hope.
There she will sing [b] as in the days of her youth,
as in the day she came up out of Egypt.
16 "In that day," declares the LORD,
"you will call me 'my husband';
God has a plan to restore us to Himself. We are the harlot, filled with sin, yet God looks upon us and desires us to call Him "husband." He desires to purify us and give us acres of hope.
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This was good Amy :-D. I liked it. Its true though, God desires to pull us out of the desert. He doesn't want us to stay in the dark and terrible places, but he wants to bring us out of them. We just have to trust in Him and allow Him to do it.
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