When the Lord provides help to discern a relentless wound in your soul that takes your breath away, I can describe it as a bruise you become accustomed to living with. You strive to fight to free yourself from the pain some days tirelessly; other days, it invades you.

I feel it strongly.

From one sister to another, I urge you to draw eagerly into your faith and love for the One that made you by every cosmic detailed fabric —you, whom He loves fiercely.

You are able but feel utterly incapable. You are not alone, but the loneliness is overwhelming. You are high and mighty in His Power but feel small and weak. You are exquisitely and beautifully made, but you feel like ashes.

Your strength to overcome this burden that is ever present never appears to perish. But Jesus knows your capacity and what emotions to shed away for a resurrected spirit to lead you on the promising path full of quantity, expectancy, and delight.

I encourage you to stay intimate and close to Him. He prepares to supply us with all we lack. Things don't always move at the pace we want or expect, or sometimes, we demand in our cries to Him.

Over time, I have learned to be patient and keep my thoughts in spirit, even though it's hard. My flesh can eat away at me. Since surrendering to Christ, I have always been hungry for more peace, and He more than provides. He becomes your armor against the opposition. The other day, I had to pull my Bible out hurriedly to Ephesians 6 and pray it out loud numerous times, and I journaled it again. I could emerge into His light out of the darkness deep within. I am grateful that He still saves me day after day. Let Him do this, will you? He is the one who remains deeply concerned about your heart. It gets easier each time, and you learn something that you never would imagine in times like these if you listen to the truth that He whispers.

Friends, my affliction is loneliness. It latches on other thresholds, sometimes far and wide. It creeps in without my understanding.

Look at Isaiah 42:16 below. I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide them; I will turn the darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth. These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them.

See the picture, look at it, and fill in your limitations and wounds. Moment by moment. Jesus unbinds ___________.

He will free us, indeed.

In this verse, we are able to see that the Sovereignty of God has brought redemption from the Holy One, who accomplished the promise of salvation.

To truly appreciate salvation, you must endeavor to embody its true purpose.

Such a beautiful welcome to His Kingdom to live by His ways, with sin not making you perish with treasures and all possibilities meant only for you. This concept signifies the importance of safeguarding His Children in various forms. I, for one, am still discovering how to understand all these forms by simply walking with Him moment by moment.

God's Holiness makes me more aware of my sin, understanding that the One, anointed King, who was only a servant, lived a perfect life on earth with his Father God leading His Way and only to save us from our lack of worth as he died so unjustly. He will not leave me. The Father did not leave His Son. I am not alone. My rigid nature has tons of promise and possibility to live here and now through Him, even with my heart being lonely and anxious to find out how to live in this world through His presence. We can witness God's Word's unfolding and the relationship He brings to you and me.

Christ in us is an extraordinary treasure. 

Together, let us continue on this glorious journey of faith, guided by the Lord at every turn.

You and I are His Beloved,

One day at a time, my cup remains to overflow. Kristie~

I highly recommend the Parable of the Sower in Matthew 13 for further study.