When What You Believe Is True, Isn’t
“Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour” (1 Peter 5:8).
Come back to Me. You don’t have to feel far away. You don’t have to believe you are disappointing Me.
There are whispers you hear that aren’t from Me. There are whispers to lure you away, that want to pull you far from the place I have for you, the place I am with you, right now.
Listen close: You are with Me, my love, and when you hear whispers that say I am far away, that say you aren’t measuring up, ask Me what I think before you believe them. I’m never going to ignore you when you come to Me with a heart fully open. I’m never going to turn you away, and I love it when you trust Me with your every thought.
Let Me hold your thoughts, your dreams, your fears. Let Me contain them, gather them up with my hands so you don’t feel crushed by their weight.
I place my hand upon your heart, the beating of your mortal body, while your soul, your spirit, is connected with Me. You are here and you are there—your body breathing air I breathed while I walked there, your soul breathing in my Spirit as you walk here, with Me. For here, you sit next to Me, claiming your place among the saints and lifting your voice and soul in praise.
My daughter, I wrap you up in my truth, and you are free. Choose my truth over whispers that call you away and you will stay in my peace. You will stay and know my voice more deeply. For I have given you everything you need to discern the false from truth.
And pray for more truth to fill your heart. My truth is your battle armor: My community helps you hear Me and know Me; My words steer you and feed you and lift you from darkness to light; My love is not a distant, theoretical love, but a fierce, I-am-here-and-I’ve-got-you love.
For I am love. I am love.
Stay close to Me and the whispers will quiet. Stay close to Me and I will rise up for you. But to be rescued, I ask you to believe in the rescuer. I am steadfast and present, my darling.
Look up.
Look up.
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“God revealed Himself to me as a young child through music. Music became my lifeline. Through its ebb and flow, it was medicine to me, and I knew there was beauty in the world. Because of music, I began to grow the seeds of understanding God loved me in spite of my surroundings.” —Bonnie Keen, award-winning recording artist, author, and host of the Women Who Dare to Believe podcast. Read her interview on Rapt to learn how she loves to bring “a little bit of church into a club setting.” I love her heart for Jesus, and I think you will, too!
I’ve learned so much from C.S. Lewis—how to notice beauty, how to invite imagination into faith, how to sit with God in the pain. Now, I need to add one more to the list: how to give thanks for everything, even the very thatness of the things I tend to take for granted. This article quotes Lewis as saying: “Jenkin seemed to be able to enjoy everything; even ugliness. I learned from him that we should attempt a total surrender to whatever atmosphere was offering itself at the moment; in a squalid town to seek out those very places where its squalor rose to grimness and almost grandeur, on a dismal day to find the most dismal and dripping wood, on a windy day to seek the windiest ridge. There was no Betjemannic [detached and somewhat condescending] irony about it; only a serious, yet gleeful, determination to rub one’s nose in the very quiddity of each thing, to rejoice in its being (so magnificently) what it was.” I want more of that, sister. Do you?
My heart needed this today (and maybe yours does, too?): “Prayer does not consist in an effort to obtain from God the things which are necessary for this life. Prayer is an effort to lay hold of God Himself, the Author of life, and when we have found Him who is the source of life and have entered into communion with Him, then the whole of life is ours and with Him all that will make life is perfect.” → From At the Master’s Feet by Sadhu Sundar Singh. Read the full excerpt here—may it give you a new perspective on prayer and a fresh love for the Savior.
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