Precious!

I have a confession to make. I am addicted to sugar. It's true! I love to eat sweets and I love to have my Caribou coffee. But the thing is that all these years I have been wasting away my body and now I'm on the verge of becoming a diabetic. I have to learn how to end my sugar addiction and I have to learn it fast!

But the thing is that it's not all about quitting sugar. It's about facing the reality that I am too precious to let a little health issue get in the way of me being all that God wants me to be. I have been letting my selfish desires be of higher importance than what God desires for me.

Maybe you're like me. Maybe you have an addiction. Now I know it might not be an addiction to sugar but an addiction is still an addiction. The truth is that your wasting your life away and not allowing God to use you to your true potential.

What is that true potential? That true potential is living a life full of ALL the promises that God gave to us in His Word. That true potential is realizing that you are a beautiful and perfect gem to God that was so expensive it cost God His Son. God wants you to glow with the radiance of God's love, and He wants you to grow to love Him more and more each and every day.

You are so precious to Him. He sees your worth and you know what He says? He says "My precious Diamond, I love you!!!"

God gave up so much just for us to realize that we are truly precious. God has fearfully (He is in awe at us!!!!!!) and wonderfully made us - each unique and each valuable. Isn't that great that we are valued?!!!!! Isn't that wonderful that we are precious?!!!!!!!

It is because God loves us so much that His love that He lavishes on us makes us pure, perfect, and precious. We are precious to Him! - and NEVER forget that!!!!!

The Light Beacon

Every now and then things happen in life that cause us hurt, or struggle, or go through trials. Sometimes you even feel like a cargo ship being constantly thrown around by the sea. No matter how much effort you put in you still drift off course. You eventually feel completely lost and you feel like you'll forever be out in the middle of this storm. Then out of nowhere, but just in time, you see a light. A light that tells you "This is the right path to take. This is how I'll steer you clear of danger. This is how I'll keep you safe." It's the lighthouse high up on the rocky cliff. It comes to your rescue and safely guides you into the port.

The storm of life can be like this. You feel like that cargo ship and you fear that you'll never make it out alive. But if we trust God then we can know that God will always become our light beacon to guide us through the storm and bring us out safely.

God will always be there for you, and He never leaves you even if it's you who runs the other direction. God saved Jonah from the belly of the whale. God saved Shadrack, Meshiak, and Abendigo from the fiery furnace. God saved David from Goliath. But you know what, they also believed that God would save them. They believed that God would always be helping them in life and would never leave their side. They believed that God saves.

Next time when you become that cargo ship remember that God saves and that you can trust in Him to become that lighthouse at the right moment, and send out its light beacon to steer you clear of the rocky cliffs - to deliver you safely into the harbor.

Blessings!!!!!