Last week I was driving through a town I spent a short amount of time living in. I've lived in my home town my entire life except I did spend a year in a town that never felt like home. Which was the town I was in that morning.
For most of us we are not born into a Christian family or at least a family who is truly seeking after the heart of God. That only means that for most of us we have experienced alot of heartache because of stupid choices we have made. So you can understand me when I say I wasn't in a good place before I found Jesus. My stupid choices led me to a place in my life I thought I'd never be, a place where growing up I never dreamed of.
My dreams consisted of a husband who loved me and our many children and a family that enjoyed being and doing what families do and down that path hoping we'd find Jesus together. I lived thinking that although I wasn't serving the Lord, surely He would make things right in my fairy tale.
I shortly found out that bad choices paid consequences and my fairy tale wasn't a fairy tale, it was really a nightmare that I couldn't drink away or wake up from.
I share all this to give you a backdrop of the place I drove past, the place I called home for a year but that was just it's name. It really felt like HELL, a place that was far away from God.
There was a time in my life I couldn't drive past it without feeling sick and trying to block out memories of hurts and struggles. It definitely was not a memorial of great rememberance but rather a place of sadness and heartache, a place I would try everything to do to block out.....
God does some amazing things in our lives when we fully seek after Him. He with His amazing love takes our deep heart hurts and turns them into blessings. He takes our memories and turns them into memorial stones.
That place that was once hell on earth is now a place of memorial. That place that felt so far from the Lord was where I found Him ♡ From the depths of my soul I cried out in utter misery and pain. My sin made me sick, my choices and shame drew me to the foot of the cross. He heard my heart and reached out and delivered me from this world of chaos that I had created!
Last week as I drove past that house I raised my hands and said "praise you Jesus, you are a good God". My parents and I were able to reflect where I was and where I am now. Rags for riches and ashes for beauty.
Sweet friends, nothing I have done has made me who I am today, it is all HIM. I simply humbled myself and cried out to the living God for help.
Today if you have a memorial stone of a place where Jesus saved you, then friend you have a reason to be joyful and walk in peace!!
Maybe today you find yourself in that place called hell on earth in which I once lived in. May I encourage you to cry out from the depths of your soul. I know He will rescue, redeem and restore your soul.
Surely The one true God desires for all to be saved! Do you desire to be saved!?
Now instead of a fairy tale I live in the reality that I was a princess who needed to be rescued and loved. And truly I am loved by a king who is everything I need Him to be. In return how can I not offer my entire self back to Him.
