longing for this. 🙇🏼♀️
“Hold fast to His promises and trust that He is good.”
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alivinghope
read His word to know His promises :)
“You can’t go back and change the beginning but you can start where you are and change the ending.”
— C.S. Lewis
“Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing” Luke 23:34.
Even in His agony, Jesus’ concern was for the forgiveness of those who counted themselves among His enemies. He asked the Father to forgive the thieves on the cross who jeered and made fun of Him, one of whom went on to accept His love and mercy (Luke 23:32-33, 39-43). He asked the Father to forgive the Roman soldiers who had mocked Him, spit on Him, beat Him, yanked out His beard, whipped Him, put a crown of thorns on His head, and nailed Him cruelly to the cross. Still they personally held no ill will towards Him. They were simply following orders. This was how they normally treated condemned men and they believed that He truly deserved it. They didn’t know that they were killing the Son of God (1 Corinthians 2:8).
Most importantly, on the cross, Jesus was providing forgiveness for all those who would ever believe in Him (Matthew 20:28). The cross didn’t kill Jesus. The Romans didn’t kill Jesus. The Sadducees and Pharisees didn’t kill Jesus. Jesus willingly gave up His earthly life for the sins of His own (Ephesians 2:8-9). He paid the penalty for the sins that we commit in our ignorance (and even the ones we’ve committed deliberately). In forgiving us, Jesus fulfilled yet another Old Testament prophecy (Isaiah 53:12f). He also made a reality of His own preaching. He had said, “love your enemies” (Matthew 5:44); now He was proving it.
.The beauty of the Bible is that it reveals God’s forgiveness, available to us through Christ and exemplified in Jesus’ sacrificial death on the cross (John 3:16-17). When we come to Christ in faith and repentance as a result of His drawing us to Himself (John 6:44), He says of us, “Father, forgive them,” and He does!
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but please let your self cry and feel and hurt. let the pain leave your body. the longer it stays there, the more it will hurt you.
“In any given moment we have two options: To step forward into growth or to step back into safety.”
— Abraham Maslow (via quotefeeling)
There's no lovesick you won't heal
There's no desperate you won't fill
I am falling deeper still for You
There is no desperate He won’t fill. He can’t even deny a heart that is desperate. Nothing else is satisfying enough. Nothing is filling enough. We are just going to keep wanting more: clothes, makeup, alcohol, money, diets, drugs, friends, romance, adventure. I am not saying that Jesus isn’t in some of those things, but those alone won’t fill. There is a longing in every one of us for something deeper, for something to fill us, for someone to know us just right, for something to last. There is a longing in us to know who made us, who is able to reach our depths and touch them with love. No other human or activity can do that except Jesus, the one who made you.
“For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.”
— Ephesians 6:12-13