Greatness

The breaking of the heart produces the fragrance of love and compassion. How does this truth come about I cannot fully explain but I know if I stay in His love and hang out with my beloved I will be changed. I put my trust in what is truth and the truth is this: God is preparing me for greatness. I am not talking about what this world perceives as greatness. It is not about money, power or beauty. I cannot buy it online or in a store. It comes by humbling myself before the King. I am talking about greatness of loving myself and loving other people who need to be loved. He placed His gifts in me even before I was born and there has been a process of accepting how He made me. This heart of mine has been broken by relationships I have had in my journey. Christ comes and takes these broken pieces and mends and loves me into a new place of greatness called love and compassion. He willingly went to the cross so this could happen in the secret and hidden places within my heart. This greatness is mine, freely given, and I receive the wonderment of His kingdom and it brings life into the dead places I have tried to hide from him. Love and compassion are married inside of my broken heart and now I feel less pain and more of His greatness in me. Greatness to achieve a call to become me, fully and completely and uniquely me! That is real truth, to accept the good the bad and the ugly that I have been and now to embrace all that is me. This mountain I have been fighting against is now mine to hold inside of me as I walk out a life of greatness that is called love.

Restoration

Restoration is the word of the day! A couple of nights ago I was studying 2 Kings 8 and I saw a Wow moment! It's how the widow left her home and land for 7 years. "And it came to pass at the seven years' end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry unto the king for her house and for her land. Then the king did this for her... he appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, "Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now." She didn't do a thing except to go before the king. He did it all for her because he wanted her to receive. She was granted complete favor not in what "she did" but what the king wanted to do for her. I think we get sidetracked into thinking we have to do something to get God to move when in fact, God is moved because Christ did something for us. This widow did not toil in the field to produce fruit for seven years. She wasn't working the land but she still received the fruit of that land. The Lord gives us what we need and even the overflow where we did not expect it. Present yourself before the King and you will see His goodness and His love for you.