Sometimes I can get very discouraged…whether it's a bad day, a poor choice, something that someone else has done to me or just flat out things not going the way I think they should that sends me to that pit, it's still a horrible place to be. And even worse when we decide to camp out there…it starts to feel impossible to get out of. Throughout the years I have learned to look to the ways God loves and blesses me during these hard times. They are all around us, if we would just stop for a moment to see.
Romans 5:8 (NKJV) 8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 8:37-39 (NKJV) 37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. 38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
God gave up His only son to die for us; for sinners when He was not one Himself! Now that is the ultimate showing of love that can never be duplicated. These verses assure us that nothing can separate us from His love. We can also see the little, everyday, things all around us.
God's love shines through for me when I see that He has blessed me to be a part of five beautiful children lives even when they are not with me all the time. He loves on me when I come home from work and hear the thundering of my children's feet running to the front door to greet me and the many times throughout the day I hear those sweet words I love you from them. He shows me He loves me when my husband tells me that I am the most compassionate, forgiving and loving person he has ever known. His love shines through when I watch my husband and son in the back yard playing ball together and my girls are drawing or reading in the house.
Knowing that the enemy tried to steal and destroy my marriage and family and yet we still stand is an ever present blessing of His unconditional love and faithfulness. Looking at my oldest and seeing her passion for God and her friends around her to meet Him is a blessing that puts me to tears often. The people that God has placed in my life to show me support, encouragement and love is a blessing that I thank Him daily for. Knowing that God will never leave me and is always listening is an unmatchable love that can't be described with mere words, but I will try to thank Him through my own life as a sacrifice to Him everyday.
Sometimes when we are discouraged we need to learn to encourage ourselves and remember all the blessings and ways that He loves us. Think on those things, thank Him for those things and Praise His name because without Him we will always find ourselves in that pit.
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