My Holiday Wish For You

I have had a season of pressing into God, staying on His lap or right by His side.  If you had been watching me you would have thought I was walking through life as usual.  But somehow, He has given me the grace to go through the motions of life, all the while, never leaving His presence.  There are times when He will call you to Him for deep fellowship.  He knows what you are going through or what you are about to go through and He desires for you to get everything you need to be victorious, from Him.

Even in the toughest of times we can experience a deep joy that is unshaken.  This past year, I went through something that shook me to my very core and threatened to crack my foundation.  It is not anything that I am able to share at this point, but suffice it to say, at a time when I felt so completely alone and desolate, He called me to His side and stayed with me, literally walking out my days with me.  I felt His presence with every step and every breath I took.  He never left me alone nor forsaken.  I now know what "joy unspeakable" means.  At a time when there was no joy to be found (to the human eye), I was flooded with it.  When terror and anger and confusion would try to clutch at my heart with full on attack, I breathed in the very essence of Him...peace, joy, calm and love would flood in and chase away anything that was not of Him.

As the holidays are approaching, so many people struggle to find meaning and purpose, to know why they are supposed to be celebrating, searching for a reason to smile.  I'm here to tell you, if that is you, your reason for celebrating and smiling is that someone loves you so much that He longs to spend time with you everyday!  He waits for you to call on Him.  He makes beautiful things out of what we see as ugly and wrong!  He has blessings He wants to bestow on you that you can't even imagine!

This is my holiday wish for you.  I would encourage you to rise up, lift your arms to Him, and let Him love on you, give you a reason to smile and turn your hurts into something beautiful and whole.  Walk through the holidays with hope and peace and when you feel alone, go to Him and sit a while.  His grace and mercy will rain down on you and fill you with that "unspeakable joy". Don't ever doubt how precious and valuable you are to Him.  He is a place of safety and joy where He takes those things meant for your destruction and turns them into beautiful things for you.  I know this because I have seen Him do it in my life.

I would like for you to turn off the music player at the top right hand of this page so that you can listen to the video posted here.  It is a song by Gungor, called Beautiful Things.




Today I am linking up with Shanda Oakley over at A Pause Along the Path.  Hop on over there to see what others are saying about what God is doing in their lives!


From His lap,