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Update

Howdy! Don't know if anyone really reads this but here I am again! It's been a while since I've posted (mainly because I just forget). However, I am here with a new post! And it seems to actually be my first post in 2022! Yay! You can still expect irregular posting from me.

A Lament

I'm going to just pour out my heart a little bit. I feel very grieved recently. There are just so many things in this world that are getting me down. 1.) There have just been so many mass shootings reported in the news recently. It makes me sad and also a little fearful. The world is broken and I can't fix it, which is probably a good thing. 2.) Roe V. Wade was overturned, praise God! Innocent lives will be saved because of that decision. Yet, my heart is unsetteled because of the response from pro-abortion supporters. I've seen so many dark things float around the internet coming from that side (I know it's not all of them, just the extremists) and it makes me plunge deeper into grief. And all of this just kind of culminates into a fear of our Western world crumbling and dying. Yet, there's a part of me that sees the good if that were to happen. I can honestly say that God would use that time to truly strengthen me, and all of His Children. However, I would much rather not have that happen. Jesus, my King is much stronger than I. God in the flesh was not only unafraid of the cup He must drink, but He drank it willingly. It is because Jesus' sacrifice that I can have hope in these hard times. His blood washes away my sins, His ressurection defeated death and in doing so secures me eternal life. I bring all this to you, my God, and ask for your divine grace. Lead my thoughts back to you by the power of the Spirit of God that you have gifted to dwell in me. No matter what, Jesus will be waiting for me. Whether the end of my road will be me starving to death in an obliterated landscape after civil war, or comfortably passing in my sleep when I'm 80. Jesus will be waiting. Father, assure me of this, that when you begin a good work in someone you most definitely bring it to completion. And the work you have started in me will lead to the same. Father, protect my heart, heal my thoughts, and strengthen my faint heart to stand for your Son Jesus in any situation. Amen!