He Never Lets Go

So I've been wanting to post but it always seemed mixed up, like jumping from subject to subject, but I thought I'd try to combine it all...sorry if this seems a bit scattered...

One song that I absolutely love is called "You Never Let go" by Matt Redman. I just love that song so much and it always brings lots of peace and comfort to me. You've probably heard it, but just incase, here are the lyrics:

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death

Your perfect love is casting out fear

And even when I'm caught in the middle of the storms of this life

I won't turn back, I know You are near

PreChorus:

And I will fear no evil, for my God is with me

And if my God is with me, whom then shall I fear?

Whom then shall I fear?

Chorus:

Oh no, You never let go, through the calm and through the storm

Oh no, You never let go, In every high and every low

Oh no, You never let go Lord, You never let go of me

Verse 2:

And I can see a light that is coming for the heart that holds on

A glorious light beyond all compare

And there will be an end to these troubles,

but until that day comes,

We'll live to know You here on the earth

Bridge:

Yes, I can see a light that is coming for the heart that holds on,

And there will be an end to these troubles, but until that day comes,

Still I will praise You, still I will praise You

I love the thought of that, that He never ever lets go of us, no matter what. But most of all, I love the truth of that. It brings so much assurance as does Romans 8:38-39: For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 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.

I so love those verses and go back to them often.

Oh, and thank you all so much for all the encouraging messages left on my last post. You know how I was talking about longing for Heaven? Well, I still do, but I don't want you to get the wrong idea. It's not like I cry on my bed all day because I want it so bad. Yes, I really do want it and can't wait until we are all there, but I also know that this is all part of God's plan. I also know that there are way to many people out there who have yet to come to know Jesus. I certainly would rather wait awhile, and have them come to Heaven with us. Afterall, once we get there we will be there for eternity. But I still am really excited about us all going there, and I am so thankful that the Lord has actually made me excited to go. Before there wasn't excitement, there was a lot of fear, but now God's replacing that fear with hope and faith. God is good!

In my church group we are going to start studying the apologetics. I am very, very excited about this as I am sure it will be awesome. So then when people ask us about our faith, we not only will tell them what we believe in, but why we believe in it. So I am very excited about this. We will even have a guy, who will be acting as though he is an Atheist, but actually is a Christian, come in and we will have a debate! I am definitely going to be doing some studying beforehand! I think it will be a lot of fun as well as a big blessing...

I thought I'd close with a poem I wrote a couple months back. And the funny thing is, a couple days after I wrote it, I realized I had also written something exactly one 1 year before. I wrote this one Feb. 11 of 08 and the other one was Feb. 11 of 07. I don't know, I just thought that was kind of cool since I didn't even know that until after I had written this. I actually still have not given it a title, I normally think of one right away, but I haven't really thought of one yet. Anyway, here it is:

In my Father's arms, that's where I am

In the safety of His plan, is where I stand

In the midst of the rain, His light does shine

Gently touching my heart, saying "You are Mine"

In the quiet of the morning, His face I seek

He is my Savior, my strength when I'm weak

In the stillness of the night, the world fast asleep

Jesus smiles to my heart, holds me while I weep

In the twinkling of an eye, I'll see my Maker's face

Overwhelmed by His love, amazed by His grace

Journey of Life

"The Long Road Home" as you can see is the title of my new blog. After thinking and praying about what the name should be, I thought of that. Now maybe some of you who are as nutty (in a good way of course) about Little House on the Prairie as I am, think that I stole that title from the name of one of the episodes. But no, as much as I love that show, I did not name this blog after it.

I got the name as I was alone, having some quiet time with God. I was feeling really blue, I was feeling homesick. Homesick for Heaven. I thought how this life is just like a long, sometimes very long, road. And we are on our way home, home to Jesus and all the glory that awaits. So if you ever had a day or days like me, when you're so world weary and crying to God, asking Him, "are we almost there?", you know how hard it is. It's hard to wait for something you want so much, but I encourage you to do the next best thing besides being in Heaven with Him, which is spending time with Him. That's what helped me. And just let Jesus do the driving on this journey of life, and if you do, you'll eventually get to where you're going, you'll get to Heaven. There may be some road bumps along the way, some ups and downs and twists and turns, but as long as you hang tight to God, you'll make it.

Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it. 1 Corinthians 9:24

So I guess this is my first post. I will try to make the next ones more interesting, but I thought I should explain why exactly I chose that name for the blog.

May God bless you all!