Marissa's Choice

                                 First and foremost :

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    or the rich boast in their riches.

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But those who wish to boast

    should boast in this alone:

that they truly know me and understand that I am the Lord

    who demonstrates unfailing love

    and who brings justice and righteousness to the earth,

and that I delight in these things.

    I, the Lord, have spoken!"

Two weeks ago, I felt drained. As though I was fighting battles on all fronts, for a month and failing at them...ALL.

Now, I look up the battles are won & gone, my goal check list that I made MONTHS ago are checked off. The online magazine that customers can shop directly from AND could incorporate this blog on is established.

                                   

                                        God checked them all off!

I'm looking at the papers like:

                    "wait....Father, You just checked off my entire list. You've even bypassed some of the goals that I THOUGHT were required accomplishments, that I THOUGHT I was too inadequate to even get to the position I'm trying to reach. 

Yet,  here You are " CHECK, CHECK, CHECK, Don't need that. We can skip that. Let's not burn that bridge we'll used it later. I've qualified you. CHECK, CHECK . OK. It's GOOD" "

Still, I'm here in shock like, "He really just did all that." "WHY is He so good to me?" "I thought it was going to take years!"

And then God uses someone else to tell me, "What would take you a lifetime to accomplish, I can do in a day."

"But you must not forget this one thing, dear friends: A day is like a thousand years to the Lord, and a thousand years is like a day." - 2 Peter 3:8

So here I am, astonished. Beyond grateful. Nothing less than thankful for His goodness. His kindness. His mercy. His grace. His love. He, Himself, in all that He is.

I write this because, I finally understand glory. God's glory.

There's NONE like Him. He's the embodiment of the definition of love. 

Yes, even if He didn't do such things, my thankfulness is the same. 

My youngest brother got saved recently.

He's registered for classes. He's ready to move on his own.

He looks to me as an example of how to look to Christ.

Our home is our first ministry.

I pray in Jesus' name that he continues headstrong with Christ. That he falls in love so deeply, it soothes and removes the pain he's endured.

Soon. It's happened with me.

All Glory To God our Father in Heaven.

  

When He's so amazing , He loves you more than you love yourself.
That the nature of His love nurtures all that was put to sleep by worldly scars.

When His hand is heavy up on you and He moves you across the board of this world like the Queen in chess. When your enemy temporarily makes you feel inadequate- He shows you, He can move you anywhere He deems. He's above all . He is all.

He's my life. The love of everything that keeps you alive.

When this world has executed you more than once.
When the people of this world who breaks the innocence in you, who breaks the joy in you, the inability to properly love.
With God, I become kintsugi.
His love, worth more than gold,makes the millions of pieces of me whole.
When you lose a dream and dont realize it until the last minute at 25, where you feel there cant possibly be more. you cant possibly do anything great past here.

Then in a dream in the middle of the night, He opens you up and in this hidden path, this hidden area of your heart, He planted a new seed.
It was being watered.
When you're down to doubt, He shows you it's sprout.
There. A new purpose.
A new dream to dream.

How great is our GOD.
How He strategically had Moses hidden in the basket and kept Him.
How He brought Christ naturally in the world - and fulfilled the purpose.
Had the enemy knew, He would not have been after Christ.
He would not have let Christ take the keys of hell and defeat death.

There's always a way. Unknown to the enemy, unknown to man only seen when God reveals.
 Job 27:8  No bird of prey knows that hidden path, no falcon’s eye has seen it.
 Job 27:21 It is hidden from the eyes of every living thing, concealed even from the birds in the sky.
IF the enemy knew this new he wouldn't have tried to kill me, take my dream, diminish my purpose.

GREAT.  GREAT is my Father

Psalm 113:5 Who is like unto the LORD our God, who dwelleth on high,